There’s a famous line from one of America’s greatest movies, "Cool Hand Luke."

Strother Martin, playing a hardscrabble rural prison warden, tells non-conforming inmate Paul Newman, "What we’ve got here is failure to communicate." Martin proceeds to make Newman’s incarceration a veritable hell.

While some would say there are other similarities between actors in the film and certain individuals in North Idaho, this much is inarguable: Coeur d’Alene’s urban renewal agency and the citizens it’s serving have failed miserably in attempts to communicate.

That’s why the agency, Lake City Development Corp., is hiring a public relations company to try to repair the phone line.

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