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SYRIA: Spells serious trouble
This is in regard to the letter from Carol Asher.
CORE: Percolates a bitter brew
When the states ventured into reviewing Common Core State Standards in 2010 for classroom use, they believed they would have control over curriculum, testing and teacher training. Nothing is further from the truth.
RACES: No reason to cut down trees
Hi my name is Ryan Eaton. I am 9 years old and I live on Lake Coeur d’Alene where they are going to put on the Diamond Cup. I think that they should not be putting it on because they are cutting down trees on the C…
VA HOSPITAL: Rude men can ruin visit
I have read the posts with regard to the Spokane VA Med Center, and here is my two cents worth. I am a nuclear test veteran from the Dominic 1 tests in the South Pacific in 1962 and receive my care through this VA …
ARCH: Somewhere under the rainbow
The Coeur d’Alene Resort is classy and has received worldwide acclaim. How will it explain to clientele the McEuen “rainbow” glowing entrance thought up by Howard Meehan, who had never even visited Coeur d’Alene? I…
SHOOTING: Shows disastrous trend
Sunday morning Wendy Woods and Eric Johnston left a friend’s house on their way to Wendy’s home. What happened when they got there is almost unbelievable. Eric was shot multiple times by police for questionable rea…
Roar for the hydros
We can think of only one thing better than a relaxing, get-the-kids-ready-for-school, last unofficial weekend of summer.
ARCH: Enough contrition already
Coeur d’Alene dutifully continues to atone for its past transgressions of bigotry and racism. Its latest act of contrition is the proposed rainbow arch to McEuen Field — a fine gesture of begging for forgiveness.
KING: Message is marching on
One hundred and fifty years ago, arguably America’s greatest citizen issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the “Negro” from the bondage of slavery and its attendant indignities and horror. After the Appomat…
TREES: A curious case of pruning
A couple years ago one of the trees along Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive (near Tony’s) toppled over halfway into the lake. After several months, I called the Idaho Recreation Department (the State Rec. Dept. maintenance …
GARDENS: Funded, not just raised
Don’t want to sound picky or arbitrary — but — the garden tour funded $12,000 in donations to local charities and scholarships — NOT raised those funds! A simple error that did not go unnoticed. This was one of our…
COUNCIL: No place for prayer
In response to Tom Hasslinger’s “Say a prayer” (Sept. 23), it is inappropriate for publicly elected officials — all of whom take an oath to uphold secular constitutions — to schedule prayer or open government proce…
SYRIA: U.S. should stay out
Unbelievably, all indications are that the United States government is positioning itself to move militarily against yet another sovereign Mid-East nation — once again, unconstitutionally and without provocation. S…
POSTAL: No taxes, no flyer
I was wondering, at what point in time did the object of your Sunday editorial criticism, the United States Postal Service, become “a tax supported federal agency?” Per the USPS website, Home Page, Who We Are, Post…
WALL: A story worth reading
With the traveling Vietnam war memorial in our area recently, I thought the short story “Heroes of the Vietnam Generation” by former Secretary of the Navy James Webb might be appropriate.