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You can smell a conflict from far away
Conflicts of interest look complicated. But are they really?
DEMS: Cannot turn state blue
Tell a Liberal Democrat you know a fella who sits in his easy chair, drinking beer and watches Fox News all day with a handgun at his side, and they’ll say “ticking time bomb.” Tell that same thing to a Conservativ…
PELOSI: Continues to astonish us
Nancy Pelosi continues to stun any thinking person. She objected to President Trump’s calling the MS-13 savages “animals” because, as she said, they all have a “spark of divinity” as human beings. Of course, her re…
VOTERS: Democracy about to be lost
There are those who’ll continue to rationalize and explain it away, but the fact remains: In the year 2000, our politicized U.S. Supreme Court, with utter contempt for the voters and the Constitution, rolled out th…
BULLYING: It takes a village to stop it
Here we go again, another school shooting, more thoughts and prayers, then what? It seems in all of these cases of school shootings that somewhere along the line the school shooter was bullied. Bullying is a major …
PATANO: Visit central committee meetings
We are told that Sandy Patano is the chair of the Republican North Idaho Political Action Committee. These are all significant members of the community, are at heart good people, but who differ significantly with t…
SCHOOLS: Be more like airlines
Why does the department of homeland security protect social security offices but not our schools? The SSA wasn’t up to the task of dealing with denied disability applicants that showed up armed and angry and neithe…
PROJECT: Thanks for your responses
Dear people of the great state of Idaho,
TRUMP: Simply the worst
Your President (not mine) has BLOOD on his hands.
PROPOSAL: Poleline predicament
As a Post Falls resident, the column concerning the local Planning Commission’s decision permitting a 300-unit apartment complex on Poleline east of Hwy 41 is disturbing.
MILL SITE: Well done, Cd'A
Kudos to the City of Coeur d’Alene for completing their purchase of the 47-acre former mill site on the Spokane River. Their farsighted thinking will enable them to respond to the public’s desire for preservation o…
THANKS: Roger that, friends
I would like to thank all the people who believed in me and supported me. I would also like to thank and congratulate Paul Amador for being so gracious in victory and sharing this campaign with me. Despite being ne…
TRUMP: The beat goes on
Come on, France, if you wanted Trump to stay in the Iran deal, you should have just invested $500 million in one of Trump’s projects like China did; “Make China Great Again” or maybe you could have given millions t…
Yep, old guys (and gals) really do rule
The rocking chair and blankie are going to have to wait a while longer for Dennis Erickson.
CLEAR-CUT: A neighbor's lament
Perhaps you have seen the repugnant scar on the south side of Hayden Lake. High up on 50-60 degree slopes, it is a disgustingly obscene scab upon an otherwise tranquil mountain side of evergreen pines, firs and ced…