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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…
Vote 'yes' for Lakeland levy
Let’s pretend that your household income is $65,000, which is right at the state’s median.
Next up on controversy's hot plate
Because things have been so dull around here and nobody’s had any strong opinions about anything, we decided to serve up something juicy today: A new Media Bias Chart created by the Democratic National Committee.
Downtown Cd'A parking fees are reasonable
Let’s see a show of hands.
Support Post Falls school requests
One of the region’s hottest spots for growth has also been one of the places where the best planning for public schools has occurred.
Recall wrong way to address Dalton concerns
Seven years ago, a group of citizens launched a furious recall campaign against Coeur d’Alene Mayor Sandi Bloem and council members Mike Kennedy, Woody McEvers and Deanna Goodlander. While the recall effort failed …
A weapon in the battle against bias
If you’ve never heard of Patribotics or Infowars, consider yourself lucky.
As record falls, service stars stand tall
Rumors of Mother Nature’s nurturing tendencies are, alas, greatly exaggerated.
News flash on fake news and politics
New research by political scientists strongly suggests that despite their best efforts, Russian-generated fake news didn’t put Donald Trump on the presidential throne.
Make way for (and welcome) the millennials
Slow down a minute.
This saint stands tall among us
Our community overflows with unsung heroes.
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.