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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.
CDA: Parking at their peril
Yep, that would be Mayor Widmyer and council members Kiki Miller, Woody McEvers, Amy Evans and Dan English.
News flash on fake news and politics
New research by political scientists strongly suggests that despite their best efforts, Russian-generated fake news didn’t put Donald Trump on the presidential throne.
CONSUMER: Keep column going
I just want to let you know how much I appreciate Terri Dickerson’s column and Bill Brooks’ before her. It is always something that is much-needed information and I always look forward to reading it.
HJR 2: In a word, dumb
Listen up fellow Idahoans. There’s deep trouble bubbling in the legislative cauldron in Boise. They are fixin’ to pack the state Redistricting Commission so that one party draws the lines. I mean the Republican Par…
POEM: For Valentine's Day
She told him to write her a love poem,
NIC: Snow days needed
My name is Hope Allen and I am a student at North Idaho College. The last snow storm we had, despite 76 school districts closed due to “inclement weather,” NIC stayed open. Despite the roads being extremely hazardo…
LEVY: How to effect change
Idaho’s constitution states “It shall be the duty of the legislature of Idaho to establish and maintain a general, uniform and thorough system of public, free common schools.”
PAVING: Upon further review
My email dated Feb. 1, 2019, to Kootenai County regarding the conditional-use permit request by Thomas Tallent and Coeur d’Alene Paving was provided before I received additional information from a meeting in Athol …
Make way for (and welcome) the millennials
Slow down a minute.
NIC: A sports bias
Once again Al Williams has shown his lack of concern of any other sport besides men’s basketball. In Steve Cameron’s column on North Idaho College exploring a new gym on National Women in Sports Day, Al Williams po…
Idaho's legislative apportionment system ain't broke, it doesn't need fixin'
After much partisan wrangling in the Legislature and lengthy fighting through the courts, Idahoans voted to fix Idaho’s legislative redistricting system by removing it from raw politics. In 1994, the people approve…
TRUMP: Positively positive
After three-plus years (that we know of) during which Trump and his associates have been illegally spied on and two-plus years of a conspiracy by the Left and Deep State to remove him from office, Trump delivered t…
TRUMP: Re-election assured
Two years into the Trump presidency and Democrats are still in denial. Mueller and his henchmen are turning over every rock and not a Russian to be found!
This saint stands tall among us
Our community overflows with unsung heroes.
YOUTH: Sins and stupidity
When I was in my psychiatry rotation, I was required to attend two Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings. The first meeting I attended was at the Long Beach VA Hospital in Long Beach, Calif. That evening nearly 100 pe…