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MEDICAL: Let the patient decide
It’s my guess that each of you reading this letter would agree that decisions as to your medical/dental care rightly should be made by you, not your physicians. The Coeur d’Alene Press has warned us about scammers.…
PRESIDENT: Sir, time to go fish
I have been silent too long, and it seems common sense has gone out the window. Mr. President, you are growing a large group of voters with their hands out. “Give a man a fish to eat and when he gets hungry he will…
VANDALS: The Big Sky beckons
So who are the genius(es) who chose to make the Idaho Vandals football team the laughingstock of the country? Evidently Idaho can profit by being the perennial cream puff for the SEC and ACC and help fill their fou…
ENGLISH: Try it some time
In last Saturday’s paper there was an article that stated money won’t fix our schools. It was right. First you have to teach our children correctly.
INSURANCE: Why are you surprised?
I find it most interesting that the Republicans who have tried to eliminate insurance for 40 million Americans who will be covered by the Affordable Care Act are now so upset that about two million Americans who ma…
LIBERALS: Take that, progressives
Hearty congratulations and a standing ovation lasting at least 20 minutes to Doug Miller for his excellent Nov. 20, 2013, “My Turn” column. He has stated what I’ve been trying to say (in smaller increments) for the…
AUTUMN: Cheers for cleaning up
Street-Keepers! Hooray!
Thanksgiving food for thought
We read with sorrow the other day that John Ritterbach had died. He was only 68.
AUTUMN: City leaves a mess
Did you really expect our Coeur d’Alene city leaders to spend millions on the Kroc Center and tens of millions on the Mae McEuen baseball fields and have money to maintain our streets and dirt alleyway? Silly you i…
POEM: NOT YET ENDED
In the rustle of the leaves, a crispness of autumn air
CHANGE: It can start right here
For the “good of the people” is not protected by politicians. The “good of big money” is. Why? It’s simple: The big money interests pay for the political campaigns, not the common worker. Whose interests do you ser…
HEALTH CARE: A lie is still a lie
I would like to respond to a letter by Gary A. Edwards published Nov 14. The title of the letter is “Blame in the Wrong Direction,” the premise being it was OK for Obama to lie because the ends justify the means.
LAKES: Students lent a kind hand
We would like to publicly thank the Lakes Middle School student government volunteers who provided us with a wonderful fall clean-up service. The students raked our backyard leaves out to the front street, a task w…
FOOD: Here's a holiday travesty
This week, in the days before our usual holiday season of largesse and excess, comes news that employees of Walmart are gathering food donations for fellow low-paid “associates.” Included in these reports is the fa…
HOLIDAY: Key word is missing
We just received the Official U.S. Post Office “holiday” mailer. I was saddened, but not shocked, at the new “Holiday Stamps” printed for this year. A stamp that says “Kwanzaa,” a stamp that says “Hanukkah” and a t…