Wednesday, January 22, 2025

ARTICLES BY DAVID BOND

Silver is flat-lined, for a while

WALLACE - Silver price-watchers could be in for a boring couple of years while demand and support for the poor man's gold consolidate around current levels.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

The pain of insane postal cuts

The usual grousing and snuffling greeted the Post Office's - excuse me, Postal Service's - announcement late last month that the price of mailing a domestic first-class letter was going up by a penny, from 45 cents to 46 cents.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

'The man who saved Wallace'

WALLACE - Back in 1960, state and federal highway planners were saying publicly that it would take two years to punch an Interstate 90 freeway corridor through the historic mining town of Wallace, leveling much of the canyon-cramped city's elegant Elizabethan architecture. Confident, they began leveling neighborhoods and condemning business …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

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