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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.
QUIT IT: And actually do something
I am almost without words. If anyone has a cellphone turn them off, if you have a computer turn it off, anyone with a smart TV turn it off, not to mention your debit or charge card. Quit using as all these things c…
EDITORIAL: Libraries face yet another ideological hurdle
Support a 3% CLN tax increase and let trustees know.
LIBRARY NETWORK BOARD: Intent on destruction?
The Community Library Network is over $200,000 in the hole and has until the end of the month to agree on how to fix it. Tom Hanley, Rachelle Ottosen and Tim Plass want extreme budget cuts that would include reduci…
LEGISLATORS: Want to take away your rights
“Think of the children!” Since an anti-library bill (H.B. 314) failed, people across the state are attempting to control not only public libraries but the Idaho people as well. While ranting about safety, they igno…
AP HEADLINE: Was biased
Regarding the article in the July 13 issue with headline “Estate of anti-fascist files wrongful death suit.” The article is produced by the Associated Press. I am not sure who decided on the headline. How the indiv…
EDITORIAL: Hard to see heaven from NIC's view
College has a long way to go for survival.
NIC: Banducci, McKenzie should step down
Thank you, Coeur d’Alene Press and Kaye Thornbrugh, for your thorough coverage of the ongoing and disheartening situation at North Idaho College. Thankfully, once again, the college has been provided a temporary de…
HOUSING: More ‘right-size’ options needed
I prefer progress over regression but as I age I recognize the limits of my current home. I foresee a time soon when I will need to return to apartment living instead of the single family ranch-style home I current…
WEATHER REPORT: Accentuate the positive
A few weeks ago, while reading the forecasted weather, imagine my surprise and delight in reading, “…partly sunny…” instead of “partly cloudy.” It made me smile and to think a little more deeply about how forecasts…
LIBRARY NETWORK: Small libraries could be closed
Community Library Network district manager, Alexa Eccles, stated at a recent special trustee meeting that the smaller libraries (Harrison was mentioned) might be closed and other locations may have reduced hours in…
TRAFFIC CENTER: Real goal is control, not safety
Benjamin Franklin once said: “Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” There are those who would argue that his statement has lost its c…
SHED ROOFS: Too true
I had to laugh out loud at Gregory Torline’s letter of July 9 regarding shed roofs because I have been saying the same thing for quite some time.
EDITORIAL: New model — and leader — for your hospital
Search officially on to fill one of community's most important jobs
FIREWORKS: Laws impossible to enforce
Regarding Barbara Roberts, et al, letter published July 7 “NEIGHBORHOOD FIREWORKS: Ordinance needed.” The ordinances you seek from the state are already on the books locally. Just Safe and Sane are allowed.
SHED ROOFS: They’re everywhere
I have been in construction my whole adult life and when I was a kid back in the ’50s the only time you saw a shed roof was of course on a shed. And the only time you saw a split shed roof where one side is higher …