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LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER: The people who hold communities together
Starting June 15, nominations will open for local Weaver recognition and community grants. The nomination period w…
Art, religion aren't always best friends
Twenty years ago, Brigham Young University landed a prized exhibit by renowned French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The university, owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, chose not to show four of the …
Next school board election starts now
The Press has supported Sen. Mary Souza’s efforts to move school board elections from obscure spring dates to the much more popular November general election cycle. Our reasoning is fairly simple: Single digits. Th…
If we could all just be Scouts
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has every right to withdraw tens of thousands of boys and young men from Boy Scouts of America membership. The church foots the membership fee bill for its Scouts and…
Yes, even deadbeats deserve another chance
Michael J. Murphy of Hayden is one of our favorite letter writers because, bless him, he tells it exactly the way he sees it.
The other side of a recession
The local restaurant owner complains because he has to pay a dishwasher $10 an hour. He’s got to pay almost 30 percent above minimum wage because nobody will take the job for less. As an employer, that hurts.
Senator's sayonara too soon
Hilde Kellogg served in the Idaho Legislature for 20 of her 92 years, but it felt like only a term or two.
Minimum wage debaters, check this out
You can’t take the University of Washington study and deposit it in the bank, exactly, but advocates of big minimum wage increases should at least consider its warnings.
The very, very, very best action flicks
Star Wars (1977).
A moment to praise our seniors
Idaho is keeping seniors and attracting hordes more.
He did it - and so can you
If Vegas had been taking bets on Julian Redman’s bid to ride an overgrown tricycle (minus one small wheel) from sea to shining sea, Press staffers Lisa James and Devin Heilman would be wealthy young ladies today.
Here's a cheer for fiscal health
Our roads and bridges need many millions of dollars of work.
United we stand for a strong USA
Editor’s note: In what has become a Fourth of July holiday tradition, we’re reprinting one of this newspaper’s most popular editorials. This is the 15th anniversary of its first publication.
Resolution to (cough) even the score
WHEREAS, the state of Washington in general and the city of Spokane quite specifically have hoisted upon Kootenai County the highest water quality standards on Earth because they’re afraid of a little extra fizz in…
California, here we come (again)
Bob McAdams seems to have touched a nerve with his My Turn column published last Saturday. Under the headline “7 points to ponder on Idaho etiquette,” McAdams notes that many people continue to move to North Idaho …
Time to ground the helicopters
‘Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.’ — Yogi Berra