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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 …
CHRISTIANS: Time to take politics out of faith
That’s right, Nationalist Christians of America. While you call the rest of the country “woke” and deceived, it looks like you got played by the “Deep State” you claim to oppose.
LIBRARIES: Real victims are the patrons
Community Library Network chair Tom Hanley recently published a My Turn column in which he claimed that other libraries in the Cooperative Information Network had voted to “boot out” the CLN. He casts the CLN as a …
KOHBERGER: Justice not served yet
Finally, the Kohberger trial is over and he was sentenced to four life terms in prison. Was justice served? No, I don’t think so.
THANKS: Businesses support community
I’ve lived in the Silver Valley for 60 years and have never been so appreciative of the businesses from Rose Lake to Mullan. Their contributions for the Silver Valley Community Resource Center Spring Fling Silent A…
E-BIKES: Courteous is always best
A month ago I purchased a recumbent fat wheel trident trike (a three-wheeler). I already have 169 miles trail riding. My trike is a partial assist pedal bike. I’m in my late 80s and haven’t been able to bike ride f…
LIBRARIES: Efforts appreciated
To the staff of the soon to be formed Inland Northwest Libraries: Thank you for the work you have done and the work you will be doing in the upcoming months to transition the Cooperative Information Network, the re…
TRUMP: President is getting immigration mess under control
In response to Dolores Welch and her letter about immigration and her concern about the way ICE is doing their job. In the first place, we wouldn’t have this mess if Biden hadn’t willingly created it. Trump was ele…
TARRIFS: President given expanded powers
Juana Perley’s LTE was published in The Press on July 16. She wants someone to show President Trump the Constitution, which he swore to uphold, and quoted Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, saying it “belong…
RESPONSE: A case of DTS
I grieve for Juana Perley and how she must be suffering under President Trump. For the second time in just a few weeks she has used this page as her personal vanity press. In so doing, she has repeatedly allowed De…
HUCKLEBERRIES: Thanks for memory
Your Huckleberries article mentioning the Girl Scout Round Up of July 1965. I was camping with a family on Cocolalla for a week.
TRUMP: Not happy with president
When I see how ICE goes about dragging the immigrants away, it makes my heart hurt. Sending them to prisons in other countries, which by the way, costs us taxpayers millions of dollars, with no hope, pulled away fr…
FINK: Legacy will live on
On behalf of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations Board, I express our board’s deepest sympathy to the family of Michelle Fink. She was a very successful businesswoman in Coeur d’Alene as well as a rem…
E-BIKES: Dangerous to pedestrians
On Sept. 6, 2022, my 63-year-old brother was struck and killed by an e-bike while walking on a pedestrian path in Marin County, Calif.
COUNCIL: Protect our pedestrians
Like everywhere else in Kootenai County, Dalton Gardens has become a raceway. I am 81 and retired, so I am home quite a lot outdoors pruning, mowing, and general maintenance, so I see and hear the road all day long…
BILL: Let’s get real about the Medicaid reform
I looked forward with some trepidation to Dr. Stark’s article. As a surgeon he sees Medicaid from the provider’s side but as a doctor his patient concern provides an important perspective. As a person associated wi…