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CLN: Taxation without representation?

Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 3 weeks, 4 days AGO
| April 17, 2026 1:00 AM

If you live in Coeur d’Alene, you cannot check a book out of the Hayden Library without paying $50 for a library card. The fee is yearly. I pay property taxes in which some of it goes to the county, which funds the libraries. I live in the county, but I cannot check out a book from the Hayden Library. Does this fall under “No taxation without representation” banner? This is what the CLN board has done. They have limited access to “their” libraries!

JUANA PERLEY

Coeur d’Alene