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KITTENS: End abandonment
I’d like to confront the moronic, socially irresponsible jerk who dropped off in my neighborhood recently several half-starved kittens. If this coward had simply taken the mother cat and her kittens to the Kootenai…
LEARNING: Nurture the love
An education is more than learning colors, shapes and numbers. It exceeds calculus and world history. True education nurtures a love for learning. It makes pathways to the unknown and creates something different, a…
GRADS: From one to another
From a graduate of 2014 to the Graduating Class of 2016, Congratulations!
Annual plan can take pain out of bargaining
Someday, public entities like schools will reward their employees for something other than showing up for work every day.
Get the biggest bang for your buck
Great things rarely happen by accident.
CHURCH: Disappointed member
A week ago I wrote about the lack of common sense in regard to the LGBT community. Well common sense left our church today.
KUDOS: Great fifth-graders
In May the Fairgrounds welcomed 752 students from the Lakeland and Post Falls school districts from the fifth grade to participate in the Farm to Table Program. I wish to compliment the students on their behavior.
FOUNTAIN: An unwise investment
A memorial fountain is planned in downtown Coeur d’Alene. $750,000 for a fountain is far too much to spend, even though it is private money.
HILLARY: A thoughtful choice
Regarding “The lesser of two evils”: I have to disagree with some I hear referring to their choice of Trump as a lesser of two evils. The most glaring difference in our choices is the assertion that they admire Tru…
STATS: Back 'em up
The figure 96 percent has been used by Obama, Biden and a number of congressional committees with regard to the overwhelming acknowledgment within the scientific community that there is climate change. Of course th…
LEADER: That's Matt Handelman
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader,” John Quincy Adams said. As another school year ends, the staff at Hayden Meadows would like to extend a special…
LIBERAL: Connecting Dems, Hollywood
Eureka! I’ve found the unholy connection between Hollywood and the Democrat Party! You know how they’re joined in all things liberal? It’s because both live in a world of make-believe! Actors never know who they re…
BOOMERS: Those were the days
My generation, “the Baby Boomers,” has seen the massive collapse of the moral and civil fiber of America. Our children and grandchildren have been born into it and so consider it the norm. It was not always so.
WOLVES: Wrong funding choice
Commissioners from the Idaho Department Fish and Game (IDFG) recently hosted a meeting in Coeur d’Alene to take comments on various issues. One of those included, “Commission direction on expenditure of Department …
SUMMER: Keep on learning
Soon, final school bells will ring and students will run out of their classrooms ready for their summer adventure to begin. As parents, we need to take time this summer to talk with our kids about their passions an…