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Gun statistics Those who oppose any gun regulation say that those who favor gun control laws are trying to divide the country. Let’s get away from politics and look at statistics. The U.S. has approximately four percent of the world’s population but more than 40 percent of guns in civilian hands. The U.S. has almost 30 homicides by firearms per million people, four times more than any other developed country. States with a higher percentage of households with guns have a higher number of gun deaths. Duh. States with tighter gun control law...
The mind boggles at the horror of Las Vegas, where Stephen Paddock perched himself in the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel and sprayed bullets into a crowd of outdoor concertgoers in the worst mass shooting in American history. If this slaughter of innocents were an act perpetrated by a foreign power, the U.S. military retaliation would begin immediately, and rightly so. The impulse to act to stop the domestic massacres that have become a heartbreakingly metronomic feature of American life is laudable and understandable. "It's time," as...
I've never heard President Donald Trump sing, and that's certainly a good thing. Day after day, he shows just how amazingly tone-deaf he is. He frequently brags about how he is personally compelled to "punch back" whenever anyone takes him on. No matter how gentle the criticism, it spurs an all-out verbal assault from him. It also doesn't matter how desperate the critic is, if those crying out, for instance, are in mortal danger; if they cross Donald Trump, they can expect a nuclear Twitter barrage. So it is with the 3 million or so U.S....
Recently, Roger Ailes, CEO of Fox News, was ousted for his alleged inappropriate behavior with women on his staff. Bill O’Reilly, the top rated commentator on Fox, was fired for his indiscretions with women. Now Harvey Weinstein, founder of The Weinstein Company and producer for many of America’s favorite movies, is accused of predatory actions against women stretching over decades. He is one of the most powerful people in Hollywood and a friend of many national politicians and liberal causes. For years, his behavior has been, it is rep...
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. BALLOT LOADED FOR GENERAL A sample printout of the Nov. 7 general election ballot fills both sides of two 11x17 pages with a listing of local candidate races for schools, parks, fire districts and city hall positions. The ballots are scheduled to be mailed out next Friday, Oct 20. Ballots will actually be mailed out from Seattle by a vendor...
Asotin runners led the pack Tuesday in an NE race at Asotin with 19 team point totals in the boys race and in the girls race. Asotin sophomore Mason Nicholas and TR junior Gavin Merritt finished within two seconds in the 5000-meter boys race with Nicholas clocking 17:093.46 and Merritt 17:05.2. They finished 10 seconds ahead of the pack. Tekoa/Rosalia placed second with 45 team points, and Garfield placed third with 72. Maia Dykstra of Asotin posted strong win for Asotin in the girls side with 20:02.17. Anais Mills of Garfield/Palouse led...
Oakesdale junior Logan Reed digs vs Touchet, with senior Emma Perry alongside. Don Marshall photo....
Konnor’s Kolor run, a Colfax fund raising event in memory of Colfax student Konnor Stirling, will be Saturday, Nov. 18, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at Schmuck Park. Painting of participants will begin at 5:30 and the run will follow. Entry fee will be $25 and participants will receive a shirt for the run. Entry deadline is Nov. 1....
St. John/Endicott V-netters Tuesday defeated Touchet in a five-game battle on the Eagles’ court. They booked a decisive 15-6 in the fifth game to take it. Line score for the first four games was 26-24 25-19 20-25 and 19-25. Kierstyn Ray hit three aces, seven kills and had 10 digs. Also in the action were Drew Curtis-Brewer six aces, three kills, nine digs, Riley Lamb three aces, 13 kills, five digs, Glory Dickerson 39 assists, two aces, 10 digs, Jadyn Corder three blocks, 20 kills, 12 digs and Roxy Dickerson seven digs, one ace. St. J...
Colfax senior Chase Baerlocher addresses the crowd at the Homecoming rally Oct. 6 with the rest of the cross country team on stage behind....
–Janet Leifer photo Colton quarterback Parker Druffel sidesteps for more yards in a 72-28 win at St. John. The Wildcats play Friday at home in a re-match of their 60-58 state quarterfinal loss to Sunnyside Christian. Friday night in Colton a big game will descend. The last time the teams saw each other, it ended on cold turf in November at Grandview in the 2016 state 1B quarterfinals, two points separating them after 16 touchdowns scored, 60-58. Sunnyside Christian won. Colton (5-1) and the K...
Liberty's James Heer, number 33, was a tough back to stop in the Colfax homecoming game. Heer here is adding to his 151-yard rushing total with a host of Colfax tacklers on his back. Liberty’s Lancers blanked Colfax 26-0 Friday night on the Bulldogs’ field to roll up a 6-0 mark in the NE league. Friday night’s big win put the Lancers on top of the league, and their win margins point to a solid run through the balance of the season. The Bulldogs were unable to get on track through most of the g...
