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LHD: Called out for good work
This is a thank you to the Commissioners and the current employees of the Lakes Highway District. I would like to commend you for the stellar job you all did this past winter in keeping the S curve on Lancaster de-…
SPEAKER: Looks down on America
Dean is purely an elitist and a socialist who would not be happy until there is a redistribution of wealth. Everyone below his egotistical station in life would be sharing in mediocrity and misery. Regarding the Co…
SENIORS: Home away from home
Everyone should have a place they can call their second home. Especially if you are a senior in this day and age when we do not get raises in Social Security and everything else seems to be beyond our reach money-w…
Tuition key for NIC
One of the first big horses out of the budget starting gate is North Idaho College.
McEUEN: Cost is key to approval
Now we have the projected costs for the McEuen Park, and that is a step forward for a rational look at the proposed elements of the project.
EYESORE: Will somebody step up?
There is an eyesore in our otherwise beautiful downtown area at the southeast corner of Seventh and Sherman. A Mexican fast food restaurant was torn down to make room for an ill-planned office building which stalle…
McEUEN: Money often restricted use
Diane DePriest feels that Coeur d'Alene should spend its money on other services to assist the less fortunate in these troubled times. Nice thought, but it won't work. Government agencies are restricted to the use …
TEA PARTY: Press report underwhelms
I read with interest your front page article on the "Tax Day" Rally April 14, as I attended the event. The coverage was largely accurate, although the attendance was far more than the reported "roughly 400 people."…
FIRED: Because they don't listen
I am a school administrator and one of my tasks is to evaluate teachers for merit pay. I hope I can observe them at least twice a year because of budget cuts and loss of staff and now extra duties.
TRIBE: Courts just don't work
There is no other court in the land where victims are made into aggressors as much as the Coeur d'Alene tribal court. Where protection orders protecting children are ignored and the parents of the protected child a…
IRONMAN: Poem for a big finish
An Ironman Prayer
PBS: Subsidy wise investment
As a citizen of the state of Idaho - and full cognizant of the hatchet job just thrust upon public education in the state of Idaho - I am moved to wonder why it is that every elected representative in the United St…
TAXES: Patriotic millionaires, ante up
I find it extremely hypocritical, of these so called Patriots claiming they would like to have their income taxes raised. As most of these Patriots do not pay income taxes, they instead pay taxes based on capital g…
DISCIPLINE: School board, where are you?
Another stabbing incident. Hazel Bauman, Coeur d'Alene's Schools' Superintendent, reacts by announcing a "task force" to study the discipline problem in our schools. Why did it take a knife incident on campus and a…
ZONING: Keep rural areas rural
On April 28, the Board of County Commissioners will be asked to approve a text amendment that will allow for commercial development in every zoning district within the county, including agricultural and rural zones…