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.
UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX: Critics have it wrong
Bob Kleypas — you know not what you speak of when criticizing the University of Phoenix! I graduated with honors in 2005 from the University of Phoenix with a Bachelor of Science in information technology. I couldn…
NIC ENROLLMENT: ‘Correlation or coincidence?’
Todd Banducci has served as a trustee for North Idaho College since 2012 and his cronies first elected in 2020. In that timeframe, the population of Kootenai County has increased 28%.
HOUSING: Regulations may be hindering solutions
Regarding the “workforce housing” shortage described in The Press. Some 20 odd years ago I built a 1,000-square-foot building according to the energy standards of the University of Wisconsin, using earth shelter an…
SIMPSON: Decisions not representative of constituents
I am a novice at following politics but I can certainly smell it when someone has been in the swamp too long. And it’s starting to smell like we need to replace Rep. Mike Simpson. Just within the last week or two h…
TRINITY: White Sands and Sodom
Green glass was created by the detonation of the first atomic bomb at White Sands, N.M. (1945). Physicist Robert Oppenheimer called “Trinity.”
EDITORIAL: Dear Dads: Little Leah's got it right
A little (bad) humor can go a long, long way
SHOOTING SUCCESS: Congratulations to students, coaches, parents
Thank you very much for your two recent articles on our local students’ successes in the shotgun sports.
PRIDE: A month is too much
We all know about LGBT Pride month because all these woke businesses and any other media just keep screaming about it. Parades, ads, it’s just non stop.
CAR d’LANE: Contract change
For over 25 years the North Idaho Classics Car Club ran the Car d’Lane Friday Cruise and Saturday Car Show under contract with the Coeur d’Alene Downtown Association.
UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX: U of I is taking a bum deal
When I read you editorial today supporting the purchase of the University of Phoenix, I nearly fell out of my chair.
HOUSING: Residential building rate needs to increase
In my last letter to the editor, I pointed out that Kootenai County needed 3,000 housing units per year to maintain current availability in the housing market. Currently, we are suffering from a shortage of homes a…
EDITORIAL: Grass could be Greener with UI acquisition
Unorthodox in higher ed? Yes. Possibly brilliant? Yes again.
OPINION: When political lines become curves
One of the central distinctions in mathematics is the difference between linearity and nonlinearity. The difference between lines and curves. Commenters on life and politics generally talk incessantly about today’s…
OLD RIVER ROAD: Needs attention from county
It’s great what the new county commissioners have come up with for parking on the river, and I agree with that, but it would be great if they would concentrate as much time to repairing the Old River Road.
GAS: Looks like price gouging
I’m curious why gas prices in the area jump 20 cents a gallon instead of a smaller increment like most locales. Of course I also wonder why the price of gas in Wallace and Kellogg as of June 11 is 60 cents a gallon…