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.
LEVIES: Bailouts for poor planning
Historically levies were to pay for an emergency or some unplanned event. Here they appear to be used to cover mismanagement or poor management and to pass the errors on to the homeowner.
SCHOOL LEVY: Let's not return to condemned schools
Our community has provided reliable — and greatly appreciated — financial support to the Coeur d'Alene School District for many years.
Cd'A LAKE DRIVE: What happened to striping planning?
I can envision it now, our street engineers sitting around their big table discussing what to do with the newly repaved Coeur d'Alene Lake Drive.
EDUCATION COSTS: Check your Assessment Notice
Neighbors, I urge you to look closely at the Assessment Notice sent to you by Kootenai County. Listed at the bottom of the page you will find every taxing district that serves you.
editorial: At NIC, 'emeritus' equals 'courage'
Press applauds Christie Wood and NIC Board of Trustees.
SCHOOL LEVY: Many questions
I have been a school board member in the '70s, and I want to ask a couple of questions. 1. Why are the Coeur d'Alene School District trustees having a levy vote on Aug. 30 in the middle of the summer?
GREEN DEAL: A fiasco
Why should the U.S. citizens be forced into buying electric cars, paying more for gas, electric, and all fossil fuel usage, when we are the lowest in having a “carbon print.”
SCHOOL LEVY: Vital to Quality of Life
When we consider quality of life in Coeur d’Alene we think about the natural environment, our strong sense of community, and the quality of our schools.
HAYDEN PUBLIC SAFETY LEVY: Stop speeders too
We will vote to approve the public safety override levy on one other condition, that at lease one unit is assigned to full-time traffic control with a motorcycle enforcement unit being adopted in the warmer months.
BANDUCCI: Policy won't change behavior
I chose to attend the NIC Trustee Board meeting on Monday, Aug. 22 because I feel it is important to bear witness to the behaviors and conduct of Trustee Banducci.
Cd'A LAKE DRIVE STRIPING: Hazardous and baffling
Addressing Rick Carr’s letter of Aug. 16 regarding the bizarre striping recently completed on this “busier than ever” street: I live off it too and agree — we needed those four lanes! This new design needs to be si…
EDITORIAL: Let's get together at the fair
Pandemic. Inflation. War. Climate change. And a toxic political potion that too many of us have swallowed and spewed forth to the detriment of all mankind. There's an antidote, however temporary you choose to ma…
ROCKFORD BAY DEATHTRAP: Dangerous intersection
ROCKFORD BAY DEATHTRAP: Dangerous intersection
RECYCLING: Make it accessible to all
RECYCLING: Make it accessible to all
RISCH: Misinformation an outrage
RISCH: Misinformation an outrage