HUCKLEBERRIES: Cd'A, going up
Coeur d’Alene residents are accustomed now to towering cranes downtown, lifting high-rises into existence. But that wasn't the case 40 years ago.
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Coeur d’Alene residents are accustomed now to towering cranes downtown, lifting high-rises into existence. But that wasn't the case 40 years ago.
This editorial was published by The Idaho Statesman of Boise.
When we choose as a society to take away the freedom of an individual, we have a responsibility to take care of their basic needs, such as food, clothing and medical care. It’s unacceptable that a prisoner went six months without care for a broken hand. | Opinion
“I believe that I’ve been treated indifferently with my medical problem because if I was on the streets I would have access to certain things that I wasn’t granted in here,” he said.
Tubbs Hill is hallowed ground today. But it wasn’t in the early 1960s when the City Council, by a slim majority, approved a developer’s request to carve up the hilltop for a convention center, resort hotel and multi-family dwellings.