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PROJECT: Bad decision to play out
Project CDA achieved AYP status as printed in The Press Aug. 4. It has been several years that the district's alternative school has reached this status, Mrs. Bauman reported. Kudos to Mr. Ferguson and staff for th…
KTEC: Here are the actual facts
I am writing in response to an Aug. 13 letter that opposed the proposed KTEC levy. It is too bad the author chose to write a letter without first gathering the facts. Here are the facts.
COUNTY: Tax hike a slap to residents
It would seem Kootenai County supervisors took the same economics course as the state of California and Obama.
FAIR: Drinking, fee dissuade this family
The need to confine drink to the Beer Garden insured to a very large degree that those who have no self control and drink to excess would remain in the Garden. Now that beer drinking will not be confined, as well a…
ILLEGALS: They have upper hand
Lately there has been much ado over equal treatment under the law. Cases in point: gay and lesbian rights and Arizona's law regarding arrest of illegal aliens. Set the former aside for now. Let's look at the latter…
KTEC: Perfect option for technical students
Options, generally speaking are a good thing. The option of beginning a professional technical career path while still in high school could soon be made available to students in the Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls and Ra…
FAIR: Speak out against cost increase
Quoted from the Coeur d'Alene Press Aug. 9, 2010: "Food is a luxury. Rent and electric bill come first."
ILLEGALS: Deporting poses huge problem
Lots of people want the federal government to "do its job" and deport all 12 million or so illegal immigrants we think there are in the United States. Hey, no problem! All we need to do is suspend the Constitution …
LEAF: Thief should turn over new one
To the person(s) who took the homemade concrete leaf out of my front yard: My elderly aunt and I made that leaf together so that I would have a "concrete" reminder of her after she was gone. We spent a week laughin…
KTEC? YES!
The financial crisis is not a good reason to oppose KTEC.
LIBERALS: Pappas needs money lesson
I have to take exception with Mr. Pappas as he wrote in the "My Turn" article. Mr. Pappas must be a progressive liberal Democrat, he never checks his facts, as with all progressive liberal Democrats. I am a conserv…
KTEC: Training will help in long run
Vocational training is a realistic approach to providing our non-four-year college-bound student down the road to a career job for life. The three school districts are asking for a two-year levy to build a voc/tech…
KTEC: Stop filling the money pit
At what point does the public say "enough is enough?" KTEC wants the public in three school districts to vote for $10,000,000 in bonds. The school is to teach vocational classes already available through some schoo…
LIBERALS: Spending leads to U.S. debt
Does anyone else get tired of reading all the name calling and misinformation between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party? The fact of the matter is both parties are guilty of burgeoning government and ou…
LIBERALS: Military slight is offensive
J. Albert Rowe, when can we expect part 2 of your My Turn article of July 30? That would be the part with the facts in support of the maniacal ramblings of part 1. There were no facts in part 1.