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Big ideas are not microwavable snacks, instantly ready for American taxpayers to swallow. They’re more like a pot of grandma’s homemade soup, tested over the years with just the right ingredients, added at the proper time and allowed to simmer to perfection. So it is with federal health-care reform. It is a work in progress. There have been many attempts to pass sweeping reforms too quickly, and they have all failed. Americans want meaningful change they can afford and reaching that delicate balance takes time and careful consideration. Hopeful...
GIVEN ANY thought to applying for a job as a census taker? OK, answer this question which is in the practice test you have to take before they give you the real thing which could lead to your hiring as a field employee or a supervisor. .41 + 21.4 +6.3 +280 (one of the following) A. 48.498. B. 59.8 C. 308.11 D. 450. Didn’t get it? Neither did I. But that was an example of what they will ask to determine your number skills. Now try this one that tests how well you read. “Census takers who visit homes to collect census information are called enu... Full story
The economy is the center of attention. Jobless rates continue to climb. Foreclosures are expected to rise. Governments are frantically trying to balance budgets. It is a new environment, not so much because of the difficulties experienced over the last few years, but because there is little of a quick recovery. Quick fixes will not do enough. Some fundamental hard work and objective thinking is needed. The temptation, however, seems to be to get involved in peripheral issues instead of the most basic ones. Take, for instance, Washington’s l...
These reports are from the previous four issues of the Daily Bulletin in Colfax. They are reprinted here for the benefit of Gazette readers who reside outside of Colfax. Some accounts have been updated. Not guilty plea for Noble Moscow attorney Mark Moorer has entered a not guilty plea on behalf of Daniel A. Noble, the Moscow resident who faces charges after he allegedly hit WSU students with a car along Stadium Way Dec. 7. Moorer, who represented Noble in the initial court appearance, also filed a demand for disclosure of state’s evidence a...
Edna J. Wigen Funeral services for Edna J. Wigen, 99, will be Monday, Feb. 1, at 11 a.m. at Selbu Lutheran Church. Pastor Dennis Bay will officiate and burial will follow at the Selbu Cemetery. Mrs. Wigen died Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010 at Whitman Health & Rehab Center in Colfax. Born Sept. 17, 1910, to Carl and Ellen Emerson Carlson at the family farmhouse on Mud Flat, she attended a one room schoolhouse just down the road on Mud Flat. When she was 10 years old, they moved to Moscow because her family wanted her to get a good education. She... Full story
Colfax girls again booked a fast start Tuesday on the home court on the way to a 68-24 win over Tekoa/Oakesdale in a non-leaguer. The win came after the Bulldogs booked another two big wins over the weekend. Tuesday, Colfax cooked a 21-2 first quarter edge over the Nighthawks. Assistant Coach Tom Fowler called out the bench for the duration and the `hawks put up a battle. Kayla Johnson hit 23 to lead Colfax. She had 12 boards and four steals. Brooke Webber, who scored 10, and Emily Shaw each had five steals. Kim Pakootas led Tekoa/Oakesdale...
Northwest Christian Crusaders, dominators to date in the Bi-County hoop race, will bring an 8-0 league mark to the Colfax gym Friday night. The Bulldogs will host after bagging their sixth straight win Tuesday with a 54-36 non-league win over neighboring Tekoa/Oakesdale. The Bulldogs Saturday at Davenport nipped the host Gorillas 53-52 to claim a third of the three-way league tie behind the Crusaders. Colfax, Davenport and Lind/Ritzville all have 6-3 marks. The Bulldogs took a two-point lead into the last quarter at Davenport. They hit a lean...
