All right, let’s talk about the Memorial Day service at the Cook County courthouse. It would appear that someone wanted to add, for effect, a facsimile of a bomb crater on the premises to honor our fallen. Or, maybe someone started to dig up a sewer line and quit mid-project when the money ran out. Surely this was not done […]

On Saturday, May 22 the Colvill Fire Department held its annual pancake breakfast. What a shock to enter the building and have to face Susan Thompson at the cashier table. When Judge Sandvik ordered Mr. Thompson to abstain from the fire department it never entered our minds that she would remain as the spousal support. Thesad part is that when […]

I am responding to Garry Gamble’s May 29 letter. Does Garry Gamble’s trust in a “living, caring, all-knowing Heavenly Father” come from a Biblical “cultural framing?” It seems so as he often quotes this revered old document as if it were evidence. Has he paid attention to the entire Bible or just the parts that feel good? Did he read […]

Thecity council is up to their eyelids in the poor decisions that surround the EDA and their business park they built for small businesses like kettlebells. Granting a home business for kettlebells with eight customers at once not only robs a local business of rent, it is in clear conflict with the council’s own enterprise, the business park, and the […]

Is the four-day school week what is best for the majority of students in ISD 166 and the community as a whole? In my opinion what is best involves much more than discussions about academics or budget. These are the two main talking points of a 4-day week. A 4-day week is not a long-term financial solution and this fall […]