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.
Solid waste? More like solid gold
Solid Waste Department a shining example of excellence.
COMMUNITY: Supports fundraising book sale
The Friends of the Community Library Network, after a two-year break during COVID-19, were delighted to hold our big book sale at the Hayden library.
GUNS: Serious solutions needed
America’s greatest irony.
GUNS: Officials need to take action
All this ongoing murder of innocents with semi and assault rifles is sickening.
Please, keep Memorial Day free of politics
Focus should be exclusively on all Americans who gave their lives for their country.
MEN: Time to change portrayal
We get what we sow. Society tells young men that they are simultaneously privileged and without value, and that they are toxic if they embrace the healthy masculinity that comes with being a man.
SHOOTINGS: Focus on the root cause
Ron Dayton’s ignorant rant about members of NRA having blood on their hands is yet another example of how unwilling people are in discussing the root cause of mass casualty events.
SCHOOLS: Need to protect our children
As an example I’ll use the federal building in Spokane.
SCHOOLS: Securing buildings is possible
In response to John Barlow’s letter in the May 29 Press (originally published in 2018) Is anyone listening yet?
NUCLEAR: Impact study test released
The U.S. Department of Energy has released an environmental impact study test for a new small scale nuclear reactor to be developed in Idaho at the Idaho National Lab.
Goodbye is a dirty word
So we just won't say it.
SCHOOLS: A plan that would work
Editor’s note: This letter was originally published in 2018.
SHOOTING: And list of wishes
Hours after the incident in Texas, Mr. Biden was using this tragic killing as a political thing, calling for more gun control.
SHOOTING: Prayer isn’t enough
We can pray after the fact when such a mass killing happens.
THINK: Mass mortality events
I saw this in a headline…