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LIBRARIES: Blank’s resignation was a true loss
Community Library Network Trustee Katie Blank resigned — a true loss of leadership and institutional knowledge. She’s been a protector of the free exchange of ideas and information and a shining example of citizen …
HISTORY: Honoring veterans, protecting the vulnerable
Recently, our family created a military “shadow box” for a grandfather who served in both world wars (1917-1947) and an uncle who served in WWII and Korea.
FIRE: Why weren’t there sprinklers and alarms?
Why in the world didn’t this building have a fire suppression/alarm system? Were building codes somehow circumvented?
GOP: Moderates wouldn’t try to stop voters
Dorothy Moon assured the Idaho GOP convention delegates that “we are not the fringe,” which was a crowd pleaser. That statement implies that they are either moderate, or completely off the map. As moderates, they a…
TRUMP: Your taxes will go up
Trump will not take taxes from corporations and CEOs so the burden of paying our nation’s debts will fall on us — individuals.
NIC: Board majority doesn’t have college’s best interests in mind
I appreciated Anne Patterson’s June 12, Press, “My Turn” column. Her distorted interpretation of facts exposed what may be a common misunderstanding of the problems created by the North Idaho College Board majority…
SALVATION: We are all freewill creatures
God didn’t make robots in His image. We all have the God-given ability to choose to do good or to do evil. How can we know the difference? Like any wise and reputable manufacturer, God gave an instruction manual fo…
COUNTY: Study group voted for no change
The Optional Forms of Government Study Commission was not discontinued due to persuasive testimony by any one group. The study group worked for a year and heard many public comments. No commenters were ever asked t…
DOWNTOWN: Keep kindness alive
I’m so heartbroken to hear of the recent derogatory remarks made to the youth of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe and to members of the basketball team from Utah in the downtown streets of Coeur d’Alene, a place I’ve been p…
GOOD OL’ DAYs: Plenty of good things about them
Susan Crowe’s Good ol’ Days column, June 8, is another in a long string of grievances by those who insist on keeping the memory of American wrongs and injustices, particularly, in Ms. Crowe’s case, committed by “th…
CONVENTION: Thank a Democrat
At this week’s Idaho Republican Party Convention in Coeur d’Alene, we will hear the usual mantra that the nation must be saved from the Democrat socialists, liberals and Marxists. We’ll hear from right-wing MAGA ex…
CAR d’LANE: Not about me
I’ve lived in Coeur d’Alene pushing 70 years. My family took The Press. I grew up with The Press. I delivered The Press after school to the paperboys (it was an afternoon paper). I once sold ads for The Press. I st…
NEW DEVELOPMENT: Taxes should add up
The time for the large headline was two years ago when Schneidmiller got Post Falls to alter general plan designation/zone for this property from Low Density, R-1, to RM, residential-mixed, and annexed it. Had it r…
IDENTITY: Judge on value to society
I don’t get people who need to wear their identity. Any identity.
THANK YOU: Lake Middle School was wonderful
Lakes Middle School is evolving and raising to the top in a dynamic community growing so rapidly. This year about 188 kiddos are leaving Lakes’ halls to walk into high school next school year, and to quote the scho…