March 27, 2019 at 5:00 am
Basketball fans, admit it.You were hoping for Murray State to knock off Florida State. And why? Because a year ago, a very similar-looking Florida State team knocked out your beloved Zags. For that matter, you were pulling wildly on Sunday ...
March 24, 2019 at 5:00 am
The American Legion family is 3 million strong.And we do mean strong.With an estimated 2 million Legion members complemented by American Legion Auxiliary and Sons of the American Legion, this powerful organization has long been much more th...
March 22, 2019 at 5:00 am
Bye bye, local bricks and mortar department stores.Places people like to shop are disappearing. Kmart; gone. Sears; gone. And this June, Shopko will limp to the same retail graveyard.“Should’ve seen it coming,” the experts will say. “When y...
March 20, 2019 at 5:00 am
Daniel Radford and Jim Jones might be miles and years apart, but they’re as close to right on as they can get.Today you’ll read, on the facing page, a piece penned by young Radford, a sophomore at prestigious Emory University in Georgia. Ra...
March 17, 2019 at 5:00 am
Words matter.Indeed, they strengthen gray matter.During this, the North Idaho Regional Spelling Bee weekend, The Press has confessed concern over the decline of the written word in today’s world. And not just because our livelihoods depend ...
March 15, 2019 at 5:00 am
The stars of the show, of course, are the 46 North Idaho kids who are going to be spelling their hearts out tomorrow morning.That was true the first time North Idaho College and the Coeur d’Alene Press collaborated 16 years ago, and it’s tr...
March 13, 2019 at 5:00 am
If your kids and grandkids are healthy, happy, productive and responsible, count your blessings. Your kids and grandkids are not like so many of the other children and grandchildren in our community. A lot of kids today feel worthless. They...
March 10, 2019 at 5:00 am
A recall battle in formerly peaceful Dalton Gardens.A fight for survival — or at least, a chance to cling to minimum funding for maximum performance — is on for all of the area’s school districts.Considering the nonpartisan nature of an odd...
March 08, 2019 at 5:00 am
In what has become an annual tradition, several Idaho legislators were again pushing bills to reduce or eliminate requirements for governmental agencies to publish legal notices in local newspapers. The bills died quietly this week, but if ...
March 06, 2019 at 5:00 am
For being the greatest nation in the history of the world, we sure do get some things wrong.Consider the Buffalo Bills.Between 1990 and 1993, the Bills played in four consecutive Super Bowls — and lost them all.Because of that, in the minds...
