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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 …
WISDOM: For these trying times
To all of the rabble rousers in our community:
COVID-19: Balance needed
The World Health Organization and government leaders mean well when it mandates that “nonessential businesses” shut down and people stay home. But their outlook is a single-visioned view of how to cope with the pro…
SCHOOLS: Wait for vaccine
Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is confident that a vaccine against COVID-19 will be offered to the public “by the end of this year and as we go into 2021.”
VIRUS: Team effort required
The coronavirus is real. It’s weird, it’s scary and sometimes it’s deadly.
IDEA: For children’s hospital
I must be a simple thinking person. Like when they built a baseball park, and they said the people would come and the people did. Or when a roller skate park was built and it filled with people. I know that we need…
PHD: Questions needing answers
1. If masks are so great preventing COVID virus, why have more than 1,100 Idaho health workers tested positive? Are they not trained for the use of N95 masks? Did these masks fail? Did they use incorrect masks? Are…
THUGS: Give then no quarter
I assume your experiences with coronavirus are similar to mine. I find it almost impossible to have a conversation with friends or family without the discussion being penetrated by thoughts pertaining to COVID-19. …
TRUMP: Leader, not a liar
In response to Sandra Boynton: You call our president “Liar in Chief.” That’s just CNN, MSNBC talking out of your rear end. D.J.T. as you call him has never lied to the American people. That’s the Democrats’ job.
McLANDRESS: Deserves full support
It saddens me to see the lack of support toward Dr. Richard McLandress, PHD board member, for his introduction and yes vote of the Kootenai County mask mandate. Dr. McLandress was my primary care physician for 20-p…
MILLENNIALS: Note to our seniors
Hi there, Baby Boomers. Wanted to introduce myself on behalf of all Millennials and get reacquainted with what seems to be a conversation started off on the wrong foot.
ACUPUNCTURE: Surprisingly helpful
In the fall of 2014, my husband was diagnosed with COPD. After multiple regimens of antibiotics, Prednisone and rescue inhalers, he’d had enough.
COVID-19: Numbers can lie
You can’t believe the numbers. Hospitals record a heart attack as COVID-19 related; a man is killed in a motorcycle accident and it is reported another COVID-19 death; anyone entering a hospital is automatically la…
MASKS: A word to the wise
In response to Kent Wise ‘MASK: Press pro-mask bias’:
ELECTION: Choose best leaders
Patricia Turner’s opinion piece from July 29, “What your Vote Gets,” was concise and an excellent breakdown of the choices between the two candidates for president.
COVID: Possible silver lining
The last time this nation came together was 9/11. And now, again, a horrible situation, COVID, has brought us together again. But this time the threat is throughout our nation and has given everyone a chance to be …