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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.
DALTON: Fourth Street fiasco
I attended the Jan. 24 meeting at the Dalton City Hall on the Traffic and Improvements on Fourth Street. In the article of the Coeur d’Alene Press on Jan. 26, “A road runs through it,” Mayor Roberge and Mr. Gillis …
Stand firm against any partisan push
Partisanship in America has become a pollutant, if not a poison. Ideological mass on the far left and the far right threatens to rip our country right down the middle, where the strength of cooperation and compromi…
DALTON: Traffic trouble ahead
In response to The Press article of Jan. 26 titled “A road runs through it.” I was at the Jan. 24 meeting at Dalton Gardens City Hall. I observed our mayor was present and two city council members were also present…
PARTY: Expose political philosophies
Eureka! A-ha! The scales fall from my eyes! Something definitive, hiding in plain sight, has been revealed by a Republican initiative in Idaho’s State Legislature to require candidates to disclose their political p…
CONSUMERS: Praise for columnists
I have been a fan of the Consumer Protection column since you first started it with Bill Brooks.
IDFG: Winter of the wolf
In response to Mr. Bartholdt’s article of Jan. 24 regarding the Idaho Department of Fish and Game moose and goat hunt reduction, I agree there is a need to reduce tags but take issue with the misdirection the IDFG …
SCHOOLS: Cut number districts
I see tax and spend school districts are at it again, wanting more phony levies proposed. We’ve lived here more than 18 years and have seen many school levies, most passing, ripping more money out of taxpayers pock…
SENTENCE: Not a real penalty
Tuesday, a Coeur d’Alene judge in Kootenai County sentenced Richard Sovenski to six months jail time for misdemeanor battery. He was charged and found not guilty of felony malicious harassment, which is Idaho’s hat…
So this is what real leaders do
We searched through the pages of Mayoral Responsibilities for Dummies and couldn’t find what we were looking for there.
NATO: Do the math
The following is a message I sent our rep;
SCOUTS: Boys should be boys
Boy Scouts of America, you have lost my support!
NATO: Globalist agenda alert
I was pleased to read in the Coeur d’Alene Press that Representative Russ Fulcher voted with all my other favorite Congressmen to oppose a “lock-in” of our involvement with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A…
AMERICANS: Let's make a deal
I read the hatred in the newspaper everyday. I see the violence on TV. I hear the screams of hungry children. I have seen people die because they could not afford health care in this country. There are the cries of…
MEDICAID: Do your duty
Governor Little and members of the Idaho Legislature, please enact Medicaid expansion as passed by the voters — simply, easily and without any more red tape.
DEBT: Weighing us down
Regarding the national debt (as publicly reported), one million in $100 bills weighs approximately 22 pounds. One billion weighs 22,000 pounds. One trillion weighs 22,000,000 pounds. That’s 22 million pounds, folks…