EDITORIAL: Rating system deserves a solid 'F'

Failure to support those who would lead with distinction

Need to know how to check up on your own estate plan? Read on

We should all aim to have our legal planning in order, but how do you know if you have what you need in place? Spending a little time reviewing your estate plan every so often is a must. What should you look for? Let’s take it step by step.

PF, Athol libraries resume limited services

Facilities update on Thursday meeting agenda

The Post Falls and Athol libraries will begin offering limited services today following three months of closures brought on by building damage from severe winter weather and flooding in January.

KSD exploring 4-day week

Superintendent says Cd'A's decision will influence theirs

Recently, students in the KSD were sent home with surveys that their families could fill out and return to the school – these surveys asked the families what they believed would be the pros and cons of such a change from the traditional five-day school week.

League of Women Voters candidate info due by Saturday

The League of Women Voters of Kootenai County is asking all candidates for the May 21 election to submit information, free of charge, in their own words, with their own photos, to www.Vote411.org public online voter guide.

HATE: Press, others perpetuate it

You asked for thoughts … I think Coeur d’Alene Press has an unhealthy fixation on the Aryans. Give it a rest, it’s been decades now. It seems to be Coeur d’Alene’s claim to fame.

Library leaders react to 'Protection Act'

Entities in violation could incur fines, other penalties

Gov. Brad Little signed House Bill 710 into law Wednesday morning. Also called the "Children's School and Library Protection Act," the law prohibits those who work in schools and public libraries to make available to minors books, pictures and other materials depicting nudity, sexual conduct or sado-masochistic abuse.

OPINION: Hate on display

It seems like our governments are populated with sociopaths that would rather blow up our institutions and economy than give power back to the people.

Legals for April, 26 2024

Cindy Wood a 'Hometown Hero'

TDS presents award Family Promise leader

On Thursday, TDS executives recognized her efforts with a Hometown Hero Award, which honors individuals making a difference in the community and especially aims to highlight unsung heroes.

'How I saw it'

Don Pischner talks about changes, others lament loss of history

Pischner, District 1 Trustee, Idaho State Historical Society, outlined what things were like growing up in Coeur d’Alene in the late 1940s to the early 1960s, and what it’s like today.

Legals for May, 3 2024

OPINION: Don’t confuse more with adequate: Idaho schools remain underfunded

When we shortchange our children, we shortchange our future. Inadequate school investment means we can’t retain qualified teachers, offer specialized courses like career technical training, serve students Monday through Friday, and much more.

MY TURN: An alternative to GOP infighting

This election year, you have real choices.

Board, committee review draft plan for potential four-day week at Kellogg School District

District may be just a few weeks away from approving a pilot four-day week.

A will by any other name … no, sorry they are actually not the same

Because attorneys seem to have a hard time making anything easy, several estate planning documents have similar and easy to confuse names, which adds confusion to an already complicated topic. Estate planning legal matters are already confusing enough, so it certainly does not help to have similar names for related but completely different documents. Today, let’s try to clear things up a bit with a review of the differences between a “Living Will” and a “Living Trust.”

If you are not married, but are in a long-term relationship, you have some very specific legal planning needs

If you have a life partner to whom you are not married (whether same or opposite sex), you should be aware of all necessary legal planning to make clear under Idaho law what your partner’s role is if you die or become incapacitated. What will your partner’s legal status be regarding surrogate decision making, end-of-life decision making, and their status in your estate? Without engaging in some proactive (but relatively simple) legal planning, the results of your incapacity or death could leave your partner not only in grief, but in a financial or logistical nightmare as well.

OPINION: E Pluribus Unum

As one, we can halt the backsliding

Borah Elementary on chopping block

Cd'A School District considering closure to balance financial shortfall

A neighborhood school that has been open since 1950 is in jeopardy of closing and being repurposed as the Coeur d'Alene School District considers ways to balance its $6 million shortfall.

Little touts support for education during legislative session

Governor holds press conference at KTEC

It wasn't without some pain and teeth gnashing, but Gov. Brad Little is feeling good about how the 2024 legislative session adjourned sine die April 10. “I’m proud to say that this year, what I proposed to the Idaho Legislature, literally we got about 99% of what we wanted done,” Little said Wednesday afternoon.