Editorial
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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…
Fairness: Food for thought, Cd'A
If you've ever leased an apartment for any length of time and scratched your head when the owners or managers gave discounts and bonuses to new arrivals - but not to the loyal, on-time paying renters who already li…
Tribute to triumphant Trojans
What the Post Falls High School boys basketball team did this season, capped by a state championship Saturday night, can be described in a multitude of ways.
Don't miss important appointment
Tuesday is going to be more than a beautiful, warm, late-winter day across Kootenai County. It will also be a time of reckoning for Post Falls and Coeur d'Alene school districts.
The Internet, the FCC and you
Last week's landmark decision by the Federal Communications Commission - a clearly difficult 3-2 splitting of the hairs - to impose strict rules on broadband service affects every American. In our view, this "net n…
Beware the rhetoric on teacher pay
For years, Idaho's education vehicle has been in neutral. The Great Recession and Questionable Priorities put that vehicle on an icy hill. It has not slid forward.
Whispering two joyful
Let's turn away from the political silliness - soft landing spots for former elected officials, reproductive anatomy lessons, pending eviction of all non-Christian Idahoans - and pad around this first Sunday mornin…
We're a nation - and state - of free people
We could consider what in the wide, wide world of sports would lead someone to think Idaho would ever label itself a "Christian state." Lack of education, particularly in civics, might be near the top of that list,…
Grade for 2015 Legislature? It's not good
Idaho legislators, you might want to look the other way for a moment.
Bring on your PIO, county
Reporters and editors aren't high on many popular professions lists. But there's a rung on the ladder even lower, in the eyes of some journalists. It's called, Public Information Officer.
Why schools need your attention
Education in Idaho is at a critical but exciting juncture.
One route to progress
A reader on cdapress.com elicited a chuckle or two when he shared this joke at the end of a recent story about the issues local legislators are working on:
These costs should be illegal
Since 2011, Idaho has spent $10 million a year on private legal counsel. That's in addition to the budget for the Idaho Attorney General, which in the current year is $21.4 million for its 120 attorneys and 70 addi…
Young, hard bodies are overrated
Love is in the air; tomorrow is Valentine's Day. And today is Friday the 13th.
The truth about liars
A talking news head might not be 100 percent honest? We're shocked! Not that Brian Williams might've bolstered the autobiography just a wee bit, but that the minions in TV land are dismayed, outraged and ain't gonn…
As airport soars, so does our economy
Most of you reading this are far more familiar with the airport one state over than you are with the one right in your backyard.