LIBRARY NETWORK ELECTION: Vote for Meyer and McCrea

Vote May 16 to re-elect trustees Judy Meyer and Regina McCrea to our Community Library Network Board. Thanks to current and previous boards, we have seven incredible community libraries and three bookmobiles. Our libraries offer groups and classes for children’s story times, knitting, crocheting, Book Babies, Imagination Explorers, senior game days, art, Yoga, meeting rooms, computers and Fit and Fall just to name a few.

LIBRARY NETWORK ELECTION: Vote for Meyer and McCrea

As a Coeur d’Alene resident, I can’t vote for library trustees in the Community Library Network, but I can understand the impact of electing freedom-trouncing people on library services throughout North Idaho. They say they want to protect children but what is really happening is an attempt to control the freedom to read for everybody. Untrue scare tactics and a complete absence of understanding of how libraries run are definitely not characteristics of anyone who should be on a library board.

LIBRARY NETWORK ELECTION: Vote for Meyer and McCrea

Please vote for Judy Meyer and Regina McCrea for Community Library Network Trustees. The Community Library Network is a valuable resource for Kootenai and Shoshone counties. The network has grown to seven county branches and three bookmobiles, making reading materials accessible to everyone in the region.

LIBRARY NETWORK ELECTION: Vote for Meyer and McCrea

Trustees serve as advocates of intellectual freedom. Tim Plass announced his candidacy for the North Idaho College Zone 5 trustee seat in August 2022. In his release statement, Plass noted a need to, “…realign NIC’s direction to reflect the values of the community.” Plass later withdrew his name from consideration with Mike Waggoner receiving the official endorsement. However, he shared this same message as reasoning for pursuing the CLN trustee role. Ron Hartman, while running for the Zone 1 trustee role with NIC provided more clarity during a podcast by stating the college should reflect the Christian values of the community.

NIC trustee asks State Board of Ed to intervene

With a decision about North Idaho College’s accreditation on the horizon and board dysfunction continuing, one trustee has asked the Idaho State Board of Education to intervene in the hopes of saving NIC.

Legals for May, 9 2023

Lakeland district drafting policy for Heritage Health agreement

A Lakeland Joint School District committee began working last week on a policy called for as the district prepares to renew an agreement that allows Heritage Health to meet with students who are clients on district campuses.

Barbs traded over books, budgets, more

Library trustees face off during candidate town hall

Does banning books protect freedom? That was one of the questions asked of Community Library Network trustee candidates who participated Saturday in a town hall hosted by the League of Women Voters of Kootenai County at the American Legion Post 143 in Post Falls.

LIBRARY NETWORK ELECTION: Vote for Plass and Hanley

Children’s books featuring incest and rape are indefensible. Since they cannot defend such books in the library network they helped build, Meyer and McCrea resort to calling their opponents extremists for wanting to remove this filth from the minors’ areas. Passages newspapers cannot print.

Community Library Network announces new director

The Community Library Network Board of Trustees has named Alexandria “Alexa” Eccles as the new director of the Community Library Network.

Press endorsements for May 16 election

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OPINION: Call me crazy

In Saul Alinsky’s Marxist handbook “Rules for Radicals” Alinsky advises that “ridicule is your most powerful weapon.” This seems to be a lesson well learned as evidenced by nearly every Letter to the Editor or comment section which contains some name calling, insults, ad homonym attack, or slur.

HOSPITAL TRUSTEE CANDIDATES: More info needed

In preparing to vote on May 16, I am trying to find out as much as I can about the candidates to make an informed decision on the upcoming election. There is not much out there. I do not know any of the candidates personally. I feel fairly well informed about the school levies and the library trustees due to reading the paper, but what about the hospital trustees, and is it even relevant now that a nonprofit model is being adopted.

LIBRARY NETWORK ELECTION: Vote for Meyer and McCrea

I am the middle child of five — all voracious readers. I remember my mother taking me to the library to get my first library card, right after I learned to read. She did this with each of us, and it was always followed by a family celebration — a rite of passage and an opportunity to avail ourselves of all the knowledge, beauty, mystery and wonder of the world — right from our local library.

LIBRARY NETWORK ELECTION: Vote for Meyer and McCrea

Those of us in elected office all have moments where we reflect upon what it means to be a public servant. For some it’s the appeal of “being somebody.” For others it’s a paycheck, or a commitment to a partisan ideology. Fortunately, there are public officials who serve because they have a servant’s heart. The last category is how I describe my dear friend and role model Judy Meyer and her fellow CLN library trustee Regina McCrea.

North Idaho Republicans announces election endorsements

North Idaho Republicans announced its endorsements for the Tuesday, May 16 election.

Legals for May, 5 2023

Several accreditation outcomes possible for NIC

The fate of North Idaho College is expected to be revealed in July, when the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities announces whether it will retain accreditation. If the college loses accreditation, it may be impossible to regain.

Judge upholds Swayne’s reinstatement

A Kootenai County judge reaffirmed her order requiring North Idaho College to reinstate Nick Swayne as the college’s active president. Judge Cynthia Meyer issued a written decision Wednesday afternoon denying NIC’s request that she overturn her March decision, which forced the college to restore Swayne to his job while his lawsuit seeking permanent reinstatement proceeds.

MY TURN: Regan and the Idaho Freedom Foundation insult and undermine voters

Wow, Brent Regan has managed to insult everyone in Coeur d’Alene and more generally in Kootenai County. I am addressing his "Opinion: For the kids screed" from April 14.