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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.

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Let’s just say it: North Idaho College powers opportunity

The numbers speak volumes: $205.9 million earned by former students, $14.2 million injected by those who moved here to study, and $53.2 million in institutional spending. This isn’t abstract math—it is evidence tha…

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ICE: Safe, welcome in Spokane

ICE: Safe, welcome in Spokane

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PRESIDENT: Are you concerned?

PRESIDENT: Are you concerned?

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WAKES: A structural threat

WAKES: A structural threat

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OUTDOORS: Improve wildlife management

OUTDOORS: Improve wildlife management

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COMMUNITY: Needs mobile crisis teams

COMMUNITY: Needs mobile crisis teams

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SCHOOLS: Accountability in education

SCHOOLS: Accountability in education

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TRAFFIC: Engineers responsible for congestion

TRAFFIC: Engineers responsible for congestion

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EDITORIAL: Hospice Thrift Store deserves a home

Inflation and increasing costs have affected everyone, but they have hit nonprofits particularly hard. To provide money for the people they are trying to help, they can’t afford to pay high rent costs. Nonprofits n…

Updated 1 year, 1 month ago
OPINION: Until it impacts you

It’s easy to tune out politics. To shake your head at headlines, scroll past the noise, and think, “That doesn’t really affect me.”

Updated 1 year, 1 month ago
WAKESURFING: Watch video, decide for yourself

As predictable as the sun rising in the morning is the annual debate over suitability of wake boats in North Idaho rivers and lakes.

Updated 1 year, 1 month ago
RODEO: Saddened and embarrassed

I found myself so proud and humbled at the start of the rodeo on Wednesday night. The opening invocation, the singing of the Canadian and U.S. national anthems, the love of country, the respect given to our public …

Updated 1 year, 1 month ago
TRAFFIC: Drivers unsafe and discourteous

This is in answer to George Silva’s “Traffic” letter in Sunday’s Press.

Updated 1 year, 1 month ago
TRADE: Ending the war on Ukraine

This latest meeting between Trump, Putin and Zelinsky along with other world leaders accomplished nothing. Putin is still carrying out his war on Ukraine. Russia wants Ukraine to give up the Dometst and Maripol reg…

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PRESIDENT: Press owes apology

I hope that the monumental hypocrisy demonstrated by The Press in it’s Opinion page Aug. 24 is not lost on all readers except me. In it’s editorial, it chastises Letters/My Turn writers for using “personal attacks,…