St. John/Endicott will have six wrestling teams on the guest list Saturday in a round robin format starting at 10 a.m. The big meet will be one of the last stops before wrestlers go into eliminations leading to the state finals. First stop for the Eagles will be the Feb. 6 sub-regional at Ritzville. Kittitas, Reardan, Liberty, Tri-Cities Prep, Colfax and Pomeroy are on the guest list for the Saturday meet. Tuesday, three Eagles competed after making the long trip to White Swan. Thomas Newton took the lone win in the 112 class. WHITE SWAN MEET... Full story
Lee Roach of the Vikings wraps a rebound in front of Justin Bingman of Pomeroy in the boys battle Friday at Palouse. Colton's Taylor Spence lands a rebound under a leaping Cole McCanna in the Eagle-Wildcat battle Tuesday. Rosalia’s hoop steamroller added two District 9 games by a combined margin of 63 points to push its record to 17-0. The Spartans demolished visiting Touchet 66-44 Saturday after dropping the LW Tigercats at Washtucna Friday. Rosalia roared out of the gate at home Saturday, posting 23 points in the first quarter and then c... Full story
Kevin Nellis of Colfax, top, and Peter Nelson of Liberty hit the mat in the 189 class at Colfax. Daython Maltone advanced all the way to the semi-final round Saturday in the 215-pound class of the Clearwater Classic at Lewiston. Maltone booked three straight pins to get into the semi round where he had a lead in the opening minutes against Narceso Gutierrez of Toppenish. He lost the lead on a lock and then had to gamble to get it back. “He tried some moves, he wouldn’t have otherwise tried, and it didn’t work out,” Coach Jeremy Lanthorn said. G...
Kettle Falls joins Bi-County league Kettle Falls, a long-time friendly foe of Colfax when both campaigned in the Northeast A league, will drop into the 2B division next year and compete in the Bi-County League. The league has also picked up Mary Walker of Springdale and St. George’s the last two schools left in a depleted Panorama League, according to Colfax Athletic Director Mike Morgan. Kettle was allowed to drop down from the A division after it won a WIAA appeal of its classification from the WIAA Sunday. They will be in the 2B division f... Full story
Kelsey Moser gets ready to take another shot in front of Tricia Luft Tuesday night in the battle of the undefeateds at St. John. Moser led the Wildcats to their 40th straight win over a two-year run. A showdown turned into a grind down Tuesday night at St. John when the two undefeateds of the SE-North collided. Colton girls left town with a 47-36 win and extended their two-year win string to 40 games. The two teams slugged through a slow first quarter with a physical style that kept the high-powered offenses from picking up steam. Colton’s d...
The Pullman League of Women Voters will celebrate its 60th anniversary on Feb. 8 in the Hecht Room of Neill Public Library at 7 p.m. The public is invited to join League members in honoring five women for their political activity: former Pullman mayor Karen Kiessling, former Whitman County commissioner Nora Mae Keifer, former city council member Helen Stiller, former Pullman planning commissioner Natalie Clark, and a founder of the Pullman League in 1950, Kay Buss. Each will speak briefly about the significance of their public service and will...
Chris Widener launched what he dubbed “not your grandaddy’s campaign,” for the U.S. Senate in front of the graffiti-stained walls of The Coug, hallowed WSU watering hole Saturday. The 43-year old Republican, who likes late-night television and orange vodka, said his experience as a speaker, self-help author and television host brings a unique voice to the senate race. “I guarantee I’m going to be the hippest candidate in this race,” he told the Gazette. Widener is one of now 12 GOP candidates who have announced intentions to challenge D...
This view of Martha Washington Rock is from half of a two-picture card for a stereoscopic viewer which provided a three dimensional effect by combining two prints. The card dated this scene in 1904. Martha Washington School, which was located on N. Morton in Colfax where the Colfax High Vo-Ag shop and parking lot are now located, was constructed in 1894 and originally called the North Ward School. The name was changed to Martha Washington School in 1913, the year the rock came tumbling down the cliff face on the opposite side of the river.... Full story
THURSDAY A US Airways passenger plane was diverted to Philadelphia after a religious item worn by a Jewish passenger was mistaken as a bomb on a flight from New York’s La Guardia airport to Louisville. Burglars stole several valuable items, including a silver ring belonging to Alexander the Great, from the Ashdod Museum in Israel, which was displaying hundreds of artifacts recovered from the black-market. South Korea’s government will turn out the lights early in some offices in order to encourage employees to go home and make babies. The...
