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Opinion

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Updated 1 month, 1 week ago

OPINION: Junkyard in the sky?

Your views of the havens at night might be interrupted by non-heavenly objects passing by your binoculars.

Updated 2 years, 5 months ago
EDITORIAL: How would you cover bad news?

Columnist revisits 'circus' environment on Hitler's 100th birthday

Updated 2 years, 5 months ago
BORAH: Instead, consider this

For the school district’s shortfall problem, before you look at shuttering Borah School, disrupting kids and parents lives, you better really think about shuttering that underused and taxpayer funded district offic…

Updated 2 years, 5 months ago
GIBBONEY: Focus without fanfare

Dale Gibboney has the management and organizational skills, financial understanding, life experience, integrity, and most importantly a proven track record of success at getting major projects done. I can and will,…

Updated 2 years, 5 months ago
BORAH: Closure would be tragic

As a Coeur d’Alene resident of 40 years, the changes in our once tightknit community saddens me enough to consider leaving it all behind.

Updated 2 years, 5 months ago
BORAH: Start cutting at the top

Concerning the Coeur d’Alene School District’s $6 million deficit and the closure of Borah Elementary.

Updated 2 years, 5 months ago
ANNIVERSARY: A candle for Randy, Cliff

Dear Mr. Mann, I enjoyed reading your personal column in Tuesday’s Press. I want to give you a big Thank You! for being so steadfast and consistent over the past 20 years with your weather forecast, always getting …

Updated 2 years, 5 months ago
FREEWAY: Accept this trash challenge

I live in Post Falls and drive on the freeway pretty much every day. I have been so grateful for the cleanup crews that have been working to pick up the trash (I believe the crews are made up of people doing commun…

Updated 2 years, 6 months ago
OPINION: AI concerns aren't just hallucinations

Potential for good - and not-so-good - abundant in medical field and elsewhere

Updated 2 years, 6 months ago
EDITORIAL: Video forums help fill political news gap

Starting Sunday, go to cdapress.com and click the Meet the Candidates tab

Updated 2 years, 6 months ago
OPINION: Why your vote in May matters

Future of the Idaho Republican Party is on the ballot

Updated 2 years, 6 months ago
VIGIL: Why I won’t be there

Thanks but no thanks North Idaho United for the invitation to your vigil on Saturday.

Updated 2 years, 6 months ago
BORAH: Don’t take away ‘our kids’

I couldn’t believe my eyes Saturday! Close down Borah School? Borah is not just a school; it is central to a close-knit neighborhood.

Updated 2 years, 6 months ago
THANKS: To our favorite weatherMann

In reading “Forecast Calls for 20-Year Celebration” on Monday (April 15) in the Coeur d’Alene Press, I wanted to give a heartfelt thank you to Randy Mann for his years of dedication and service to providing accurat…

Updated 2 years, 6 months ago
NIC: What trustees should do

“NIC trustees examine governance problems,” April 13, page A1. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, here? Darn unlikely to be volunteered, but until it’s admitted, accreditation could be illusive.

Updated 2 years, 6 months ago
SHERIFF: Make him one and done

Sheriff Bob Norris is up for re-election this year and needs to be shown the door.