Talk:Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

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[edit] no original research

Coeur d'Alene is an up and coming area of northern Idaho. In the past year it has shown a 7.8% growth rate. It has an unemployment rate of only 2.9 %. The median home price is only $137,399 making it very affordable.

It has a world famous golf course with an island green that has made the cover of many golfing magazines and calendars. Coer d' Alene is a beauiful place to visit and a great place to live. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 4.232.39.246 (talk • contribs) 01:16, November 23, 2005 (UTC)

The above is a good example of content that should not appear in an article (should anyone be tempted to add such stuff.) Dxco 06:01, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
I agree. And that information must be out of date or something, because the average home cost is closer to 250,000, and while the town WAS very affordable to live in as long ago as five years ago, thats hardly the case anymore.--67.22.38.204 23:47, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

And I don't know how much people have "enjoyed" significant growth. There is more money, true, but that doesn't necessarily equate to a better quality of life overall.

Yes, a very good example of content not to be found on an article. Although this doesn't matter, I've been to Coeur d'Alene on many occasions before and it seems to me quite the opposite on current things. --Thekittybomb 20:20, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] charter academy

The Coeur d'Alene Charter Academy is a high school as well as a middle school. I should know, I go there. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hattusa (talk • contribs) 05:51, October 18, 2006 (UTC)

Indeed, and it has been appropriately added to the article. -134.50.19.140 (talk) 22:33, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kelso Lake???

I don't think this picture should be on here. It has nothing to do with the city of Coeur d'Alene. I've got pictures of the city online on Picasa but I've collected a lot of them online...I didn't take them myself. What's the policy on adding pictures to a Wikipedia page? Also, there's several available at Coeur d'Alene's Chamber of Commerce website. We need to delete the Kelso one though; again, it has no relevance to this page. Jordancda 05:29, 18 February 2007 (UTC)Jordancda

[edit] population

hi, I'm working on the German article about CDA... From the figures, there seems to be a decline in population and I'm wondering why... In 2005 there were about 40,000 people but for 2007 the FAQ on the website state that the population is 34,514 (http://www.coeurdaleneidaho.org/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=37&MMN_position=97:97). This is confusing to me since the PacNorthwest in general is a fast-growing region... Are we talking about the same thing?;-) Did they change boundaries or something? Is one of the figures not accurate? Or is CDA really loosing population? Please help me out;-) --X-Weinzar 11:19, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] zip code

Also, I'm wondering what the zip code is. Is it 83814 and 83815? thx, --X-Weinzar 11:50, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Both zip codes are in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. It's large enough to have two, and if I recall right some or all of the Post Office boxes use 83816 as a zip code. 76.178.105.2 (talk) 13:29, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Aryan Nations and Coeur d'Alene

I did a recent edit on a comment about the Aryan Nations. I suspect an Aryan Nations member did the edit where he or she claimed that the Aryan Nations are back in "Coer d'Alene (sic). I first edited, then removed said comment. I'm not sure how they could be "back" when their compound was near Hayden Lake, Idaho to start with, not CDA. I live in Kootenai, Co. Idaho, the same county as Coeur d'Alene, and I can assure you there is no new compound here. All they have is a PO Box in a local CDA post office. This is all they have had for years since the compound was closed then demolished. I'm sure it's a few holdouts that stayed in this area instead of fleeing when the Aryan compound was closed, which again as an aside was fairly close to Hayden Lake, Idaho. Not Coeur d'Alene. The claim that a PO Box means they are "back" would be the same as let's say two or three Aryan Nations members getting a PO Box in let's say San Francisco or New York City, and then claiming they had invaded said city and took it over. Other then a few holdouts that probably never left, the Aryans are NOT back here in any way shape or form. 76.178.105.2 (talk) 13:34, 18 November 2007 (UTC)