Letters to the Editor
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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 …
'JUNK MAIL': Liberal agenda on display
The front page, in your face, so-called junk mail article and the following opinion piece article a day later are another frightening and obvious reminder of ongoing attacks on freedom of speech by the Hagadone lef…
CONGRESS: Question of priorities
What if the members of Congress spent as much time working on solving the immigration problems, health care and education as they have on the impeachment and getting Trump out of office?
BIDEN: A little history helps
At age 43, Hunter Biden received an age waiver for a direct commission into the U.S. Navy Reserve. He also received a second Navy waiver for a prior drug-related incident.
JIMMY'S: Thanks for everything
With very mixed feelings, my wife and I recently decided that it was time to relinquish our ownership of Jimmy’s Down The Street, the breakfast and lunch diner that we have very successfully owned and operated for …
'JUNK MAIL': Decrying editorial decisions
In just two months, I find myself writing yet another letter of confusion and dismay with the paper’s editing choices.
TURNOUT: Two modest proposals
To help address the lack of voter participation in the primary elections, I would like to propose a couple of plans.
HOUSE: Keep government out
If Deborah Akers Mitchell, Cindy Ackley and Mayor Widmyer are so interested in saving the house at 627 N. Government Way, why don’t they, as a partnership, invest their own funds, purchase and renovate the house th…
GOLF: The ultimate pro
In Tuesday’s sports section there was an article about Tiger Woods tying Sam Sneed for the most PGA wins (82). There is another PGA. It is called the LPGA (for ladies). Neither Woods nor Snead holds the most profes…
REBUTTAL: Conservative vs. liberal
Dear Barb Crumpacker, I read your attack on the millions of Christians who happen to think that President Trump is God’s man of the hour. Admittedly, he is no saint. He says what he thinks and that upsets you.
POEM: Through the Leaves
Skip through the leaves, blithe and bonny.
THANKS: Yes, good news sells
I wanted to say thank you to Devin Weeks and the Coeur d’Alene Press. She did a story and photos of me making memento pieces with loved ones’ cremains (ashes) a few weeks ago.
LUNCHES: Stigma of poverty
Lately, I have read of an Idaho school district that serves different, less expensive lunches to students who have fallen behind or can’t pay for their lunches.
ELECTION: It's all partisan
In response to Dave Walker on Sunday, Oct. 27, he said he wants to know if the candidate for City Council is running on a political agenda. He said the City Council is the last bastion of non-partisan involvement. …
HAYDEN: 'Yes' on safety levy
Each citizen of this wonderful United States of America has the opportunity to be free to choose. We are free to write, say or do, according to our opinions. When we meet established qualifications, we have the rig…
FULCHER: He should be ashamed
Rep. Russ Fulcher stated he was proud to interrupt the impeachment hearing, along with the 30 other juvenile delinquent Republican representatives. These supposedly “adult” people took their cellphones into a SCIF …