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Updated 2 weeks, 4 days ago

OPINION: Just like everyone else, Idaho’s Attorney General must comply with the law

Three years ago, I joined five other former Idaho Attorneys General in describing that important position as “the …

Updated 1 week ago
CHRISTIANS: Comments contain lies

Together in a Bible study with old friends, we meditated on a verse of Psalm 109: “..He stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.”

Updated 1 week ago
WATER: Who is using it all?

To anyone that is onboard with raising water rates. Please explain in detail what impact fees are? Purpose of those? Where dispersed? Now all funds/fees with new building permits? Don’t forget hook up fees etc., th…

Updated 1 week ago
ONE SITE: Grateful for concern, support

We at One Site for Seniors are so grateful for the outpouring of concern and community support since the article about our temporary closing was published in the Coeur d’Alene Press on May 10.

Updated 1 week ago
BILL: Time to act now

None of us — Republicans, Democrats or Independents — want to live in a dictatorship. That’s what we’re facing, though, if the so-called Big Beautiful Bill passes.

Updated 1 week ago
RESPONSE: Why do we have to celebrate?

George: I understand the perspective you’re coming from.

Updated 1 week, 2 days ago
DOWNTOWN: Coeur no more

This past Friday, not having been downtown for quite a while, we decided to park by NIC, walk through town, then have dinner.

Updated 1 week, 2 days ago
ELECTIONS: Inaccuracies and unlawfulness

INRE Dave Pierson’s Elections Letter June 8, I would refer him (and others who believe as he does that there is “simply no evidence to support” large, serious examples of real and potential fraud inducing actions/i…

Updated 1 week, 2 days ago
DANGER: Debris at Atlas Mill River Park

This weekend, a large log embedded with rusted bolts and metal plates washed ashore at Atlas Mill River Park — right at the main waterfront steps where people enter and exit the river. The log appears to have come …

Updated 1 week, 2 days ago
WHY: Understanding leftists/Democrats

Why oh why are there so many why’s when it comes to trying to understand the mindsets of leftists/Democrats? Please follow along…

Updated 1 week, 2 days ago
WOODY: A big win for Osburn

Congratulations to Osburn Chief of Police Jason Woody. I no longer live in the Silver Valley, but I was born and raised there and raised my children there. I must say there is no better officer or person than Jason…

Updated 1 week, 2 days ago
ICE: Workers get picked out

While watching a little news today it showed a beautiful strawberry field in Ventura, Calif., full of ripe, delicious fruit. Next it showed workers being picked out of the field instead of the berries, leaving the …

Updated 1 week, 4 days ago
POEM: Big beautiful mess

My thoughts as interpreted by AI: He struts like a king with a Diet Coke crown, but he’s tantrum and Twitter and always let down. By “facts,” “by truth,” by grown-up tone — he talks like a bully with a megaphone.

Updated 1 week, 4 days ago
PRIDE: Why do we have to celebrate it?

Don’t get it, This Pride stuff for the alphabet group, what are they proud of? Should we have Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, etc., pride month also?

Updated 1 week, 4 days ago
SOUZA: Needs to formulate a better argument

Mary Souza and her other Republican associates have made the case that the KCRCC is led by a Libertarian/John Bircher who possesses Svengali-like powers and whose followers are a bunch of brainless minions. OK, I g…

Updated 1 week, 4 days ago
REGAN: Show him at the ballot box

How low is a snake’s belly? I think we all just saw the metric by reading the great column by Mary Souza (Coeur d’Alene Press June 6) as she described the actions of Chairman Brent Regan and the majority of the KCR…