Opinion
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RURAL: Speak up at county meeting
I strongly oppose the text amendment that the county commissioners will be asked to approve at their April 28 hearing.
MILITARY: Deny the liberal slant
I find Cecil Kelly's letter about the military and its justice system completely false, misleading and disgusting.
PRESS: Headline was sensationalistic
Your headline of Monday's Press further exemplifies your emphasis on sensationalism rather than substance. Editors had a choice of sensitivity versus sensationalism in the tragic mine accident and subsequent recove…
SCHOOLS: Two good candidates
Tom Hamilton and Terri Seymour are the only Coeur d'Alene School Board candidates I would trust with my vote. They have promised to not accept campaign money from the teachers' union. The CEA offered financial supp…
POLICE: Visitor questions officer
I live in Maryland but grew up in Coeur d'Alene and return for visits, during which I walk Tubbs and patronize downtown merchants daily.
RURAL: Threat to healthy lifestyle
I live at the far west end of Spirit Lake in a wonderful quiet area. That lifestyle is threatened by a proposal coming up for consideration by the Board of County Commissioners on April 28. That proposal would perm…
SILVERWOOD: OK with zoning request
Your article on the front page of The Press, April 21, makes me chuckle. Although the lady who expressed her objection to rezoning the property next to Silverwood feels she may suffer from additional noise and dist…
TERRORISM: It's in our back yard
Our country spends billions and billions of dollars on fighting terrorism in other countries. This tactic of bringing the fight to them and in turn keeping them preoccupied and focused on attacking and fighting our…
ABORTION: Beware the anti-Christians
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is the nation's largest operation of abortion facilities in the United States and has admitted to committing more than 4,000,000 post-implantation abortion procedures…
DEBT: Heed senators' advice
Stop this hypocritical debate and use some common sense to keep the United States from very soon falling over the cliff in indebtedness, as both our good Idaho Senators are warning us will happen soon.
RURAL: Don't let this happen to you
My family has lived on our South Stateline Road property for more than 30 years. Four years ago we were forced to sell part of the family property for personal reasons. That land was bought by a couple who said all…
Unions, taxpayers: Tango or tangle?
What do you get when you comb through hundreds of pages of collective bargaining agreements, conduct a couple dozen interviews and produce half a dozen stories on Kootenai County's unions, with a full-page chart th…
SENTENCE: Molester deserves much worse
Seriously Judge Lansing Haynes? April 20 2011, Records. You sentence a 46-year-old child molester to prison and then suspend it with probation? Are you aware of the reoffend rates of sex offenders? Do you really th…
INMATES: Darn right they clean
I am writing in response to Mr. Vernon Trotter's letter to the editor regarding the Sheriff's Inmate Labor Program working in the area of Sanders Beach earlier this month. I hope this letter clarifies Mr. Trotter's…
McEUEN: Priorities topic of the day
Mr. Hassler, please reread my letter. I most certainly did not say that Coeur d'Alene should spend its money on other services to assist the less fortunate. I did say, that in this economy, they should not be spend…