Two of four county roads set to be abandoned by the county appeared to be on track for approval by Whitman County commissioners Monday. Legal concerns over eliminating water access will delay the procedure for the two others. Mark Storey, county public works director, said he has checked into concerns voiced by residents of the four roads last week. In a workshop session Monday, he advised commissioners to proceed with plans to abandon the Pazen Road just south of Colfax and the Klemgard Road above Wawawai. Residents of each of the roads...
What business entity would fit neatly into Palouse’s economic puzzle? A forum to hear just those kinds of ideas on the economic feasibility of the Palouse Brownsfield project drew 15 people to city hall Jan. 19. The Department of Ecology (DOE) and the city are working to repair and restore the half-acre patch of polluted land along Main Street into a useful community feature. Greg Pearce, the spouse of one downtown business owner, spoke openly about what he sees as the paltry earnings made by downtown Palouse businesses. Most stores are o...
The tender shoots of winter wheat start their journey toward the sky, compliments of unusually warm and dry December and January months. Photo taken outside Colfax. This unusually warm, dry winter could be both a blessing and a curse for area wheat farmers, said WSU extension educator Steve Van Vleet. Warmer temperatures throughout the winter have already prompted the first growth of winter wheat. However, the lack of snowfall will make for a dry spring. “If we get a cold snap and some wind now, it could be really bad. It could be d...
Colfax police Jan. 20 arrested Bradley Turner, 35, on a probation violation warrant. Chief Bill Hickman said Turner was arrested at a residence on S. Meadow Street after the department was advised by Clarkston police. Chief Hickman said Turner initially denied being the person listed on the warrant, but eventually admitted his identity. Turner has arm tattoos depicting a rose and tigerhead which matched up with a description on the warrant. The warrant was issued by the state Department of Corrections where Turner had been on probation for a... Full story
Romeo Pellum-Honaker, the former WSU football player who was sentenced to two months in jail Dec. 28 on conviction for second-degree burglary, was ordered to pay a total of $2,059 in restitution Friday. Payment of restitution was ordered at the time of sentencing, but a determination of the amount was delayed. The order involved four different WSU students and the amounts ranged from $1,584 to $20. Pellum-Honaker was allowed to convert 30 days of his sentence to 240 hours of community service. He has also been ordered to pay $1,800 in fines...
After four years of steady growth, building activity in unincorporated Whitman County took a step back in 2009. County building inspector Dan Gladwill’s annual report listed 224 permits issued for construction projects last year, a downturn from the 244 issued in 2008. The 2008 total was the highest in a decade. Gladwill submitted the report to county commissioners at their regular meeting last Monday, Jan. 18. Of the permits issued, 15 were for single family homes. That number is up five from last year’s total. County Commissioner Greg Par... Full story
Yes, the dateline says Jan. 28, but all signs point to spring’s arrival. Five-year-old Angelina Widman brought in the first buttercups of the year from her family’s farm west of Rosalia Tuesday. Young Miss Widman was awarded the Gazette’s traditional $1 prize for bringing in a number of fantastic specimens. This year is the third in a row the Widman family has claimed the Gazette’s fabled buttercup contest. Jeanette Ping of LaCrosse displays a buttercup brought to her by niece Dawn Marie Sinclair from Mount Olympos outside Athens, Greece,...
The Port of Whitman County appears to be closing in on a more than $12 million stimulus grant to link Pullman to Spokane with fiber optics. The United States Department of Agriculture, which is awarding the grant funds from the National Telecommunications Infrastructure Act, asked the port to submit detailed financial records for final review. The federal agency has not yet decided on the grant amount, but an announcement is expected soon. “We’re praying,” said Joe Poire, port director. “We’re in full-blown, just-before-confession mode.” De... Full story
State Rep. Susan Fagan, R-Pullman, introduced a bill Jan. 26 on public records requests after a handful of Palouse citizens lobbied her in light of what they believe are excessive requests to their city. The proposed bill gives cities in Washington the option of charging for any time over five hours city staff must spend researching public records requests. Citizens who submit those requests would be responsible for paying for that fee. “In a number of instances, there are times when individuals clog the system with multiple requests, sometimes... Full story
