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.
TRAILS: Tale of the ale
Bill Buley’s front page article on the Centennial Trail was awesome and so true. Many of our fundraising events were mentioned and one more must get highlighted, our annual Ales for the Trail, as it is the North Id…
MASKS: Consideration needed
Regarding Kaye Thornbrough’s story of June 4, celebrating the re-opening of downtown and the “protesters.” The article was accompanied by a photo of a business owner and a customer, about two feet apart, and mask-l…
TRUMP: Check his priorities
With three years of White House tweets and blatant GOP voter suppression, we need to remember history. We need to go back only 79 years. What was the United States fighting to destroy in World War II (and also Worl…
ANTIFA: Peaceful protesters?
I have to respectfully disagree on some points with Geri Hagler’s letter about the Antifa Organization. They are anything but an organization that are involved in “peaceful protests.” While they purport to be again…
MEDIA: Dial down the hate
We need to take a reality check. This Black Lives Matter affair has gone WAY too far. The political left of this country, which includes the national news media, is so consumed with hatred for the president they ha…
CARTOON: Healing with smiles
I have been in law enforcement as a practitioner, educator, trainer, and consultant, since 1971. I can’t thank you enough for the Friday cartoon that showed a black man and cop agreeing that people shouldn’t stereo…
STUDENT: Makes Idaho proud
“Support for protests in an unlikely place” was the title of an article in the Los Angeles Times op-ed section last week.
REBUTTAL: Facing the facts
To Katherine Nichols, from Roger Hawkes, with all respect…
POLICE: Front-line support
People donate money to their church every week. I get it. But why not donate one dollar a week to local law enforcement? Now, this will offend some, but it seems to me God’s just sitting this one out. The cops are …
ASSUMPTIONS: They’re dangerous
In reading the letters of late, I note quite a few are commending the citizenry who were protecting our fair city from possible vandalism, but there were two who drew my attention.
LABELS: They don’t apply
I admire and support the young people who ventured out to protest for BLM in Sandpoint. As a mother of three sons, it breaks my heart to imagine one of them being treated like Floyd. Fortunately, they are all white…
INITIATIVE: Aims at wrong targets
Reclaim Idaho wants to put on the ballot an initiative that would bring in $170 million for K-12 education by raising Idaho’s corporate tax rate and increasing taxes on individuals making $250,000 a year or higher.…
HREI: Keep your change
In my opinion, a former president of eight years campaigned to “fundamentally change America.” He and his cohorts worked tirelessly to do just that — divide and destroy the United States of America. They were worki…
OUR TOWN: A place of tolerance
We are proud to be part of the Coeur d’Alene community, especially at this moment. When our nation was rocked by the appalling event in Minneapolis, every citizen was horrified and many decided to protest. Unfortun…
Black hits the parental bull’s-eye
Who knew a preface could say so much.