Opinion
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DEMOCRATS: We won't switch
Whatever our affiliation, we’re advised in a Press editorial, March 4, to get in line by Friday, March 9, and register as Republican. This is the party, for anyone paying attention, that now has our democracy — or …
FOX: Bring it back, Spectrum
I don’t know if anyone besides me is upset that I do not get the FOX channel that I am paying for. I am a NASCAR fan and have not been able to watch the last three races. The excuse from my provider, Spectrum, on t…
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GUNS: Consider the alternatives
Who in their right mind kills innocent school kids? The answer: nobody.
SMELTER: Doesn't belong here
Hello N. Idaho Representatives and Mayors (with a CC to Mike Patrick at the Coeur d’Alene Press),
WALKOUT: Just try this
Regarding the school walkout scheduled March 14, I would offer an alternative. In conjunction with Tom Hearn, Lisa May, Dave Eubanks, Bruce Twitchell and Stanley Olson, I suggest a letter could be sent to the paren…
OFFICER: Praying for safety
How blessed was I, and many others, to see police officer Charles Hatley being discharged from the hospital! And that his injury wasn’t fatal. If you don’t pray for protection for our police officers and our fire f…
GUNS: Then and now
We live in a different world from that of our Founding Fathers. Theirs was a time when a gun was normally something you fired once and then stopped to reload. They hadn’t even the technology of the six-shooter. Fir…
GUNS: Thinly veiled bigotry
Wow! “Virtue signaling.” All one has to do to let the world know how virtuous you are, whether an individual, or a company, is to select your target group and castigate them. There are 5 million NRA members and mil…
FEMINISM: A male's view
Feminism = Hatred of men. Gender Studies is Feminism pretending to be a science to hide the fact that it’s just hatred of men.
WALKOUT: For positive change
When it comes to what Stan Olson said on the topic of school protests, I would like to say I completely agree and think this is a positive thing to see.
Redistricting: Eroding democracy in Idaho
When lawmakers draw their voting districts to assure their reelection and to assure the dominance of their political party, they “gerrymander.” As a law profes…
GRAHAM: A gift from God
The Reverend Billy Graham, the Bible, which he loved, governed how he lived his life both in public and in private. There was no distinction between the two, as each ought to live our lives.
RENT: Prices too high
I am writing in regard to the article in the March 4 paper, “What $1,500 Gets Renters.”
VIOLENCE: Numbed by repetition
According to the A.C. Nielsen Co. (a statistics gathering company), the average number of violent acts seen on TV by the age of 18 is around 200,000. CNN Annalist Mark O’Mara claimed in July 2014 that “by the time …