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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…
A challenge for graduates
Congratulations to each and every graduating high school senior.
Desperate for some summer
Precisely 20 years ago, this newspaper published its first article from a man with an impressive weather scrapbook and an even better weather-vane brain.
Organic: Food for thought
Maybe it's not coincidence that the questions "What is life?" and "What is organic?" are two of the toughest to answer. After all, they both refer to living things, and what's more controversial or complex than tha…
Time for next issue
May the debate over IB/PYP RIP.
Anonymous and worthless
An Illinois senator used the Internet as a powerful tool to help him get elected to the nation's highest office. Millions of online readers, many of them young Americans who previously felt disenfranchised from the…
Our faire gentleman
You can do anything if you set your mind to it.
Have fun and remember them
What started out as Decoration Day has evolved into Memorial Day, a solemn yet joyous arrival on the calendar tomorrow.
Public safety concerns loom
Two bright new faces will join the Kootenai County Board of Commissioners, assuring that change is in the wind.
Principles yes, partisanship no
If the past decade has produced a more divisive primary election campaign season than this one, please name it.
County growing, but so is apathy
Voters, we're going the wrong way. In the past decade there have been five Kootenai County primary elections. The trend isn't just disturbing; it's demoralizing. Our apathy is getting the better of us, which means …
Have a blast, kick cancer
The question isn't "Has cancer touched your life?" It's "How has cancer touched your life?" The National Cancer Institute website (www.cancer.gov) provides statistics on 37 forms of cancer. The number of types of c…
Speak out or pay up
Washington state is forging ahead with its insistence that Idaho cities meet a more difficult standard of wastewater discharge than do Washington dischargers.
Jobs engine is here now
The region's powerful economic development arm, muscled by Steve Griffitts and Jobs Plus, is correctly aiming high on the business recruitment radar.
All aboard for China
If you'd like to play a bigger role in a shrinking world, we have one word for you: Zhongguo!
Have a heart for veterans
If a heart can break with pain and burst with pride at the same time, it did Friday night.