Opinion
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POT: Reasons to be alarmed
Recently “60 Minutes” (CBS News) did a 20-minute piece on the relationship between schizophrenia and young male shooters perpetuating horrifying and increasingly frequent mass shootings that are devastating our soc…
FACILITY: Loss a painful reality
I’ve been searching for a word to describe my reaction to the news that the “mental health facility went south.” Dismayed? Appalled at the lack of vision by our North Idaho legislators? Disgusted?
KINDNESS: Strikes again in Post Falls
My husband and I were having a nice supper at Denny’s in Post Falls about a week ago, when our waitress came over to us and told us that another gentleman in the restaurant had paid for our meal. To whomever that a…
VETERANS: How much is too much?
As House and Senate negotiators conference on their respective bills to revamp the Department of Veterans Affairs, many conservatives are taking note of the egregious mandatory spending proposal outlined in the ori…
CUBBIES: True blue and faithful forever
Enjoyed the column in Tuesday’s Press about the editor meeting Derrek Lee. I, too, am a lifelong Cubs fan growing up in middle Indiana, then living in Chicago for seven years (before lights in Wrigley stadium). My …
EDUCATION: Core of funding problem
A few weeks ago Mr. David Adler submitted a well written and thorough article advocating for increasing the education budget. He deserves 9 out of 10 points since he failed to address the issue of where to obtain t…
Higher standards for stronger Idaho
For the sake of the state's businesses and its economy, Idahoans should embrace Idaho Core Standards.
RULING: Free to practice religion
Planned Parenthood’s Karl Eastlund (The Press, 2 July 14) mourns the Supreme Court’s decision to allow freedom of religion. I’m sure it’s his honest misunderstanding and not abortion business related, so here are s…
FACILITY: Naysayers, help us understand
In the Thursday, June 26th issue of The Press, a story contained information about a Behavioral Health Community Crisis Center that is being constructed in Idaho Falls rather than in CDA. It appears much of the rea…
OBAMA: Wrath is well-deserved
Re: Gressler - Obama deserves scorn, not praise.
IRONMAN: Right way to do it
With regards to a few negative remarks about the Ironman triathlon ahtletic event recently held here in Coeur d'Alene, say what you want. At least Ironman 1) pays its bills, 2) gives back to the community (this yea…
OBAMA: That's not dew in your eyes
In the 1960s, Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev declared that Americans were so naive, the Russians could "Spit in their eyes and they would call it dew." I see that Mr. Dan Gressler has yet to wipe the dew from his e…
RULING: Here's another view
Hobby Lobby reality, not fiction.
United we stand for a strong USA
Editor's note: In what has become a Fourth of July holiday tradition, we're reprinting one of this newspaper's most popular editorials. This is the 12th anniversary of its first publication.
FACILITY: Local legislators failed
Regarding the front-page article “Mental health facility goes south”: