STORY: Apology is appropriate

I am writing in regard to Joan and Bill Gundlach, although there has now been a closure with this tragedy.

OBAMA: Help him 'go home'

Recently our Community Organizer in Chief Obama gave a speech to “Murder Inc.,” better known as Planned Parenthood, praising them for what they do. In the same speech, he insulted at least half the population of th…

VETS: Here's a call to duty

Veterans need our help. They need craft supplies, money, anything we can help with. You may donate blankets for those in wheelchairs, DVDs, CDs, good music, keyboards, yarn, cross stitch and needles and things that…

COUNTY: Focus on public defenders

I commend the County Commissioners for seriously considering a study of the public defenders’ system. My recent viewing of the documentary “Gideon’s Army,” previewed at the Human Rights

CDA: Careful with 'dress code'

The Coeur d’Alene City Council is considering an anti-gay bias ordinance, modeled after one passed in Boise. They claim this is in the spirit of equal rights for all, but in reality the rights gained are at the exp…

NIC: Support for event center

Friday’s Editorial in the Coeur d’Alene Press asks subscribers to help the North Idaho College Board make important decisions concerning the location of the professional-technical campus and the school’s involvemen…

DOCKS: Replace them at Boothe

I would like to suggest that the Coeur d’Alene City Council collaborate with the Kootenai County Board of Commissioners to replace the public docks and pilings the county removed from Boothe Park. This would add a …

NIC: Move Mohammad, and not the mountain

As a professional-technical faculty member at North Idaho College, I feel I have special insight to having technical programs off campus. NIC’s welding program was moved off campus in December 1995 to the Industria…

UIDAHO: A legacy of leading

As the Associated Press article that ran in the Coeur d’Alene Press on April 30 aptly pointed out regarding the departure of President Nellis, the last two University of Idaho presidents — Duane Nellis and Tim Whit…

Spot check is a life saver

Because of the warm, sunny spring weekend, there was no shortage of beaming, sunburned faces at work on Monday.

RAZZETO: Key to good governance

NEMEC: Great doc, ideal trustee

I would like you to consider as you vote absentee or plan to vote on May 21 election day, to choose Dr. Neil Nemec for one of the two openings to serve on the Kootenai Hospital District (Kootenai Health). Dr. Nemec…

REGAN: Not my idea of a trustee

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HAZEL: Vested and fully involved

SEDDON: 'Bored' with education

We liberals of North Idaho should endorse Ann Seddon. Ann is a candidate we can count on. With Ann, we will always know how she will vote. Regardless of the issue, Ann will have already made up her mind, based on h…