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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.
GOVERNOR: Flirting with tyranny
What if it is not the governor’s job to keep you healthy, keep you working, bail out your failed business, or decide which businesses are essential?
PRESS: Pro-China agenda
It appears that Hagadone is pushing the Panhandle Health District’s (see K. Hoyer piece last Friday) pro-communist China, anti-U.S. propaganda yet again. This time, however, the ignorance could be endangering the l…
PRESS: A print servant
I am often criticized for reading my newspaper daily by friends who are social media addicts. I always tell them print journalism can bring more to a story than social media or broadcast journalism since the latter…
OK to walk when you want to run
It’s the first of May, which means the Idaho door to normalcy is cracked open a little more than it was back on March 25.
VIRUS: Remember 9/11
Like most of you, I am tired of the lockdown the state and country is in. I bring up 9/11 because how may people still remember it? Unfortunately, a lot of people soon forget what happened just a month ago.
GRADS: The fondest farewell
Dear Lake City Class of 2020,
SPOKANE: Insult will cost you
What a shameful way to treat your Washington neighbors. As a Spokane resident I, and friends, come to golf several times a year in Post Falls and Coeur d’Alene. Not anymore.
VIRUS: Response welcomes dystopia
In March, mayors statewide were “encouraged” to issue seven-day emergency proclamations regarding COVID-19. City councils were stampeded to extend those proclamations indefinitely, in extreme haste, under pressure,…
BULEY: Personal stories appreciated
I was delighted to read Bill Buley’s story in the Coeur d’Alene Press featuring Ivan and Diane Wallgren, “Surviving snakes, war and old Fords.” Bill truly has a way of bringing personal stories to life and creating…
SHERIFF: Follow the money
It’s hard to believe how contentious the sheriff’s race has become. The amount of name calling, accusations and down right lies are amazing.
PROTESTS: A counter-proposal
In the view of many, it seems, the pandemic here on Earth is all pretense. The frightening number of deaths, just so much play-acting carried to the extreme. But all this fuss over nothing does impact these non-bel…
BUSTED: Consider the motives
Regarding meth bust at State Line, the article states that Idaho police wanted Joshua Bailey to conduct a Spokane drug purchase in Idaho and not in Spokane. Question is why?
IDAHO: We’re not NYC
The subject is the coronavirus and getting the city/country opened. The virus is here to stay, just as the flu is here.
NOVEMBER: Remember this, voters
Dear Editor and all who love America:
SHOLEH: Pastoral praise
Thank you so much for Sholeh Patrick’s beautiful April 23 article about Ramadan (Pastor: Ramadan presents opportunity). I’m deeply encouraged to see the local newspaper in Coeur d’Alene encouraging people to reach …