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Opinion

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Updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago

OPINION: Junkyard in the sky?

Your views of the havens at night might be interrupted by non-heavenly objects passing by your binoculars.

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
COVIDIANS: Beware the faithful

The ranks of the Covidian faith are dwindling, but those remaining in the church are the most fervent believers.

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
GARBAGE: Better business needed

Dear Mr. Saterfiel, We don’t get any tax revenue? Poppycock.

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
LETTER: An A+ for Ann

I’m writing to offer my strong support and thanks for the letter Schools: Guilty or ignorant, by Ann Seddon.

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
CDA: Popularity is poison

My wife and I just returned from a visit to Coeur d’Alene to be with family for the first time since we moved nearly two years ago.

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
BEDTIME: A glorious groaner

I told my daughter, “Go to bed, the cows are sleeping in the field.”

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
VACCINES: Look analytically

Let’s look at vaccination using logic and not politics or emotion.

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
GLOBE: Preventing disaster

I’m not sure if hypersonic missiles or Iran’s drones have a chance of first strike capability.

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
MASKS: Freedom vs. virtue

I was in a recent discussion about mask wearing as a responsible response to COVID-19.

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
CRT: This year’s boogeyman

First it’s BLM, then Antifa, now CRT, and if that isn’t bad enough, Nelly is coming to town! Civilization in North Idaho is coming to an end!

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
JAN. 6 HEARING: Required viewing

I recently wrote to the four Idaho congressmen regarding the belief of some Republicans and Donald Trump that the 2020 election was stolen.

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
Op-Ed: For the free, risk is key

Once again we face the prospect of elected officials and unelected bureaucrats determining that changing COVID figures warrant restricting our freedoms.

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
Op-Ed: ‘Buy American’ policy must start from the ground up

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has lost roughly 500,000 good-paying manufacturing jobs.

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
PATRIOTS: Let’s prove it

While the standard dictionary definition of patriotism reads “love of one’s country,” philosophers (beginning with Stephen Nathanson) have added flesh to that definition by saying it involves…

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
GROWTH: Don’t silence advisory group

Regarding your July 24 article (“Worker housing one hot topic Monday”) praising Kiki Miller’s Regional Housing & Growth Issues Partnership…

Updated 5 years, 2 months ago
COMMISH: More than three for thee

Dear Burt Rutan, You do not compute!