Cd'A superintendent accepts position in Oregon

Cook to remain in current position through end of school year

Cook to remain in current position through end of school year

Community Thanks May 1, 2011

PROJECT: Effort improves facility

BUDGET: You can assist state

Amid wars, world turmoil and ominous economic forecasts, we need to do our best to manage our own state affairs in a calm, balanced way. There can be a tendency to plan state budgets primarily to favor business interests. Citizens unable to care for themselves or contact legislators could be forgotten. Budgets should reflect considerations for all our people.

OPINIONS: Don't forget some facts

Please educate yourselves before writing an opinion, an informed opinion holds much more clout than a rant. Living in the rightest and reddest state in America carries a lot of privileges and freedoms that I covet, it also bears resounding ignorance at times that makes me shameful of fellow man.

State should recognize, encourage high achievers

As juniors in high school, we are concerned about our future. Since we have started high school, we have taken on challenging classes in an effort to prepare ourselves for higher education. We all started taking high school level classes in middle school in preparation to take college classes that we are currently enrolled in as high school students.

Improving bone health

As we are realizing the deterioration of bone health is reaching epidemic levels in the US, we must look at what factors are involved that are within our control.

Well said, mayor - and chief

In his State of the City speech Tuesday, Coeur d'Alene Mayor Steve Widmyer mentioned the names of family members, City Council members, fellow regional mayors of Post Falls, Rathdrum, Hayden and Fernan Lake Village, and the director of the Downtown Association.

Olson: Peaceful student protests OK

Dr. Stan Olson, superintendent of Coeur d’Alene public schools, read the following statement at Monday night’s school board meeting. School officials shared it Tuesday with district staff, families, high school students and community members.

State bestows honor on Sgt. Greg Moore

COEUR d’ALENE — Sgt. Greg Moore is receiving the Idaho Medal of Honor posthumously.

Wood announces City Council reelection campaign

Christie Wood announced her campaign for reelection to the Coeur d’Alene City Council. Wood said, in a news release, that she is running for reelection because the city needs the experience and voice for public safety on the council and she intends to continue in that role. Wood served 26 years as a police officer with the City of Coeur d'Alene and said she fully understands the challenges of both police and firefighters.

After rough year, Idaho ed needs support

Economy, quality of life hang in the balance.

Yes, we can grow responsibly

Unless you have been living in a cave for the past year or so, you have been exposed to the unprecedented influx of newcomers to our area.

OPINION: 2024 starts now

Just yesterday we went to the polls and elected folks who will lead our cities, our schools, and our fire districts. Now we must respect the election results, and those who won.

THE FRONT ROW with MARK NELKE: Commish on the state of the Big Sky

Before all hell broke loose in college sports, Big Sky Conference commissioner Tom Wistrcill stood in the hallway of a casino in Airway Heights, Wash., in mid-July and provided a “state of the conference” of sorts to a handful of reporters.

KTigers Taekwondo - A way of life not just kicking, punching

Located in beautiful Coeur d' Alene, KTigers Taekwondo offers the most extensive and holistic system of martial arts training for students in the art of Taekwondo. KTigers is an educational and family oriented institution that is dedicated to helping our students reach their maximum potential by setting and achieving sustainable goals and keeping our body, mind, and spirit in perfect health and harmony.

Please help us, Spokane

Because we in Kootenai County are quite helpless and ofttimes clueless, we appreciate our enlightened neighbors to the west watching out for us.

TSA SCANS: Israel has better option

Why do we subject millions of our nation's airline passengers to either a full body scan or, if refused, to a humiliating, intrusive "pat down?" Why doesn't our government follow time-tested security guidelines used by the Israelis to protect their fellow airline passengers, which over the years has proven highly effective in thwarting terrorist threats? My understanding of Israel's procedures for deterring terrorist activity doesn't involve body scans but relies in part on behavioral profiling, a concept many in our country find repugnant and unacceptable. How then can behavioral profiling become less acceptable to those opposed when only a finite number of the traveling public would be subjected to this form of security screening, as opposed to the TSA's latest attempt at making airline travel safe?

Let's work together to give our kids the best

St. Maries recently passed a supplemental levy allowing for extra funding - money our schools desperately need. While this is great news for our educators and students, the levy is merely a Band-Aid over a bigger problem. Education in our state is in need of improvement.

OPINION: Keeping Idaho's courts open amid pandemic

My fellow Idahoans,

Who are you thankful for?

This past Friday night, I watched my son play his heart out in the snow at his football game. I sat in the stands and was thankful for his good health and his determination to play.