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RESOURCES: Get creative and prosper
I appreciated the letter recently suggesting using the high school baseball fields for the Legion teams. Maybe ideas like that, with wise use of under-utilized resources by different governments, make too much sens…
DOGS: Poop spoils pretty park
We went to Johnson Mill River Park recently and found it to be full of dog feces on the grass and down on the sand area by the water. This is not a small problem, but a huge problem. You cannot walk anywhere withou…
ATTORNEY: City should do better
The latest promise from Mr. Gridley has me puzzled as to why the city powers that be continue to employ this person. This is just another example of his poor judgment and advice that has cost the city taxpayers unn…
SCHOOLS: More perfect union
On the subject of unions, this newspaper ran an editorial a few days ago painting Tom Luna and several Republican legislators as heroes of education for their efforts to discredit and dismantle the teachers union. …
PARTY: Citizen raises fire alarm
It appears as if taxpayer dollars are being used by members of the Kootenai County Fire Department to support unauthorized keggers hosted by fellow firemen.
REFORM: IEA plays the bully
Marty Meyer writes in “REFORM: That’s not the way it is” (July 22) that the Students Come First laws should be overturned so that “educators through their professional organization can work together with parents an…
Free to not believe
Some parts of the country are hotbeds for proselytizing - trying to induce someone to convert to a particular religion. Examples are the Bible Belt to fundamental Christianity and Utah to Mormonism.
ROMNEY: Can't be PC enough
Does the media ever think about its particular brand of misinformation?
HOAs: What good are they?
Homeowner Associations have run amok! Once a good idea, HOAs have now, it seems, evolved into something twisted and perverse. Most HOA enforcers are untrained volunteers from the very community the HOA represents.
Requiem for a good program
Fans of the Coeur d'Alene School District's International Baccalaureate program, that sure does sound like taps in the background.
MARRIAGE: Try to love everyone
What would God think of his world of 2012? Probably that there are too many people that hate in his world. Hate because of the color of your skin; hate because of your religion; hate because you love someone of you…
HYDRO: Let the races begin
The news about the Hydro races being moved up to 2013 was well received by many of us in the beautiful Idaho Panhandle. The fact that they will be outside of city limits is also good news, because our deadbeat City…
PENALTY: Litany for Nittany Lions
While some Penn State football players and parents decry the NCAA sanctions, the penalties levied underscore a fundamental truth: an individual’s actions do not occur in isolation.
SCOUTS: An exemplary stance
Sunday’s paper ran a cartoon showing a man chiding a Boy Scout over the Scout’s ban against gays becoming scout leaders; the picture portrayed the Boy Scouts as prejudiced, discriminating, homophobic and backwards.…
GUNS: One would have spared tragedy
There is no doubt that many people are blaming guns for the tragedy in the Colorado movie theater, but that would be comparable to blaming planes for the nearly 3,000 people who died on 9/11.