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PLAY: 'K2' a slick production
The Lake City Playhouse is serving us all a treat with Patrick Meyers’ play, “K2.” The K2 Expedition Team members, movingly performed by Todd Kehne and George Green, reminded me of 3 things:
SPENDING: Vote out 'deadbeats'
In light of the growing problems with our federal government, I think it’s time to throw many of our elected officials out of office and charge them with malpractice. Many of them are not there for the good of the …
CANCER: Progress made vs. pancreatic
President Barack Obama made history in the fight against pancreatic cancer by signing into law the Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act, formerly known as the Pancreatic Cancer Research and Education Act. Thanks to the…
BOOK: Details cost of hatred
I’ve finally published my book on Amazon.com. It’s titled, “Hate Behind Blue Eyes.” I really want Coeur d’Alene to read it. I honestly believe it’s worthy of their time. I couldn’t care less about any money recover…
HOSPICE: Fine was an atrocity
Anyone who has ever volunteered with one of our local charities, sacrificed financially with donations, or been involved with fund raising projects for various projects such as KMC Festival of Trees, Kroc Center, o…
PLOWS: Kudos for job well done
Giving a BIG shout out to all the snowplow drivers who so diligently and carefully plow our residential streets as well as city and highway. THANKS!
ABORTION: Rally
Welcome to 2013 — and what a mixed bag it already is. We’re either on our way to economic recovery or not; we’re either on our way to communism or not; we’re either on our way to universal, single payer health care…
GUNS: Deal with real problems
I am writing in response to Jim Spurr’s letter entitled “Don’t let the NRA bully you.” I agree with his statement that this is a monumental problem. However he then he goes on to give the most simplistic solution—b…
Best businesses? You tell us
Best of North Idaho is just a newspaper-sponsored popularity contest.
MORMON: Strength of faith's position
In the World Book Dictionary Volume 2 page 1672 under Protestant it states:
GUNS: Well-armed, no fear
Well America, here we go again. The liberals want some of our guns. After every tragedy we face this subject. I am an NRA member, and am proud of it. My guns have not killed anyone yet, and probably won’t. I am a v…
GUNS: Liberals are firing blanks
I don’t feel bullied by the NRA. I do feel bullied by liberals who believe they know what is “best” for us. Jim Spurr’s letter was not only NOT informative, it was inaccurate. The number of criminal deaths from gun…
TURTLES: It's a north-south thing
In response to Mr. Porter’s concern about the safety issues involved in the Clemson University student’s research on box turtles and drivers, as a many-decades ago Clemson grad, I can assure him that the skill set …
CHRISTIAN: What it really means
There was a time, in the not distant past, that the first thing I read in The Press was the Letters to the Editor. The caustic content of many of this past year’s political and religious editorials have taken their…
BULBS: Dim motives behind changes
So they’ve taken away our 100 and now 75 watt incandescent light bulbs and are soon to eliminate the 60s and 40s. But does anyone know or care that, according to the scientists at a prestigious midwestern universit…