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TAXES: Free help is still available
The free tax-aide program that has more than 90 volunteers would like to help more young people. The Silver Lake Mall has a site six days a week for walk-ins who need help filing their tax returns.
LAKES: Raise money but don't hurt kids
Lakes Magnet Middle School charging kids money to wear their own clothes and not their uniform? Last Friday for a “Social” and three days later again. The principal stated that “the kids do not have to pay any mone…
HYPOCRISY: Think this over, gents
Regarding the issue of birth control coverage and religious employers, I thought the issue was having the employer groups OFFER the option of contraceptives, then the employee could make the choice of whether or no…
GAS: Leap into the price debate
Definition: Oligopoly, control over the production and sale of a product or service by a few companies.
DOCTOR: Bill violates HIPPA
I am writing as a retired physician and past president of the Idaho Medical Association. I am asking that you actively OPPOSE Senate Bill 1387.
TRUSTEE: Keep politics out of it
I am writing about the upcoming appointment of the fifth Coeur d’Alene School Board Trustee by our Kootenai County Commissioners. I am asking our County Commissioners to please keep politics out of your decision-ma…
LEVY: Why not revote on both?
OK. Lakeland Joint School District wants a retry vote on the $1 million a year for 10-year levy. So in that same reference for a level playing field why then cannot the people who voted no on the $5 million a year …
TROOPS: Get out of Afghanistan
More than 10 years after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, I see little evidence that the current U.S. military strategy is helping to bring peace or stabilizing that country. I am heartened by reports that our country…
EASTON: It's all about tradition
I am opposed to the trade of Camp Easton property. I can put it in one word, TRADITION. The camp has over the years had many thousands of Scouts spend their summer learning the ways of nature. I was one of them and…
ULTRASOUND: Not GOP's business
This is an open letter to our “North Idaho Team” of Sen. Bob Nonini, Sen. Jim Hammond and Rep. Frank Henderson.
COLUMN: A mother's wisdom
On March 13, in response to an item written by a Dr. StormoGipson as to when life begins, etc., The Press ran a rebuttal opinion, written by Stephanie Murphy, which I felt was one of the most sensitive items I have…
ULTRASOUND: Look closely, independents
Any of you leaning GOP look at what happened in Boise Friday. Anxious to get a five-hour head-start on their weekend, lawmakers opted to delay voting whether women should be forced to undergo ultrasounds in Idaho i…
INSPIRING: Don't forget 4 chaplains
Last month the Napoleon Ouellette, Post No. 24 of the American Legion in the small town of Rumford, Maine, held a ceremony for the four chaplains aboard the troop transport “Dorchester.”
LOST: Wallet's return requested
On Saturday, March 18, we were at Zumiez (skate store in Riverstone) in the late afternoon. My 9-year-old son laid his wallet down on the couch in order to try on some sunglasses. When we got home, he realized he h…
McEUEN: More ways to improve
I read Councilman Mike Kennedy’s letter to the editor with interest. I appreciate the spirit of compromise that he details, and I am pleased to think that the plan for the redevelopment of McEuen Field is being sca…