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COLUMN: Backfire on approach
Bill Brooks, I was appalled to read your article on Monday, June 11, wherein you recommend and advise travelers to take steps to improve their travel experience, but at the cost of all others who obey the rules.
PREVENTION: Hope is key
Pastor Remington’s concern that we must guard against creating a culture where suicide becomes a trend, is shared by many. However, those in shock and grief often say things because they don’t know what else to say…
TURNOUT: Simply un-American
Reading the paper Friday, I was shocked and angered at the turnout of voters in the May 15 primary. Kootenai County has 76,980 registered voters and only 22,705 voted! Really?
Summer's coming: Let's put our fires out
North Idahoans hadn’t even been able to tear June off their calendars last year before smoke made summer miserable.
ICE: Chilling separation policy
I write to condemn in the strongest language that I can summon the current ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) policy, conducted in the name of the American people, of separating parents and children at our b…
COLUMN: Promoting dishonesty
Wow! Front page in the Post Falls Press for Bill Brooks’ article on how to cheat the airlines for one’s own personal convenience at the expense of honest abiding citizens. What if every airline passenger who checke…
D-DAY: Thank you, but
I want to thank the Coeur d’Alene Press for putting an article in the paper about D-Day on June 6, D-Day. It was only one article in the C section. Also I want to thank Snoopy for covering the D-Day invasion. He do…
GAY: Not good with God
God loves the sinner, but fornication and sodomy are an abomination to him. It’s the sin he hates. “Two men shall not lay together.”
DNA: A Bible story
Once-upon-a-time in a world not so far away, lived an editor Ike, a journalist The Kid, and a Prince with a lot of gold.
AIRPORT: Proof, please
I am responding to your editorial on the economic advantages of the airport. First let me say I support the airport and do agree it is an asset to the community, but I question some of the logic you used in the edi…
Just ask
Our kids are killing themselves.
SPECTRUM: A digital devotee
Bill Brooks, you don’t know me, but I read your column in The Press always. This is just a quick note to let you know how using the new digital network with Spectrum has been good for me.
REUNION: Calling CHS classmates
Coeur d’Alene High School Alums have hosted an annual ALL CLASS REUNION for graduates who have had their 50th reunion. This tradition was started in 1989 and was hosted that year by the CHS Class of 1935.
Some like it hot
While the news outlets were fixated on important topics like Stormy Daniels, Roseanne Barr and Samantha Bee, a boring government agency observed an Earth milepost last month. According to the National Oceanic and A…
Return Charter to its rightful throne
Interpretation of a well-meaning state privacy law has kicked Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy into an educational ditch of anonymity. Yet it’s the state that got muddy.