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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 …
HONESTY: A Cd'A trademark
Last Saturday, I planned on attending a celebration of life. I started out by getting some cash for stocking stuffers from the bank and completing a busy Saturday. Lo and behold it happened: I couldn’t find the cel…
LAWS: Can't pick, choose
Once Trump takes office, mayors and supporters of sanctuary cities are going to learn a lesson that then-President Eisenhower taught to then-Arkansas governor Orval Faubus, who had refused to desegregate Little Roc…
TRUMP: Get over it
I started to compose a detailed response to Daniel Gressler’s letter of Dec. 7 when I suddenly thought, why waste my time on yet another whimpering, whining message from a sore-loser Democrat? So I will simply repe…
ORV PARK: Wrong location
Who doesn’t love the peaceful beauty of Farragut State Park? It is such an awesome place for communing with nature and enjoying the wildlife, amazing starry nights, and peaceful campgrounds! Well, if the proposed O…
PARK: Area mismatch
Kootenai County’s reckless scheme of a massive off-road vehicle park on Twete Road would inflict an irreparable wound on an extraordinary rural landscape. The area is visited by thousands of people yearly looking t…
MUSIC MAN: Note of gratitude
It was with great joy that I read your article about Mr. Fahringer and that he is being honored. In a letter about him two or three years ago, I wrote that I had seen him in a picture at Post Falls taken in 1923 an…
AFRICA: Painful reminders
Some of you know that Betsy and I have been in West Africa for several weeks volunteering in a small coastal school. Most of our stories are of heartwarming encounters and amazing adventures.
TEACHER: Resignation welcomed
In the absence of appropriate action-taking by local public school officials regarding Jeff Kantola, a certified social deviate, it is a relief that for whatever reasons, he has now resigned from being allowed a jo…
MARINES: We salute you
I wondered how long it would be before I simply HAD to write a letter to the editor. We’ve been here about a month, having relocated from a state and city where the politics simply drove us out. Monday’s headline i…
PRAYER: Plea for help
Dear God,
FUTURE: Letter to descendants
Last month I wrote a letter addressed to our grandchildren and (yet unborn) great-grandchildren. I indicated that the letter was to be read in 20 years, in 2036. I wrote that we were writing in response to the elec…
DEMENTIA: Dolls matter
A group called CDA Crazy Love reached out to many residents and wanted to help with my goal to help reach into the long-term memory of my lovely residents suffering from this disease. There has been so much respons…
ORV PARK: No way, county
Approving an off road park on Tweete Road is crazy. The reason people come to this area to vacation is the quiet and tranquility, and this is why we moved here to get the family values back to what they should be: …
A LOVE POEM
There aren’t enough words in our language,
ELECTION: Real deplorables
I’m getting a real kick out of seeing and listening to all of these sobbing, sniveling and whining liberal losers in the Democratic Party, the media, Hollywood and in the streets who are having a meltdown over Nurs…