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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.
What we need is a bigger church
All faiths should be represented in public venue.
ENDORSEMENTS: A not-to-do list
I have seen the Kootenai County Republican Central Committees (KCRCC) primary sample ballot in the Coeur d’Alene Press.
WOOD: Behavior unbecoming
As an outsider, I was flabbergasted at Christie Wood’s intolerance toward a member of our community at the City Council meeting on April 5.
COUNTY: Transparency issue arises
In the April 14 article, “Optional Forms struggle looks dead,” Bill Brooks was quoted calling citizen attendees of the commission study “thugs.”
COUNTY: Ignore special interests
It is my understanding that until the Board of County Commissioners takes a vote to decide what to put on the November ballot regarding the form of government for Kootenai County, nothing is firm on just what chang…
VETERANS: A rousing homecoming
In April ’65 at Ft. Benning, Ga., a group of young men graduated from Officers’ Candidate School (OCS).
Op-Ed: Let’s take Idaho’s broadband seriously
People are moving to Idaho in record numbers, and I don’t blame them.
Dave Barry and Barry Goldwater aren't wrong
A little humor to ease tax pains.
PEOPLE’S PEN: One more ‘p’ word
Anyone else receive a copy of the Goebbels Gazette in their mailbox?
EVENT: Message goes too far
In case you didn’t catch it. In the most recent issue of “The People’s Pen” Volume 1, Issue 4.
PROBLEMS: Blame loose borders
I’m a Wisconsinite living in Montana and come to the Athol area quite regularly; I do a lot of shopping in the Hayden, Coeur d’Alene and Spokane areas.
HOUSING: Laughing to tears
It is important to have a good laugh once a day and the ecstatic person who announced that workforce housing will be built at $400,000 per unit and isn’t that wonderful, provided my day’s laugh.
LEFT: Innocence lost
For the “left” nothing is sacred. Get those children right out from the womb, no such thing as boy or girl, give them another choice of what sex they are.
CIVILITY: Matter of respect
I’m amused by people who write letters like the one from Sarah Swanby, April 10, puzzling over “lack of civil discourse.”
Officials' silence a disservice to all
Encourage your elected officials to answer hard questions.