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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.
GROWTH: Needed to keep home ownership accessible
A recent study has shown that in Kootenai County, more than 80 percent of the current working households cannot afford to buy a home. While increased traffic in some neighborhoods is indeed frustrating when a new d…
CDA SCHOOL LEVY: Vote yes
Our grandson’s local elementary school recently held a Family Fun Night event. Students and their families filled the school that Friday evening, eating pizza, participating in games and contests, having their face…
BOOKS IN SCHOOLS: Parents have options
What is the purpose of a school? To educate. What types of schools are there? Public, Private (religious or secular) and Home.
LIBRARY NETWORK ELECTION: Vote for Meyer and McCrea
I value the First Amendment, the freedom to read, parental choice and fiscal accountability. For these reasons, I will be voting to re-elect Regina McCrae and Judy Meyer to the Community Library Network Board.
LIBRARY TRUSTEE ELECTION: Vote for Meyer and McCrea
Thank you CLN Library Trustees Judy Meyer and Regina McCrea for your dedication to our communities, fiscal responsibility overseeing the library budget, hiring professional library personnel, setting long-range pla…
ENEMIES: ‘Something very wrong’
I don’t know where to start with my confusion about the “We have identified the enemy” report in Sunday’s paper. I believe we are one country with people who carry a variety of views. Citizens are not enemies.
CDA SCHOOL LEVY: Vote no
Looks like the Coeur d’Alene School District is pulling out all the stops. All the apocalyptic rhetoric they spew just prior to the May vote is of course intentional. Also, the claims of closing schools, dismissing…
EDITORIAL: Is it time for NIC to start over?
Some suggest accreditation loss only way to save college in long run
OPINION: National ideas and local politics
I don’t have any brilliant suggestions for solving gun violence in America, but I do have some observations about the issue and how this issue and many others fuel the rise of the extreme wings of both parties, inc…
OPINION: Bringing facts to the levy discussion
Last month the Coeur d'Alene School District proposed a $25 million perpetual supplemental levy and a $5 million school plant facility levy. Both levy requests…
DEATH PENALTY: Headline ironic
Page A7 of April 21 Press: “Washington abolishes death penalty.” Washington should have added, “unless you are an embryo or fetus.”
CDA SCHOOL LEVY: Show students and teachers they are valued
I am a product of Coeur d’Alene public schools, a teacher’s daughter, and the parent of three students. The levy passed for the first time in 1986, the year I started first grade at Dalton. It has passed every two …
THANK YOU: To Kootenai County Commissioner Bill Brooks
On April 13, Bayview residents appealed to the Kootenai County Board of Commissioners over a major subdivision with 24 homes on 8 acres destined for our small town. Our primary concern was the opening of a secondar…
VOTE AGAINST GOVERNMENT OVERREACH: Support Meyer and McCrea
One of the reasons I was attracted to Idaho was freedom. My husband was born and raised in Idaho, and wanted to live somewhere that supported the Second Amendment. I was attracted to the homeschool freedoms we have…
CDA SCHOOL LEVY: Vote yes
When you think about voting for a school levy, you might not be thinking of type 1 diabetes, but you should be. You might not be thinking of the special care schools are, by Federal law, required to administer to c…