A game at Kooskia, Idaho, proved a notable trip for the Vikings offensive line. Quarterback Evan Weagraff ran for 288 yards with four touchdowns on 29 carries. He barely had to throw. “The line played as well as they have all year,” said coach Will Woltering. Clearwater Valley scored first before Garfield/Palouse (3-1) got on the board and eventually took control in the third quarter. For a time, though, C.V. jumped back in it, with a touchdown, an onside kick and another touchdown to put the score at 32-20 Gar/Pal. “They were a scary bunch...
Colfax Coach Sue Doering relays a few instructions to her players in the homecoming match last Thursday against Asotin. Doering now needs two more match wins to reach the 900 career mark. Greta Geier puts up a serve for the Bulldogs in the homecoming match against Asotin Thursday in Colfax. Colfax volleyball teams rolled out two more three-set wins in NE league competition during the week to move their league mark to 7-0. The Bulldogs took out Asotin in three on the home court last Thursday and...
The 14-year-old Colfax boy who was arrested by Colfax police after he allegedly threatened to shoot up the high school has been scheduled for an Oct. 19 fact finding hearing. The youth has been formally charged with harassment with a threat to kill....
Whitman County Public Works received a default judgment in Superior Court Thursday morning, Oct. 5, on their efforts to remove a Colfax public hazard which is actually in the county located south of the former St. Ignatius Hospital building. Deputy Prosecutor Merritt Decker filed the public nuisance civil suit July 19 in superior court. The suit contended a vacant house on the property presented a hazard because a former swim pool at the residence had been allowed to fill up with water which is stagnant. Defendant in the suit was Lia June...
Tony Lee Boyer, 47, was sentenced to five months in jail Friday on convictions of harassment with a threat to kill and two charges of violating a no-contact order. Boyer was arrested Aug. 29 after deputies responded to a report of domestic violence at a residence on the Parvin Road. Boyer Friday entered an Alford plea to the charges. Under that plea a defendant does not admit the charges but agrees the state has the evidence for a probable conviction. According the case report, Boyer and his former spouse were residing together. He allegedly ca...
A new school bond proposal is taking shape in Colfax. At a school board work session Monday night, members heard the parameters of what would be a $19 million bond for facilities improvements at both Colfax High School and Jennings Elementary. Worked out over meetings going back to January when a committee was formed by Superintendent Jerry Pugh and lead by volunteer Wes Claassen, the measure would focus on what is needed for the next 20 years of the schools. Any bond proposal would have to be...
Dennis E. Cox, 59, Pullman, was booked into the county jail early Friday afternoon after he entered guilty pleas connected with a child rape case in Pullman. Cox was remanded to custody of the jail here until a pre-sentence investigation of the case is conducted by the state's Department of Corrections. Cox Friday pleaded guilty to rape of a child in the third degree and two other charges filed against him among seven listed by the state. Cox could face a sentence of between 48 and 61 months on the convictions. The former proprietor of...
Howard Ulrich saw this moose from his front window Sunday about 5:30 p.m. on Bill Willson Road. The moose was moving from south to north. It was the first sighting of a moose in the area for a long time, he said....
Whitman County Port commissioners fielded several topics at their Oct. 6 meeting. First off, commissioners John Love, Tom Kammerzell and Kristine Meyer asked for added time to review a process for people who want to get on the agenda to discuss an issue – and in the process revised a mechanism for how the port staff works with commissioners. “This will tell people a timeline to work around,” said Joe Poire, executive director. “I appreciate the clarity.” At the commissioners’ next meeting, pu...
A male pedestrian who was fatally injured in an accident late Sunday night and died Monday in Spokane was named Tuesday after an extended attempt to learn his identity. The accident victim did not have identification on him when he was hit by a pickup truck. A report from the district Washington State Patrol office identified the victim as Donavon D. Harring, 42, Everett. He was identified after an abandoned Nissan sedan was found on Walter Siding Road about three miles from the accident scene. Harring was struck by a pickup truck on Highway...
A steam engine powers an eastbound Milwaukee Road freight train across Pine Creek and over the highway and two other railroads. Photo courtesy of the private collection of William Tensfeld and Whitman County Library Rural Heritage. The route of the Milwaukee Railroad across Whitman County will be featured in an historic photographic presentation Saturday, Oct. 14, starting at 1 p.m. in the Rosalia branch of Whitman County Library. After the photo presentation, railroad historian Mark Borleske...
The Garfield Grange will close at the end of the year after falling short of attracting new officers which were needed by Oct. 1. In July, existing officers voted to close the chapter if they did not reach the deadline. The minimum required by the Washington State Grange office in Olympia is to have a President or Master, an Overseer or Vice President, a secretary and a treasurer. “No progress of people stepping forward to take offices,” said Master Penny Martinez. “Thirty-one December will...
Rosalia Food Pantry, the monthly food distribution service, will mark a grand re-opening next Thursday, Oct. 19, from 6 to 8 p.m., at the Baptist Church. The pantry will remain at the church. “Great news, for sure,” commented Paige Collins, executive director of the Council on Aging and Human Services. The plan for Rosalia is to form an association with the four churches of Rosalia to oversee the sustainability of the pantry once it opens. The pantry will operate once a month, and the council will keep it loaded with food supplies, Collins not...
