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.
TRAFFIC: Safety in jeopardy
How many Idaho motorists and passengers must be killed or injured before the use of plastic paneling, hung for traffic lane control, ends?
NIC: Qualifications matter
I am writing to urge your readers to support the candidacies of Joe Dunlap and Paul Strum to the North Idaho College Board of Trustees.
COVID: 1,000 deaths a day
Just today, the United States lost 1,000 lives to the COVID virus.
ISSUES: We see them differently
• If an influx of cash from Oregon and California is rendering property taxes too high, perhaps the problem is the property taxes themselves, rather than new residents seeking a better life.
GREENSFERRY: The bad-idea bridge
As a family that has lived on the Spokane River since 1956, we are adamantly opposed to what seems to be a developer-driven bridge.
OP-ED: The threat of a belligerent China
While the world has been rightly focused on containing the COVID-19 pandemic that originated in Wuhan, China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has taken the o…
NIC: Questions are credible
So the local Republican Party would like candidates for public office to answer questions about their relationship to the Republican Party.
NIC: Accreditation at stake
With regard to the upcoming North Idaho College nonpartisan trustee election, we have witnessed an attempt to inject a partisan ideology into the campaign that if successful could result in a new board majority wit…
ADLER: Renowned, he isn’t
This letter is written in response to your front-page article featuring David Adler on Friday, Sept. 18, who you gloriously described as “a renowned constitutional scholar.”
RIVERSTONE: The issue of access
Traffic access to and from Riverstone is a problem.
PRAY: Better than hate
On Saturday, Sept. 26, people are gathering to pray for our wonderful country.
CDA: Fond reminiscing continues
Follow up to Bernita Lien Carlson’s recent My Turn. Those were the good ol’ days.
CARTOON: Art, or propaganda?
In the Friday, Sept. 18 edition of The Press was an editorial cartoon by Mike Smith depicting eight separate images of the same small house, each with one word above it shown as spoken by someone within the house a…
SKYDIVER: Kudos all around
This letter is to publicly thank The Press and specifically Devin Weeks for the outstanding, accurate and timely coverage of my recent skydiving adventure to raise money for our wonderful local veterans’ Godsend, N…
TRUMP: Here’s his legacy
A president for none of the people. Where are the men and women in government with guts to stand up to this clown?