Opinion
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EASTON: Clearly, it's best for boys
Even though the response at the Town Hall meetings was overwhelmingly AGAINST the sale of Camp Easton, the recent Scout Council “survey” amazingly states the majority are now in favor. The “survey” was a series of …
Sit back and watch Washington
The mad scramble to privatize liquor sales in Idaho doesn't make sense.
DENTAL: Keep 'em clean, kids
We are wrapping up what Idaho’s governor has proclaimed “Children’s Dental Health Month.” Many of us in the dental community participated in our annual Give Kids a Smile program which offered free dental care to th…
RECALL: Yes, it's come to that
Given the events of last Tuesday’s City Council meeting, an immediate recall campaign must be initiated against Mayor Bloem and council members Kennedy, Goodlander and McEvers. I wrote in a previous letter to the e…
OBAMA: Contraception - and misdirection
OBAMA HAS DONE IT AGAIN! He has taken attention away from the important issues — our economy, jobs and foreign affairs — and re-directed it to “social issues” that weren’t issues until he made them so.
HART: Just say no, voters
We pay our legislators $16,116 for three-month’s efforts, plus living expenses of $112 a day, to conduct the serious work of running the state of Idaho. And what do they deliberate about? A special license plate as…
MACK: Back off political attack
Sheriff Mack came to national prominence when, along with Sheriff Printz of Montana, he filed the lawsuit: Mack vs. United States (later Printz vs. United States) in opposition of the Brady Bill over the requiremen…
POEM: It's not the dogs' fault
I guess I’ll weigh in on the issue as it is a big local issue and, in some cases, a very big local issue.
FORE!: Drive away DST
Why do we disrupt our lives, twice a year, and spend or waste millions of dollars in higher energy costs, increased traffic accidents, lost productivity and taxes, not to mention the proven human costs in psycholog…
SHERIFF: Press indebted to reader
To begin with I believe The Press owes me a fresh bowl of cereal as I knocked mine over while laughing and reading the announcement of Adam Johnson running for sheriff of Kootenai County. According to the paper thi…
Change aplenty at NIC
There are two ways to look at the dramatic change occurring in leadership at North Idaho College.
U.S.: We go back for our wounded
Our American military practices a unique, fundamental and inviolable rule on the field of battle: We go back for our wounded. Through the hail of bullets, at extreme peril to themselves, our soldiers, our countryme…
PIGS: Shame on animal deserters
To whoever dumped their two guinea pigs last Sunday in the woods near the water tower on Wilber Avenue, shame on you! It saddens me that someone would do such a thing to these little animals with snow on the ground…
OBAMA: A pain in the particulars
In Tuesday’s column, Sholeh Patrick made a statement I thought peculiar: “It still pains to reflect how Mr. Obama’s ancestors may have arrived here.”
OBAMA: Rally to block treaties
Obama and Clinton are entering into negotiations over or seeking ratification of five treaties that could radically limit our national sovereignty. “International Criminal Court,” Clinton has reversed Bush’s policy…