Opinion
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MICA: Don't be misled, voters
As a 20-year medical volunteer with MKI Fire, a person who has been intimately involved in District finances since the addition of the medical unit in 1995 and current sitting MKIFD Treasurer for the past 7 years, …
ENGLISH: Not best for city
Our county suffered embezzlement when Dan English was County Clerk. The embezzler worked for him. At a trial he perjured himself.
EDINGER: A neighborhood champ
Ron Edinger deserves your vote for the Coeur d’Alene City Council so he can continue serving the residents of this community as he has for the past 40 years. When our east Mullan neighborhood was seeking changes to…
ENGLISH: Why he is qualified
My firm endorsement of candidate Dan English for City Council, Seat 5, currently held by Steve Adams, is not without my research into his background. I’ve found him to be a strong candidate. First of all, his reaso…
LUNDY: Honesty just one attribute
The citizens of Dalton Gardens will be well served when they elect Denise Lundy to their City Council. Over the last eight years I have had the distinct pleasure of serving with Denise in various leadership capacit…
Two tests to attract your votes
On Tuesday, Kootenai County residents are going to select a couple dozen people to represent them on city councils and on fire district boards. Who’s going to get your vote?
GUNS: Put 'em down and talk
Wednesday, Oct. 28, Bill Rutherford wrote an extremely thoughtful article about being a gun owner and hunter while also being the principal of a local elementary school. In that role he has the responsibility of pr…
SCHINDELBECK: It's time for change
Reading Wednesday’s CDA Press, we are committed more than ever to vote against Ron Edinger. So he has been in since Nixon was president and feels he needs no training, he knows it all. Does he know that a vast majo…
MILLIE: Eating her own words
Seeing Millie’s entry into “Readers Write” section last Sunday I thought well, for once she’s not whining or complaining about something living up here. But she didn’t disappoint. She’s at it again.
ABORTION: Common sense solutions
Abortion, like many other hot-button issues is, but not in today’s polarized political environment, a subject in which compromise is possible. I personally advocate a compromise:
BLOOD: Bias against donors
“I’m sorry but we cannot accept your lifesaving donation.”
VOTE: For strong oversight
In light of the three recent cases of embezzlement in the city of Athol, Cd’A and the chief deputy clerk of the county under Dan English, isn’t it time that the voters recognize we have a pervasive problem with lac…
ART: It's what makes us human
Thanks to Sholeh Patrick for writing about art in her column. Being an artist and working in the arts for the past 34 years has been the most rewarding thing I could ever think of doing.
DEBATE: Question the questioners
If you ever thought that the Democratic Party and the national media were unethical and dishonest you were given clear proof Wednesday night at the Republican presidential debate. Attitude of the questioners, the g…
LAKELAND: Still no love, Press
Well here I am again writing on behalf of the small high school Lakeland Hawks. So Wednesday morning I open the sports page to find once again a HUGE photo of the Mighty Lake City High boys soccer team plastered at…