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Editorial

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Updated 4 months ago

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…

Updated 12 years ago
Landing an effective blow

Yes, the photo on A1 Sunday was objectionable. It was insensitive. Hopefully, it also was effective.

Updated 12 years, 1 month ago
All together: Go Cardinals!

Your community college doesn't merely prepare students for further studies and careers.

Updated 12 years, 1 month ago
First understand, then let 'er rip

Maybe they think of themselves as education evangelists.

Updated 12 years, 1 month ago
Help rally the voters

With North Idaho politics dominated by all things GOP and many of the hottest contests already decided in the May primary, the general election now less than eight weeks away is virtually meaningless, right?

Updated 12 years, 1 month ago
Arfee, citizens left in the dark

After arduous and even life-threatening exterior illumination efforts, Clark W. Griswold has the family gathered in the front yard for the much-anticipated lighting ceremony in the holiday classic "Christmas Vacati…

Updated 12 years, 1 month ago
Minimum wage game-changer

President Obama wasn't speaking to a bunch of small business owners on Labor Day when he once again lauded the importance - the necessity? - of significantly raising the minimum wage.

Updated 12 years, 1 month ago
Sorry to see tourists go

If you're glad those blasted tourists have finally dried up and blown away like pesky leaves, maybe you should hold off the celebration.

Updated 12 years, 1 month ago
The route to school success

Begin with the end in mind.

Updated 12 years, 1 month ago
Local civics quiz, take two

Former Post Falls Mayor Clay Larkin kindly called it a "kerfuffle" when he contacted The Press to alert us that there were some errors in the civics literacy quiz we published in Wednesday's paper.

Updated 12 years, 1 month ago
Test your knowledge of local civics

As promised in Sunday's editorial, here is the first of two quizzes designed to test our readers' knowledge of local civics.

Updated 12 years, 1 month ago
Test your local civics knowledge

Constitutional scholar David Adler hit the bull's-eye this summer with his column declaring Americans' civic literacy ignorance poses a serious threat to the Republic.

Updated 12 years, 1 month ago
Protecting lake, just good governance

We all know there is a physical and sometimes philosophical gap that exists between the state capitol and Idaho's northern counties. An insider in the political and legislative scene in Boise recently said - during…

Updated 12 years, 1 month ago
Look what Dane's done

It's here. The North Idaho Fair and Rodeo opens today, marking the high point of the summer, if not the year, for climatologist Cliff Harris.

Updated 12 years, 1 month ago
Teachers, take that fair offer

Great teachers are worth their weight in gold.

Updated 12 years, 2 months ago
The thing about suicide

Think about the headline in Wednesday's paper.