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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 8 years, 3 months ago
Taking steps to promote better understanding

Newspapers and their readers aren’t always speaking the same language.

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Declaring a truce on newspaper assumptions

When you assume, the British comedian Benny Hill famously noted, you make an ASS out of U and ME.

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Getting Press readers, writers on the same page

Despite greeting each other every morning and spending so much time together, often in jammies and slippers over a cup of hot coffee, newspaper reporters and readers apparently don’t know each other very well.

Updated 8 years, 4 months ago
Here's what dads really want

Editor’s note: This editorial was originally published six years ago today.

Updated 8 years, 4 months ago
We could be looking at voter turnout wrong

The quest started out as most modern searches do: Going to Google.

Updated 8 years, 4 months ago
Summer's coming: Let's put our fires out

North Idahoans hadn’t even been able to tear June off their calendars last year before smoke made summer miserable.

Updated 8 years, 4 months ago
Just ask

Our kids are killing themselves.

Updated 8 years, 4 months ago
Return Charter to its rightful throne

Interpretation of a well-meaning state privacy law has kicked Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy into an educational ditch of anonymity. Yet it’s the state that got muddy.

Updated 8 years, 4 months ago
Your airport is a bargain, taxpayers

The anonymous letter to the editor asked a fair question: Because the vast majority of Kootenai County residents don’t fly into or out of the Coeur d’Alene Airport, why should they pay for it?

Updated 8 years, 4 months ago
Mandate needed to make our schools safe

For most of America, the end of the 2017-18 school year can’t get here soon enough.

Updated 8 years, 4 months ago
Web-slinger might be coming to a class near you

Behind that mask is a hero.

Updated 8 years, 4 months ago
Schools take hit now for better future

During a brief, at times tense Coeur d’Alene School Board meeting last week, something was missing. Did anybody notice?

Updated 8 years, 4 months ago
The debt we refuse to pay

You might be preparing for church, a family barbecue, maybe a date with a famous car race today.

Updated 8 years, 4 months ago
You can smell a conflict from far away

Conflicts of interest look complicated. But are they really?

Updated 8 years, 4 months ago
Yep, old guys (and gals) really do rule

The rocking chair and blankie are going to have to wait a while longer for Dennis Erickson.