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.
POLITICS: So how's your marriage?
I often wish people would instill the same passion, zeal and fervor that they have in their political ideology into perhaps their disengaged marriages, hollow work ethics and lifeless day to day human interactions.
MEDICAID: Key election question
First, I congratulate Luke Mayville of Reclaim Idaho and his supporters for landing the Medicaid Expansion Initiative on the November ballot. The campaign overcame the many obstacles, approved by the Legislature, t…
SHOPPER: A happy ending
Last week, I submitted a letter to the editor regarding the treatment my soon to be 95-year-old mother, Virginia Stanton, received at the Fred Meyer store when she presented her personal check for payment of her pu…
ISSUES: Susan, subdivision, school
Three comments:
COURT: Reject nomination
Brett Kavanaugh is the wrong choice to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. If he is confirmed to the Supreme Court, everything that we hold dear as a nation will be at stake.
BREWFEST: Unhappy customers
OK, did anyone else feel totally gouged by the exorbitant price for the Brewfest down at McEuen Park on Saturday put on by the Downtown Association? For $25, you got six small tastes and a tiny keepsake plastic cup…
TRUMP: Putin's particular pal
As Donald Trump embarks on his trip to Europe, Vlad Putin has to be tickled red that his interference in the 2016 presidential election and the corresponding agreement with the Trump campaign would produce such ben…
Prop 1 is racing toward you
Idahoans will vote this November on hysterical horse racing.
Russia frustrates U.S. effort to squelch international breastfeeding
Thanks to Russian interference, the United States failed in an effort to strike a blow against mothers’ milk at a United Nations conference this spring. The New York Times reported on July 8 that the U.S. delegatio…
Conventional Wisdom?
Jerry: Did you hear about the theatrics at the recent state Republican and Democratic Party conventions?
DRIVERS: Yield to kindness
I totally agree with Reid Harlocker in Sunday’s “opinion” page. People get in their cars and leave their brains at home. I live close to Seltice and I see it every day. They fly by the speed limit signs just to be …
DIVIDED: And doomed
Pick a subject, any subject; immigration, abortion, gay rights, same-sex marriage, Second Amendment, school shootings, mass shootings, affirmative action, gerrymandering, secure our borders, police brutality, globa…
HISTORY: Hope for the future
Ralph K. Ginorio wrote an outstanding article in the June 29 Coeur d’Alene Press “My Turn” about the need to teach accurate U.S. and world history in our high schools. I attended middle and high school in Idaho thr…
GREAT: Or maybe not
Watching Trump act as unpresidential as ever proves there’s no point explaining why his base gets attacked. They just don’t listen!
Two parties, two platforms, lots of jokes
Oh, those wacky Republicans.