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Editorial
To find our opinion based editorials, see below. We'll share opinion based editorial articles regularly for interested viewers.
EDITORIAL: Getting through the parent trap
Help can come through many sources - including you
Prop 2 shows the process actually works
Hallelujah, and pass the Prop 2.
School funding model is one we're stuck with
School levy and bond issues are coming to Kootenai County soon. Coeur d’Alene, Lakeland, Post Falls and Plummer-Worley all have funding requests going before voters.
Hill gets steeper for school votes
In a public setting recently, a citizen was heard complaining about the injustice of using school buildings as polling places when school funding is on the ballot. It didn’t seem to matter when it was explained tha…
Stand firm against any partisan push
Partisanship in America has become a pollutant, if not a poison. Ideological mass on the far left and the far right threatens to rip our country right down the middle, where the strength of cooperation and compromi…
So this is what real leaders do
We searched through the pages of Mayoral Responsibilities for Dummies and couldn’t find what we were looking for there.
Why Hunter's case should matter to you
If you’re looking for a poster child in the quest to test judicial fairness in your backyard, Wiley Hunter isn’t a likely suspect.
NIC vs. Whitcomb: There's more to this story
Few things are exactly as they initially seem.
No place to park common sense
The starving anti-regulation crowd was served a steaming feast in Coeur d’Alene.
Wake up and debate start times
Coeur d’Alene School District is smart in taking nine months or so to dissect, research, argue for, argue against and then possibly make a decision on later start times for adolescent students.
County clerk enjoys a banner day
Wednesday was doubly sweet for Kootenai County Clerk Jim Brannon.
Give county credit where it's due
Commissioners Marc Eberlein and Bob Bingham, thank you.
Stage is set for districts to move forward
When Coeur d’Alene School District trustees meet Jan. 22, the road leading to a new elementary school on Prairie Avenue should be smoothed out.
Little points Idaho in the right direction
So it took 4,012 words. Idaho’s newly minted governor left no hot topic untouched in his first State of the State address.
Voters' trust hangs in the balance
On today’s op-ed page, Jim Brannon’s recently defeated opponent accurately points out the opaque nature of the clerk’s view of transparency.
Imagine giving for the very best reasons
The Sunday after Thanksgiving, we promised to share with you information about a better way of giving that’s headed Kootenai County’s way.