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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.
OPINION: If consensus is possible in Kootenai County, it’s possible anywhere
You might be surprised to learn that Democrats and Republicans sometimes listen to each other. When we listen to each other, we learn important truths. One tru…
EDITORIAL: City must take a hard look at spending
That said, we point to what the city finance director and treasure Katie Ebner recommended as the budget process continues: The city must keep wages conservative, which means do not give out large pay increases; an…
E-BIKES: Courteous is always best
A month ago I purchased a recumbent fat wheel trident trike (a three-wheeler). I already have 169 miles trail riding. My trike is a partial assist pedal bike. I’m in my late 80s and haven’t been able to bike ride f…
LIBRARIES: Efforts appreciated
To the staff of the soon to be formed Inland Northwest Libraries: Thank you for the work you have done and the work you will be doing in the upcoming months to transition the Cooperative Information Network, the re…
TRUMP: President is getting immigration mess under control
In response to Dolores Welch and her letter about immigration and her concern about the way ICE is doing their job. In the first place, we wouldn’t have this mess if Biden hadn’t willingly created it. Trump was ele…
TARRIFS: President given expanded powers
Juana Perley’s LTE was published in The Press on July 16. She wants someone to show President Trump the Constitution, which he swore to uphold, and quoted Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, saying it “belong…
RESPONSE: A case of DTS
I grieve for Juana Perley and how she must be suffering under President Trump. For the second time in just a few weeks she has used this page as her personal vanity press. In so doing, she has repeatedly allowed De…
HUCKLEBERRIES: Thanks for memory
Your Huckleberries article mentioning the Girl Scout Round Up of July 1965. I was camping with a family on Cocolalla for a week.
EDITORIAL: Housing remains high, but there is hope
While the Housing Wage varies by county, renters with low wages from across the state struggle to afford their home. In both Ada and Canyon counties, the housing wage is $35.35, while the average renter wage is $27…
TRUMP: Not happy with president
When I see how ICE goes about dragging the immigrants away, it makes my heart hurt. Sending them to prisons in other countries, which by the way, costs us taxpayers millions of dollars, with no hope, pulled away fr…
FINK: Legacy will live on
On behalf of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations Board, I express our board’s deepest sympathy to the family of Michelle Fink. She was a very successful businesswoman in Coeur d’Alene as well as a rem…
OPINION: When tragedy strikes, we’re not Republicans or Democrats — we’re neighbors
On June 29, Coeur d’Alene experienced tragedy that shook us all when Battalion Chief Frank Harwood of Kootenai County and Battalion Chief John Morrison of the …
EDITORIAL: Michael Koep hitting all the right notes
Earlier this year, when Koep’s proposal was presented to the Coeur d’Alene City Council, some expressed concerns it might not be financially feasible, and he might end up in the red. After all, the concert promoter…
E-BIKES: Dangerous to pedestrians
On Sept. 6, 2022, my 63-year-old brother was struck and killed by an e-bike while walking on a pedestrian path in Marin County, Calif.
COUNCIL: Protect our pedestrians
Like everywhere else in Kootenai County, Dalton Gardens has become a raceway. I am 81 and retired, so I am home quite a lot outdoors pruning, mowing, and general maintenance, so I see and hear the road all day long…