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.
NIC: Choose wisely, trustees
The future of North Idaho College is in dangerous territory this week, placed there by three of its own trustees.
NIC: Explain your plan
Everything I read about the majority members of the NIC board tells us what they are against — mainly the mask mandate and renewing President MacLennan’s contract.
RESPONSE: Not good, Carlsbad
Hail to thee, Oh Mighty Carlsbadian!
PANDEMIC: Who to believe
We have two doctors write to the paper, one a retired medical doctor saying that Ivermectin is a proven award-winning drug safe to use for COVID, while the psychologist doctor implies he was a MD.
NONSENSE: Embrace it no more
I would like to thank many (not all) of the citizens of Idaho for their unwavering embrace of the abject nonsense they have come to believe concerning the seriousness, or even the existence, of COVID-19.
MACLENNAN: Support for president
As very concerned citizens we are writing to encourage the NIC trustees to approve the contract of Dr. Rick MacLennan to continue in his position as president of North Idaho College.
NIC: Losing the community
I don’t know the details of the NIC president’s job performance, but I question changes at NIC that seem incongruent with a mission to serve the local community.
Op-Ed: Gunfight at the N.Y. Corral
It might seem strange for an Idaho congressman to get involved with gun laws in New York.
NIC: Know your customers
I taught quality assurance principles to managers at numerous government facilities.
COVID: Consequences for no vaccine
Several years ago a friend of mine, a primary school teacher, told me about how she handled discipline with her young students.
SHOLEH: General welfare key
Thanks to Sholeh Patrick for her informative column, “Vaccine mandates aren’t new.”
BIDEN: That’s not courage
A response to a letter to the editor Sept. 10 congratulating President Biden for a job well done.
PRESS: Detailing delivery woes
Thursday, Sept. 9, the newspaper is delivered after 9 a.m. Friday, Sept. 10, more of the same.
POLICE PAY: Use state surplus
A recent article in The Press stated baristas make about the same wages as the police.
VACCINE: Political hot potato
In the article, “Sweeping new vaccine mandates in store for 100 million Americans,” the author described Joe Biden’s plan to punish those Americans who refuse to get vaccinated.