January 27, 2019 at 5:00 am
If you’re looking for a poster child in the quest to test judicial fairness in your backyard, Wiley Hunter isn’t a likely suspect.What you really want is an innocent man bent, folded and mutilated by a corrupt and powerful legal system.Well...
January 25, 2019 at 5:00 am
Few things are exactly as they initially seem.You could ask the much-maligned MAGA-capped young man from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky. Better yet, ask Pat Whitcomb, the recently disgraced and discarded North Idaho College wres...
January 23, 2019 at 5:00 am
The starving anti-regulation crowd was served a steaming feast in Coeur d’Alene.No, not the Mac-n-Cheese fest. The raise-the-roof tempest.As our story Tuesday detailed, a local builder was putting a new roof on his customer’s garage behind ...
January 20, 2019 at 5:00 am
Coeur d’Alene School District is smart in taking nine months or so to dissect, research, argue for, argue against and then possibly make a decision on later start times for adolescent students.It’s going to take at least that long for all o...
January 18, 2019 at 5:00 am
Wednesday was doubly sweet for Kootenai County Clerk Jim Brannon.First, he emerged from a cloudy election mess with sunshine on his shoulders.And second, he managed to hurt The Press while helping himself.We say that last part tongue-in-che...
January 13, 2019 at 5:00 am
Commissioners Marc Eberlein and Bob Bingham, thank you.You worked hard. You did your best. Even though you didn’t always take the course some folks thought most prudent or fair, you were open and accountable. Analysts of public service like...
January 11, 2019 at 5:00 am
When Coeur d’Alene School District trustees meet Jan. 22, the road leading to a new elementary school on Prairie Avenue should be smoothed out.Good thing. There have been too many rocks and potholes already.A key piece of the proposal that ...
January 11, 2019 at 5:00 am
So it took 4,012 words. Idaho’s newly minted governor left no hot topic untouched in his first State of the State address.Former Lt. Gov. Brad Little, now the state’s Commander in Chief, rang every essential bell, including:• Education...
January 09, 2019 at 5:00 am
On today’s op-ed page, Jim Brannon’s recently defeated opponent accurately points out the opaque nature of the clerk’s view of transparency.Dan Gookin, a Coeur d’Alene City Council member, has long been an advocate for real transparency amo...
January 06, 2019 at 5:00 am
The Sunday after Thanksgiving, we promised to share with you information about a better way of giving that’s headed Kootenai County’s way.Today we make good on that pledge by introducing you to Charity Reimagined. The nonprofit is led by we...
