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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.
LIBRARY NETWORK ELECTION: Vote Meyer and McCrea
In 2017, I was elected a Community Library District (CLN) Trustee. Up until the 2021 election, I had never heard a mention of or seen a written communication that expressed concern regarding any type of sexual cont…
ELECTIONS: Vote yes on levy; Vote for Meyer and McCrea
Idaho ranks 50th out of 50 states in spending per child on education. There is no fat. Idaho defines the bottom, the least that can be spent on children, our future, in the United States.
CARLSON: What about the tapes?
Concerning the tapes of the Jan. 6 insurrection that were given to Tucker Carlson by Kevin McCarthy: Does anyone else have concerns about these tapes being in the hands of a private citizen who isn’t even constrain…
GUNS: Leave Bill of Rights alone
This is in response to Ron Dayton’s letter on guns, Sunday, April 29. I don’t have all the answers but I do know that it’s not the gun’s (inanimate object) fault. Evil is running rampant across our country as well …
REGAN: Recommended solution doesn’t solve problem
What a disturbingly naïve, narrow-minded, and unabashedly elitist point of view shared in Brent Regan’s April 28 op-ed. Just turn all the public schools into charter schools. That will solve all the imaginary probl…
BONE MARROW DONOR: Gonzaga student saved a life
It was both a shock and a tragedy when my lifelong Montana friend, Linda, was diagnosed with deadly leukemia in 2021. About the same time, Spencer Jacobs, a student at Gonzaga Law School, signed up to be a bone mar…
CDA SCHOOL LEVY: Vote yes
I had the pleasure of being one of the many who were audience members of the Coeur d’Alene High School Theatre Department production of “Frozen.” It made me happy to see the high school students so happy.
SHOOTINGS: Not about the guns
Lately we’re seeing more and more calls for “gun control,” some call even for an amendment to our great constitution to remove our rights as citizens.
CDA SCHOOL LEVY: Get informed and vote
The Coeur d’Alene School District levy will be on the May 16 ballot, so I take this opportunity to remind everyone to vote, doesn’t matter how you vote just be sure to vote. Don’t let a small number of regular vote…
EDITORIAL: School board trio just saved lives
Lakeland preserves agreement with Heritage Health that almost fell through.
SODA SHOPS: Good memories
I really enjoyed the article in Sunday’s paper about the soda shops/pharmacy. Brought back a lot of memories from my young adulthood.
POLITICS: ‘What’s happened to kindness?’
The title of the headline article today (Sunday) is a great example of what is so wrong and skewed about our political system, both in Idaho and federally: Members are more concerned about labels and partisanship, …
CDA SCHOOL LEVY: Vote yes
What’s the value of an education? More than $6 a month? Many might argue it’s priceless. Public schools provide opportunities for all children, not only academically but in developing purpose and identity as a lear…
CDA SCHOOL LEVY: Vote no
I’m a political refugee, having fled Portland’s Marxist chaos as surely as my grandpa, a Ukrainian Jew, fled Kviv and the Tsar’s pogroms in 1892.
NIC TRUSTEES: Incompetence, churlish behavior and a bizarre move from three
I observed the North Idaho College Board of Trustees meeting on April 24. I had expected the meeting to be tense, as there are clearly deep disagreements among the board on several issues. What I did not anticipate…