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STRANSKY: Has broad support
The latest campaign finance report shows that Cheryl Stransky has overwhelming support from both Democrats and Republicans. Stransky lists more than 110 individual donors from a broad spectrum: firefighters, police…
SHELTON: Keep him on the job
Please vote NO on the recall of our Mica Kidd Island Fire Commissioner, Chris Shelton. During the past few years, the department has grown and has changed in a positive way to provide services for a growing populat…
NESSE: For a better Idaho
They keep saying Idaho is “improving” but for four years straight we’ve been neck and neck with Mississippi as the lowest disposable income in the U.S. Poorly funded schools are the dying canary of a state where po…
BARBIERI: How he lost this vote
I see Vito Barbieri is running for re-election. My only contact with him was when I wrote him a letter and asked if he would be willing to sponsor a bill exempting food banks from sales tax on food they purchased t…
VOTE: Support these two bills
My great-great-grandfather, great-grandfather and grandfather all had milk cows on their farm. They and their family all lived healthy active lives well into their 90s. My father is now 88 and continued to have fre…
CRANE: Fiscally responsible
Idaho State Treasurer Ron Crane has earned $1.137 billion in gross interest earnings for the state of Idaho. This amount represents monies that the Idaho taxpayers did not have to furnish.
VOTE: But know your candidates
Over the last 50 years I have voted in almost every local, state and federal election because I feel it is my right and privilege to do so. Then, after the May primary, I read an interesting article in the Spokesma…
BIBLE: Frowns on gay marriage
I am a Christian, and while I readily confess that I do not speak for all Christians, I have a Biblical world-view in serious conflict with recent events in this country. Same-sex marriages are troubling on several…
ARFEE: Tale of two stories
I don’t know if it was intentional irony on your part or intentional sarcasm on Chief White’s part, but the dichotomy between the article “Officer takes a pay cut” and the article “Citizens to participate in use of…
TEACHER: That's how kids learn
Hats off and high fives to Melissa Giles, PE teacher at Skyway Elementary! Her creative use of pumpkins and kitchen scraps looked to be a great success with her students. These are the kinds of high interest activi…
BIBLE: It holds many answers
There are many debates in this country that are social in nature. The answers to all of these debates are in a book that is available to everyone, but most people do not want to read it. Everyone is talking about r…
VOTE: Democrats for real freedom
Beware the rhetorical flag of freedom being waved by the Republican party. Traditionally and today, Republicans take care of wealthy individuals and large corporations by providing them tax cuts and loopholes, leav…
SAVIORS: Here they come again
MacGregor family — thank you for divine intervention.
USPS: Fight privatization
Even in the 21st Century with all of the new technology available, the mail still does matter. It binds the country together with delivery service six days a week and in some larger cities parcel delivery seven day…
WRITER: Won't find sympathy here
This letter is directed to John Willard of Post Falls. Let me start by saying “contempt prior to investigation cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance.”