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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 6 years, 10 months ago
This protest isn't about intolerance

You remember Ganesha.

Updated 6 years, 11 months ago
Our waists tell a sad parking story

Let’s pick on parking.

Updated 6 years, 11 months ago
Three veterans you're lucky to meet

In honor of Veterans Day, we’d like to salute three in particular.

Updated 6 years, 11 months ago
Expectations exceed transit hub's purpose

Let’s say it all together and then utter it no more: Kootenai County’s transit hub is exactly what was promised.

Updated 6 years, 11 months ago
Don't believe a political word in Facebook ads

Voters, beware.

Updated 6 years, 11 months ago
Cd'A voters, keep a good thing going

For Coeur d’Alene residents, Tuesday’s election is more than three choices between seven passionate candidates. It’s a referendum on the State of the City by the Lake.

Updated 6 years, 11 months ago
Misinformation sandwiches ruin a good appetite

Say “cheese” all you want. When people react and overreact to mere bites of information from a full meal story, nobody ends up smiling.

Updated 6 years, 11 months ago
Here's your Halloween challenge

Politically divided.

Updated 6 years, 11 months ago
Salary salvage is a slap in taxpayer faces

It’s time for Kootenai County to end the practice of “salary salvage,” and if other entities relying on taxpayer dollars are playing a similar game, stop now. There is no salvation from salary salvage.

Updated 6 years, 11 months ago
Support Hayden in its public safety request

Forget the scare tactics.

Updated 6 years, 12 months ago
Passionate about pink in October

The power of pink.

Updated 7 years ago
Well, Earl, you sure didn't get cheated

If Purple Hearts were awarded for every time a person made others’ lives appreciably better, Earl Hyde Jr.’s coffin would be blanketed 3 inches thick.

Updated 7 years ago
NIC sports controversy: facts, fiction

Many in the community are upset with North Idaho College President Rick MacLennan and the school’s Board of Trustees for parting with Athletic Director Al Williams and agreeing to unfair penalties from the Northwes…

Updated 7 years ago
Joe hatches a beautiful, ghastly idea

Q. What room does a ghost not need?

Updated 7 years ago
Let's empower Idaho's leaders in education

Local entrepreneur Brent Regan opened the door to a healthy discussion about improving public education recently with a three-part series in The Press. His key point was that the tools to learn and the learners the…