Cri de Coeur

The heart of a city is her people. Inside the heart of the people: their faith. Three CdA churches replaced a movie theater, a car dealership, and a hardware store. Their leaders sat down to discuss all things faith and Coeur d’Alene–including getting out the vote. Enjoy this first clip where they weigh in on

A 20 acre lot southwest of Interstate 90 will finally be developed. Developers who have ties to Monogram Homes and will be allowed to build up to eight units per acre have offered $500 per lot to the CdA school district in an attempt to mitigate the development’s impact on schools. Representatives did not indicate

As the city of Coeur d’Alene wraps up the annual “leaf-fest,” wherein street crews collect around 1,400 tons of leaves, some argue the task is unnecessary and even harmful to the environment. Check out Nathan’s report: People raking their leaves is in fact not helpful because it is bad for the environment, ends up destroying

Due to a 450% increase in CdA SWAT calls since 2014, the city council approved the purchase of a newly rebuilt armored vehicle similar to above for $183,000 discounted from a new model $380,000.  Year to date, the SWAT team has been called upon 18 times including one officer-involved shooting. Officers currently do not have

Dr. Carroll was right–at least about one thing. The hospitalization rate for <18-year-old-kids positive for Covid jumped to nearly 2%. Since we questioned the Press’ coverage of Dr. Carroll’s Rotary presentation, an additional 934 juveniles confirmed or suspected positive for SARS-CoV2 resulted in 18 hospitalizations among the same demographic. No reports of deaths or PICU

Kootenai County has posted the unofficial election results to their website which redirects here.  The Coeur d’Alene races turned out mostly how we predicted (5/7) with the exception of the school board. The largest surprise was the turnout which nearly doubled from 2019 for the city of CdA residents with over 10,000 votes cast. Below

Today is the day we let less than 11% of voters or about 2,700 people determine who makes decisions in our schools*, cities, and other local governing bodies.* While that doesn’t sound like democracy, Kootenai county voting data reveal less than 20% of Coeur d’Alene registered voters cast a ballot in 2019. The lack of

Zone 1: Vote Allie Anderton Third term hopeful Lisa May is the most experienced, best-spoken and, perhaps, most highly educated candidate for CdA school board. We are grateful for the time, effort, and sacrifice she has given in the service of our community. While this makes her an obvious choice, public opinion reveals her apparent

Lisa May for CdA website offers no contact information to get in touch with the campaign or Lisa herself. That would be helpful for those of us who have never met nor corresponded with her. However, a donation option is available via paypal. In an attempt to reach out to Lisa we decided to make

With local elections looming the Kootenai County Republicans have vetted candidates and published endorsements. Before jumping on the bandwagon consider the fairly recent turn over at NIC Board of Trustees and its impact. If you have 20 minutes you can watch a recent board meeting here. It is reminiscent of an SNL skit attempting to

Here are the best local resources to track local cases of Covid. CdA Schools:https://www.cdaschools.org/covid Panhandle Health District Dashboard: https://panhandlehealthdistrict.org/covid-19/dashboard/ Panhandle Updated numbers: https://panhandlehealthdistrict.org/covid-19/ Kootenai Health Inpatient Data: https://www.kh.org/covid-19/