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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.
SEXUALITY: A call for discretion
I have to agree with Patricia Turner’s letter to the editor. What you do in your own home is your business, and should stay there. What you force on me in public is an entirely different matter — that’s bullying!
ROAD: Bad news for bicyclists
This past Thursday, while driving into town on East Hayden Lake Road, I came upon a bicyclist down on the road, his damaged bike nearby and a car stopped in the road. I don’t know if the car hit the biker or the bi…
MEDIA: Lies and more lies
You have all heard the saying “if you tell a lie long enough it becomes truth.” In case you were wondering, I am talking about the liberal media and their blatant lies and agenda. If you’re a liberal don’t stop rea…
INITIATIVE: Keep your hands off
The people want the right to petition left alone, unchanged. I think the citizens at the meeting in the Coeur d’Alene library were feeling angry about the Legislature’s efforts to change the initiative process and …
SHOOTINGS: A fact about guns
This is in rebuttal to the piece that was written by Alice Arambarri in the Aug. 7 press letters to the editor. You do realize that none of the guns used in any of the real mass shootings was purchased at a gun sho…
DRUGS: Answer this alarming call
This letter is in response to the front-page article of the Coeur d’Alene Press article on Aug. 4 by reporter Craig Northrup. I understand the article to be true based upon the decades and decades-long reputation o…
INCIDENT: Praise - and disgust
Sunday, July 28 I was trying to make a right-hand turn onto Ramsey Road off Kathleen and my small pickup died. There was a ton of traffic at each intersection, but one wonderful young man jumped out of his rig, cro…
LEVIES: Real problems, wrong answers
Attention local property owners. I see another group of school levies coming up in our future, replacing asphalt parking lots in area schools. I’ve gone by a number of area schools and see parking lots deterioratin…
ARTICLE: Setting the record straight
The recent Associated Press story (U.S. issues hacking security alert for small planes, July 30) missed or mischaracterized some key points about small-airplane security.
RACISM: In defense of The Press
The Fourth of July Parade is a celebration of freedom for all.
VICTIMS: Forgotten in aftermath
Watching various reports on TV the last few days has been very distressing. There seems to be no sympathy for all those people who lost their lives in El Paso, Dayton and Chicago. Just various politicians bashing t…
FLAGS: Generate mixed feelings
I would like to express a thought about the Confederate flag being in the July 4 parade in Coeur d’Alene. Without knowing what is in the heart of the people choosing to have a Confederate flag on the front of their…
SOUZA: Right about initiatives
Sen. Mary Souza made some valid points during the Reclaim Idaho Town Hall meeting. I strongly support her position of making our initiative laws better. She suggests to inform us, the citizen and taxpayers, about w…
RELIGION: Why it's not in schools
Allen Marsh (Letters Aug. 2) states that “Anti-Christians succeeded in stopping our schools from teaching Christianity and morality by Court opinion, not legislated law.”
SOUZA: The champion is MIA
Where has Mary Souza — CHAMPION OF THE PEOPLE — gone? Remember during the McEuen Park debate that she was adamant that the city hold an advisory vote so that Council would know what the people wanted? Now, Mary is …