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You don't have to have kids at Hayden Meadows Elementary or even in the Coeur d'Alene School District to feel like you have a stake in tomorrow's school board meeting.
LAUNCH: More than meets eye
As a resident living in the Silver Beach Area in Coeur d’Alene for almost 30 years, I have some concerns regarding the city of Coeur d’Alene taking over the 5 miles of Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive.
DEFENSE: Keep America strong
A troubling story surfaced this week. I heard on the news that China is testing their latest, most advanced stealth fighter. This was troubling for two reasons: The Mideast unrest and demonstrations against America…
NIC: Ex-faculty endorsements
As retired instructors with 337 collective years of experience at North Idaho College, we strongly support the re-election of Judy Meyer and Mic Armon to the NIC Board of Trustees. Our recommendation is based on ou…
FARRIS: A vote for teamwork
With Jimmy Farris as a candidate for the U.S. Congress challenging Raul Labrador, we have a clear choice.
Together for Camp Easton
Divided they stood.
Honor the absentee vote
For some of us, few things are as satisfying as flexing our American citizenship muscles. And when it comes to that, watching a completed ballot slip into the ballot box while an election worker announces that so-a…
PYP: Statement was a disgrace
Tom Hamilton’s admission of personal values of intolerance (“PYP Back in the Spotlight,” Sept. 19) echoes the small-mindedness and xenophobia of North Idaho’s national reputation of 20 years ago. It is such a disap…
PYP: Vitriol weakens editorial
Last spring during the heated Recall, I attended a lecture at the Coeur d’Alene library by a constitutional lawyer for which Mike Patrick was the emcee. That week Mr. Patrick wrote an editorial echoing and extollin…
LABRADOR: Has courage aplenty
Your CAST AN INFORMED VOTE editorial asserts Congressman Raul Labrador lacks political courage. I think we both know you don’t believe that for a second. The congressman has challenged you personally face-to-face a…
PYP: Growing minds is good
I have been reading with interest the news articles and letters about the PYP program at Hayden Meadows school. Based on what I have read, it seems to be a mind expansion program for younger students. One of the sc…
PRESS: Sold out for PYP
Mike Patrick argues that because trustee Tom Hamilton has values conflicting with PYP, he should not participate in the decision about the program? If Patrick applied the same standard to himself, he’d have been di…
TAXES: Why it doesn't compute
I filed for and have been receiving Social Security for about two years. The second Wednesday of every month they send me a check. I still haven’t gotten used to getting something that I “didn’t” work for.
ROMNEY: Tax record honorable
In response to incessant harping from Sen. Reid and numerous other wealth-loathing Democrats, Mitt Romney has released his 2011 tax information and a summary of his taxes paid from 1990-2009. Much to the chagrin of…
VOTE: You'll elect a Caesar
The presidential Election Day is almost here. Looking at both candidates, I was having a hard judgment call. With Mitt Romney, I disagree with a lot of his issues and the fact that he is of the Mormon religion; of …