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Opinion

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Updated 1 month, 1 week ago

OPINION: Junkyard in the sky?

Your views of the havens at night might be interrupted by non-heavenly objects passing by your binoculars.

Updated 1 year, 10 months ago
LIBRARIES: Is this what voters wanted?

At the Community Library Network Board meeting in Athol on Nov. 21, the board members decided to choose Tony Ambrosetti to be the new trustee. Ambrosetti is far less qualified than Michelle Lippert, the candidate p…

Updated 1 year, 10 months ago
ELECTION: We’re all Americans

My Turn today by Caroline Griffin may be true in many ways, however, there were many untruths on both sides.

Updated 1 year, 10 months ago
EDITORIAL: Fairgrounds future is boosted, not guaranteed

County's memo of understanding is encouraging enough, apparently, to reassure potential donors

Updated 1 year, 10 months ago
KOHBERGER: What about the families’ rights?

Here I go again. Where are the rights of the families of the children that were murdered. Seems he is getting all the breaks.

Updated 1 year, 10 months ago
FAIRGROUNDS: Thanks to commissioners

I would like to thank the commissioners personally for deciding to keep the fairgrounds where it is.

Updated 1 year, 10 months ago
EDUCATION: Crusade against ignorance

There’s a Reason Why Idaho Ranks 50th in funding for education. You just need to ask yourself what can i do about it! Idaho has a rainy day fund of approximately $1.3 billion, yet they will not fully fund our publi…

Updated 1 year, 10 months ago
ARTICLE: Please report with care

I am writing to you in grief and in anger.

Updated 1 year, 10 months ago
HATRED AND FEAR: Work together instead

I need to respond to the hatred and fear coming from the local Democrats. Donald Trump was elected by the majority of the American people. Every poll taken for the last 6 months before the election said Americans b…

Updated 1 year, 10 months ago
ELECTION: Not really a landslide

In the wake of the recent presidential election, the words “mandate” and “landslide” are being used carelessly. In one example, a contributor to The Press recently called the results “a landslide victory” and just …

Updated 1 year, 10 months ago
COLUMNISTS: Out of touch

It is amazing to many of us how much time and space you give your two favorite know it all blow hards Jim Jones and Evan Koch. They both act as if they are God’s gift to your subscribers!

Updated 1 year, 11 months ago
EDITORIAL: We'll see how strong this bridge is

Legislators' visit could help provide what state needs most

Updated 1 year, 11 months ago
OPINION: Idaho’s water future is flowing in the right direction

To spend one’s life in agriculture is to be an optimist.

Updated 1 year, 11 months ago
MY TURN RESPONSE: The source of poison

Faye Higbee has a very short memory. She wrote about the presidential election in her My Turn column on Thursday, saying, “the whining leftists are doing what they did last time: throwing a hissy fit. The differenc…

Updated 1 year, 11 months ago
SCHOOL FUNDING: There must be a better way

The recent school levies have passed in some districts and failed in others. Funding the school districts needs in this method is a reoccurring pain in the neck.

Updated 1 year, 11 months ago
ELECTION: A collective sigh of relief

You are so right Mr. Grunsted. Why waste your time.