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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.
Mulling over Volume One of the Mueller Report
Debate over what the Mueller Report concluded with regard to Russian interference in the 2016 election has only intensified since Robert Mueller spoke to the nation on May 29. In his sphinx-like manner, the special…
HYPOCRISY: It's a D.C. epidemic
The hypocrisy of today’s politicians is staggering!
STIGMA: No, it's prejudice
Regarding the June 2 article about the Pride event in Coeur d’Alene: “As much as we have mental health ‘stigma?’”
Let's raise our glasses to sensible rewards
These are the good old days.
Dawn of D-Day, and you are there
Tomorrow, after three-quarters of a century, we’ll pause to remember and reflect on the Allies’ D-Day invasion, when the greatest force ever assembled for good rallied in a last-ditch, all-in effort to defeat the T…
FRIDAY: Wear Orange day
This year for Wear Orange National Gun Violence Awareness Day on June 7, we ask our community to Wear Orange and join us at Family Day in the City Park. Mayor Steve Widmyer has proclaimed Friday, June 7 as National…
TRUMP: Nothing righteous here
In a May 31 letter to the editor, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, gets gonged twice. Ron Vieselmeyer, the gonger, thinks the speaker has said some things about the president that weren’t very nice. But even wor…
WARNING: Principles or Power?
This is a tale of three Sauls. All are examples of Eternal Principles — or lack of them — and Earthly Power. These three made their choices on Earth and now are dead.
HATRED: The sound of silence
I have been attending breakfast off and on with the Pachyderm Club in Coeur d’Alene since retiring in 2010. Two months ago, I gave a presentation on socialism. Virtually everyone in the club is against socialism, b…
DRIVERS: Out of control
How many more people have to get seriously injured or even killed at traffic lights around Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls, etc., before certain law enforcers do something about it?
GRATEFUL: Assistance appreciated
I want to thank Ericka for helping me when I locked my keys in my car. Thank you to her daughter, Sabrina, for helping with my dog.
CITIZEN: Dog-day afternoon
Tuesday, 21st, noonish. I step out my front door to see Ranger Rambo race by in his animal control truck, coming to a fast stop. Look to my right and there’s Secret Agent Susie with my skinny 14-year-old dog, Smurf…
And the Champion for Transparency title goes to
He’s a sheep in Woolf’s clothing.
GOVERNMENT: Not exactly efficient
Bernie Sanders is campaigning on free health care for all. So, 180 million folks with their own insurance would lose it and free government health care would kick in. So, how efficient is our government?
THANKS: For memorable weekend
On behalf of the Auxiliary to VFW Post No. 889, I would like to thank the management of Super 1 Foods in Coeur d’Alene and Walmart for their support of our poppy drive over Memorial Day weekend. All the money donat…