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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, 11 months ago
Rural issues, real solutions

It's hard to argue with common sense.

Updated 12 years, 11 months ago
Here's to traditional Halloween

Trunk or treat is fine. Harvest festivals at area churches offer safe and perhaps more efficient alternatives to going door-to-door the old-fashioned way.

Updated 12 years, 11 months ago
Heed this loud warning

At 10:50 a.m. Thursday, in the middle of the school morning, a clean-shaven young man with collar-length blond hair carried what looks like a guitar case into Lake City High School. If you watch the 15-second video…

Updated 12 years, 11 months ago
Fall back and be dazzled

Maybe we can put our political differences in the deep freeze for awhile. Maybe we can look beyond today's anxiety and contentiousness, past the fear of what might happen tomorrow or a little further down the road.…

Updated 12 years, 11 months ago
Something wicked this way comes

Oct. 31 won't mark the end of frightful things.

Updated 12 years, 12 months ago
Surplus a good problem to have

It's pretty easy to see which businesses spent unwisely and didn't plan for rainy days, from slight dips to deep recessions. They're the ones whose offices or storefronts are empty.

Updated 12 years, 12 months ago
Raspberries for Washington

If anybody on Capitol Hill is waiting for a standing ovation or even polite applause for ending the shutdown, they're going to be disappointed.

Updated 13 years ago
Press forward against hunger

Gwen McDonald, take a bow.

Updated 13 years ago
Voters, look out ahead

Score one for Peter Ward.

Updated 13 years ago
LCDC: Grow good jobs

If you take the candidates at their word, there's no chance Coeur d'Alene's urban renewal agency is headed for the guillotine.

Updated 13 years ago
Holding pattern on hydros

Race fans and foes holding their breath waiting for a bottom-line report on the Coeur d'Alene Diamond Cup races over Labor Day weekend: You're going to have to hold on a little longer. That's the word from Doug Mil…

Updated 13 years ago
Compassion was his

You can argue all you want about who's the most powerful person in Kootenai County, but until one week ago, here would have been our vote: Wayne Longo.

Updated 13 years ago
Cronkite, Brinkley just go together

A breath of fresh air blows into town tomorrow night.

Updated 13 years ago
All aboard the chamber express

If your business or organization isn't a member of the Coeur d'Alene Chamber of Commerce, it's time to reconsider. The chamber has always needed support, but perhaps now more than ever, the chamber deserves support.

Updated 13 years ago
The readers always write

Next Wednesday, the curtain goes up on the Coeur d'Alene City Council election.