NIC: Appropriate to ask why

Dave Walker’s response to my “ask why” letter didn’t come as a surprise.

Legals for March, 17 2023

Tension ignites over community college proposals

Three bills relating to the turbulence at North Idaho College are on their way through the Legislature. After introducing one bill Tuesday, the House Education Committee introduced two more Wednesday morning — but not without some friction.

MY TURN: North Idaho Republicans are the real conservatives

Jessica-Levy

Now might be a good time to mention that the conservatives who care about Kootenai County are represented by the North Idaho Republicans, NOT the Kootenai County GOP (KCRCC).

Legals for March, 16 2023

NIC: Encourage legislators to pass bill

A few days ago I felt like there was a beam of sunlight cutting through the dark cloud that has been hanging over our beloved community college for far too long. Rep. Lori McCann R-Lewiston and a member of the Idaho House Education Committee introduced a bill that could resolve the horrific situation that currently exists.

Legals for March, 14 2023

Huckleberries

One poet in time

If you’re like me, you’ve wondered what the late Bard of Sherman Avenue would do with today’s overripe local news cycles.

NIC: Alternative solution

For 32 years, I was employed in administrative positions at Washington State University, The University of Illinois, The Evergreen State College and The University of Denver. My last 23 years at Evergreen and Denver, I was an active participant in Board of Trustees meetings.

Legals for March, 11 2023

MY TURN: In defense of libraries and librarians

Your public library is being challenged by a small number of people in the community who believe the library is "blatantly sexualizing and grooming children." And that the library "encourage(s) the flow of erotica and obscenity."

OPINION: Canceling NIC

As you watch and listen to the public comments at the recent North Idaho College (NIC) Board of Trustee meetings you may be struck at how the demands of those testifying don’t match their actions. Faculty, students, staff and citizens would come to the microphone and for two minutes demand that the trustees fix the accreditation problem, or berate the trustees, or demand the trustees resign, or accuse the trustees of committing illegal acts, or threaten to recall the trustees, or on and on and on they go.

NIC: Blame lies with Banducci, McKenzie and Waggoner

How could it have come to this…that three men could kill 90 years of work, dedication, and donor and taxpayer dollars for an institution that has become a shining star of the North Idaho community?

CDA SCHOOL LEVIES: Vote no

Do you care about your voting rights? If you answer yes, then vote no on the Coeur d’Alene School District supplemental “forever-levy.”

REGAN: It’s not common sense

Brent Regan really does live in his own version of reality. In North Idaho he admits to being overwhelmingly conservative, he blames the pending loss of accreditation of NIC on all the crazy liberals running our community college into the ground. (Opinion piece, Feb. 24).

WOOD: Letter writer got it wrong about Christie

A recent letter to The Press suggesting that Christie Wood is responsible for the accreditation woes at NIC is inaccurate.

NIC: Regan and KCRCC should demand trustee resignations

To Brent Regan and the Kootenai County Central Committee: You endorsed and helped elect North Idaho College Board of Trustees: McKenzie, Waggoner and Banducci.

Legals for March, 10 2023

MY TURN: A plea to the NIC trustees

When I ran the Cd'A Area Chamber of Commerce from 1980 to 1987, when good folks and community and business leaders such as Bob Bemis of Northwest Timber, Harry Perry of GTE and Frank Henderson, past mayor of Post Falls, county commissioner and state senator, businesses and retailers had suffered through hard economic times. Businesses were closing, some forced out of business by high interest rates (18% and up). Spirits were down with the Russian invasion of Afghanistan foreshadowing war for the U.S., and paychecks for numerous support services and businesses stopped due to the closure of Bunker Hill and the smelter in the Silver Valley.

Legals for March, 9 2023