Opinion
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OPINION: Junkyard in the sky?
Your views of the havens at night might be interrupted by non-heavenly objects passing by your binoculars.
BEESLEY: Newspaper should respond
Regarding Nina Beesley’s letter published on Oct. 20. She claims you misrepresented the facts about comments she made. I don’t have a dog in that fight. I am not following the issue.
EDITORIAL: Yes, vote — but be an informed voter
Here's how.
OPINION: The value of training
When I became a school trustee in Cassia County in 2001, I knew I wanted to serve my community by being part of important educational decisions.
KUDOS: To Griz football player from CHS
Shout out to Kale Edwards, a proud CHS graduate who was the DE on the Montana Griz football team who caused the UI quarter back to fumble on their last ditch attempt at Saturday’s game in the Kibbe Dome.
SECOND AMENDMENT: Hypocrisy in the U.S.
In light of the recent wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, let us here in the USA take some comfort in our Second Amendment and the freedom it helps to secure.
CLIMATE EXTREMISM: A distraction
Biden’s foremost Defense Department’s policy is attacking climate change, not terrorism. Climate extremism takes our focus off from our real problems. I recently watched chunks of ice fall into the ocean from a gla…
GOOKIN: ‘Set himself up’
It is very curious that Dan Gookin and the Coeur d’Alene Press left out critical details of my question to him at the KCRWF meeting on Thursday, Oct. 5.
IDAHO: Housing inflation a crisis
In reference to the Saturday Press article “Idaho is Running Hot,” I would like to point to some statements by Sam Wolkenhauer of the Idaho Dept. of Labor. Comparing Idaho’s economy to the rest of the nation’s, he …
ELECTION: Vote for Jimmy McAndrew
This letter is to encourage the good people of Hayden to please support our public schools and vote for Jimmy McAndrew for Zone 2 trustee. Jimmy has lived in North Idaho all his life and has proven himself to be a …
EDITORIAL: Cd'A Resort spawns another hospitality giant
Bill Reagan deserving of lifetime achievement award.
OPEN SPACE BOND: Need to acquire open spaces on prairie
There is a very important Open Space Bond proposal on our Nov. 7 ballots. The area between Coeur d’Alene and Rathdrum, known as the Rathdrum Prairie, is being rapidly “urbanized” with housing developments and apart…
HAYDEN ELECTIONS MISINFORMATION: Think for yourselves and vote
I received the Luke Sommer and Tom Shafer mailer. I was stunned by the misinformation they are spewing. I am not sure if they are misinformed or just liars. The “Death of a major Wetland” that they refer to is laug…
VACCINES: Needed to rid the world of polio, other diseases
The health care media is focused on the ‘tripledemic’ of influenza, COVID and respiratory syncytial virus, commonly referred to as RSV. Viruses continue to impact people’s lives with only one true success story, th…
SHERIFF: What it looks like to me
On the surface, it is difficult to find very much fault with Sheriff Norris’s editorial, as a guest opinion in The Press on Sunday, Oct. 15. I agree, even though I am not familiar with the context surrounding the e…
REGAN: Column lists disinformation
Brent Regan’s opinion column “Pattern of Deception,” Sept. 22, listed numerous and significant instances of disinformation, including: 1) Wayne Manis was the lead FBI agent during the Ruby Ridge standoff. FACT: In …