Opinion
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Jobs engine is here now
The region's powerful economic development arm, muscled by Steve Griffitts and Jobs Plus, is correctly aiming high on the business recruitment radar.
IB: Choice key to education
I’m new to the IB discussion. I attended the informational meeting at the library on Monday. I assumed there would be information for both sides, but it was about why we shouldn’t have the program and its' "socia…
CAR SEATS: Become a volunteer technician
Sunday, the Press ran a Letter to the Editor from Jeanne Helstrom regarding the difficulty her granddaughter had finding assistance learning to install a new child passenger safety seat. She couldn’t have explained…
CDA: Bless this great place
I have been reading the letters to the editor in my CDA Press and I feel it’s time for something positive to be written.
WATER: Column was newsworthy
Why was not Cliff Harris’ article on Page 2 of the May 3 Press on the serious subject of a guaranteed world water shortage put on the front page? Maybe it would cause some of us to begin conserving water.
HEALTH: Women, it's your time
May 9th-15th is National Women’s Health Week and Dirne Community Health Center would like to thank all of the women in our community who work so hard to make our community such a special place. We would like to enc…
LABRADOR: Writer stands corrected
Thanks for printing my letter (May 12 – “Issues in Favor of Ward”). However, beat me with a wet noodle; Raul Labrador was born in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is an "unincorporated territory" of the United States and, …
JAIL: There's more to the story
You read in Saturday’s CDA Press an opinion of Kootenai County’s jail status… as “full but needn’t be.”
IB FORUM: More like censorship
In regard to the IB/PYP "open forum" held at the CDA library on Monday night...I'm really not sure what to say. Or, maybe I do.
All aboard for China
If you'd like to play a bigger role in a shrinking world, we have one word for you: Zhongguo!
CD 1: Issues in Ward's favor
Geese, another rehash of the same nit-picking issues about Vaughn Ward. If this is all he’s got, then his opponent, Raul Labrador, is grasping at straws.
SPILL: Time to halt the drilling
I have been watching with horror as one of the worst oil spills in American history continues unabated, and millions of gallons of crude oil now threaten our nation's vital Gulf coast ecosystem. This latest nation…
AZ LAW: Read first, then react
On Sunday, May 9, a letter appeared in the CDA Press that basically stated the new immigration law in Arizona will not work because according to the writer, Jim Mowreader, it does not address the problem, (his word…
CD1: Issues in Labrador's favor
I am writing this to refute Bob Weaver’s letter titled ELECTION: Check all the facts first. Bob Weaver’s letter contained little fact and a lot of supposition. He guesses that Vaughn Ward will eventually build on h…
JUDGE: There's more to the man
I would encourage you or your staff to dig a little deeper into the "Man gets jail for hit and run" story you ran on Saturday May 8, 2010. The article states that Anthony Judge had denied knowingly hitting Kameron…