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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.
MIRANDA: Right for Kootenai County
I believe that local government, the government closest to us, is the most critical and often the most neglected. There is a Kootenai County Commission election pending. There is one particular candidate I support.
Idaho, take the cuffs off of sheriffs
Here’s a question for the citizens of Kootenai County.
GRAHAM: Missed opportunity
It has been a week since Franklin Graham, famous son of Billy Graham, visited Spokane in his Decision America tour of the Pacific Northwest. More than 15,000 people were honored to attend his rally last Thursday at…
ODs: Let them die
I couldn’t agree more with Leslie Messner’s guest opinion, “Soft Isn’t Helpful for Drug Offenses,” Aug. 13, page 18, C1. My question is, who came up with Narcan?
MIRANDA: For county commissioner
I am writing in support of Ruben Miranda who is running as a County Commissioner candidate. Ruben comes to the table highly qualified, both personally and professionally. In nearly 40 years as a software developer,…
LITERACY: Hop on the train
We wanted to say thank you to the Coeur d’Alene Press for running a story about us on Aug. 10. The MONARCH TRAIN is a new nonprofit whose mission is to advance literacy and music education in North Idaho. Our hope …
LIAR?: Prove it
This is in response to the Aug. 10 letter from Ron Dayton, Athol titled “Sanders: Tell The Truth.”
HATRED: No room here
Once again hate-filled rhetoric has soiled the beauty of North Idaho. Sandpoint residents were recently subjects of a robocall decrying Jewish folk and others. The originator is a failed California senatorial candi…
LAWSUITS: Embarrassing info
Would like to know how The Press feels it is acceptable to print the names and amount of money owed by people involved in suits being brought against them by their debtors? No, I haven’t had my name in this section…
REBUTTAL: Adios, amigo
Dear Mr. Dayton: I am enclosing a check in the amount of $100 in your name, with the caveat that you uphold your end of your promise to leave and never return to this country if the Dems do not retake the House and…
WARMING: Population's role
This planet has a yearly net population gain of 1.1 percent.
NEIGHBORHOOD: There it goes
This letter is in regard to the major changes within the historic Garden District of Coeur d’Alene over recent years. On the ourtowncda website, this unique area of Coeur d’Alene is described as “750 largely Crafts…
HEADLINE: Asinine and disgusting
Regarding that comment on page A3 in the Aug. 11 paper depicting two kids sitting on a car hood watching the Holy Fire burn. What an asinine and disgusting headline one of your staff posted above the picture: “Bett…
HYPERBOLE: Tone it down
Rebuttal to Ron Dayton’s hyperbole:
CLIMATE: Acknowledge problem
It’s good that Randy Mann is open to discussing Earth’s changing climate, but in his response to my letter he manages to again conspicuously avoid acknowledging the role of “anthropogenic (human influenced) global …