Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
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We have known Robert Rembert for more than 22 years, which encompassed his time as an attorney with the Pullman firm of Irwin, Myklebust, Savage & Brown. As an accounting firm sharing space with the law firm, we had an opportunity to watch his development as an attorney in Whitman County and as a community leader in both Pullman and in the surrounding area. Rob’s involvement during those years was impressive. As a partner in the law firm, he handled both civil and criminal litigation. He is well-versed in the areas of landlord-tenant, c...
I supported Dave Frazier for district court judge in 1981, and again for superior court judge in 1999, and I also supported Gary Libey for superior court judge in 2016. I know what it takes to be a great judge - hardworking, experienced and fair. I support Dan LeBeau for Whitman County district court judge this year as I believe he has all of those qualifications. --Milt Nelson, Thornton...
Robert Rembert would be a fine District Judge. I urge the voters of Whitman County to vote for him on August 7, 2018. District Court is where most people have their first contact with the judicial system. Robert brings a fine legal mind to the job, but will also be courteous for all those who might come before him. --David R. Risley, Clarkston...
I am a 70-year old retired woman. After earning a BSc. in Biochemistry from Washington State University in 1970, I spent 45 years as a research technician/lab manager at universities around the country, including WSU and the University of Idaho. I was politically active during my time as a student at WSU (think Vietnam, Nixon and Cambodia), but then, as they say, “Life happened.” The country was basically running along OK, so my activism scaled back to regularly voting. But now, I again feel that my country is going badly astray and we nee...
We had a cold, wet spring. I don’t know whether to blame global warming or Donald Trump, but it sure was hard on my garden. I didn’t think my corn was ever going to come up. I am glad warm weather has finally arrived. I became aware of the arrival of summer this week as I was sitting at an outside table in a small strip mall slurping a huckleberry milkshake and watching the traffic go by. It seemed almost every vehicle was either pulling a boat or an RV; some were pulling both. I was raised on a farm, so I was introduced to backing up a tra...
The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court Monday night should mark a reckoning for the Democratic Party. With now three consecutive respected choices in the most major of personnel decisions, President Trump has solidified a claim to the mainstream voter, in a time which the Democrats are defined by niche issues. Trump’s picks of Mike Pence, Neil Gorsuch and now Kavanaugh, for millions of people, backs the reason they voted for him. For millions of others, it makes it that much h...
Don't you just love doublespeak, which "deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts or reverses the meaning of words," according to the dictionary? It's the distorted language of grievance that allows society's oppressors to wallow absurdly in their contrived victimhood. One of my favorites is a phrase used against anybody who dares oppose the nation's plutocrats, these obese cats who routinely use a small part of their ill-gotten gains to buy candidates -- oh, I'm sorry, I mean "make campaign contributions to elect officials who will return...
The prospect of overturning Roe v. Wade will be at the foreground of the battle over Justice Anthony Kennedy's replacement, and it should be. Roe is judicially wrought social legislation pretending to the status of constitutional law. It is more adventurous than Miranda and Griswold, other watchwords of judicial activism from its era. It is as much a highhanded attempt to impose a settlement on a hotly contested political question as the abhorrent Dred Scott decision denying the rights of blacks. It is, in short, a travesty that a...
Pet Peeves To Whitman County Road Department from citizen on gravel road. Drop the damn blade, please! Okeydokes Local EMS team for your care of our community....
The recent Supreme Court decision to uphold the last revision of the president's immigration ban on certain countries is an unfortunate decision. Aside from North Korea and Venezuela, all of the banned nations have Muslim majority populations. Yet, five majority Muslim countries were not included in the ban. The Court should have looked at that and asked why. One of the countries not included in the ban is Saudi Arabia. The president sees them as an opponent to Iran, but Saudi Arabia is the nation that gave the world Osama Bin Laden and the 9/1...
We are all celebrating the rescue of the 12 soccer players and their coach from the deep, dark cave in Thailand by the brave Thai Navy Seals who carried out the complicated and dangerous rescue plan. How did the boys survive with enough physical and psychological strength to make the frightening journey out of the cave? They had two huge advantages. First, the team was with their coach, someone they trusted and who knew each of them well. Secondly, the boys had each other. I imagine that they cuddled together for warmth and held each other as...
So the NRA and its Republican puppets, such as our own Cathy McMorris Rodgers, think the best way of counteracting terrorism, including school shootings, is improving mental health conditions rather than limiting gun availability. Then I can’t think of any better way of breeding terrorists who want to strike back at the U.S. than inflicting huge trauma on children by forcible separation from their parents. With Lisa Brown, we’ll get action for both: improved mental health conditions and limited availability of military-style assault wea...
I read a recent syndicated column blaming Trump for the shooting in the newsroom in Annapolis. Whoa! That is a stretch. The President has certainly been critical of the national press, but his opinion surely didn’t incite the gunman. Everything I know about the tragedy indicates that the deranged shooter had a personal beef with the paper. There isn’t any evidence that the gunman was even aware of presidential tweets. To criticize Donald Trump for this catastrophe is unreasonable and is not based on facts. He didn’t influence anyone to rando...
I am offended by your nasty political cartoons and comments about our President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. You and the Lewiston Tribune and Spokesman Review, and so many other liberal newspapers are spreading biased and untrue comments about our president and to comment on Obama's legacy??? What legacy? If you are speaking of his socialist agenda, more than doubling the national debt, anti-Christian and pro-Muslim attitude then I can understand. But the forced legislation of Obama-care, illegal immigration and a Pulitzer peace...
It seems the natural tendency and desire of the populace to find quick, simple answers and fixes to problems. Things are just so much easier when the answer is cut and dry and to the point. However, sometimes we can over-simplify things and forget there are often multiple factors to an issue that negate having one simple answer. When the family's German Shepherd was walking as though lame one day, the question of hip dysplasia came up. These big dogs with the unique gait are known for having a p...
Here's a pop quiz: What is the name of North Korea's capital city? If you said "Pyongyang," you probably have an above-average recall. I didn't want to make it too easy. The name Kim Jong Un still should ring a bell, but if the details of his much-ballyhooed meeting with President Donald Trump have faded, don't worry. That was sooooo two weeks ago, and we Americans have the memory span of a gnat. Since that historic Trump-Kim negotiation to defuse the ticking nuclear time bomb, we have moved on. All the glaring images from Singapore (the...
In the 1950s, the great neo-conservative intellectual Irving Kristol acknowledged Joe McCarthy's stark failings, but famously refused to take the side of his critics. "For there is one thing," he wrote, "that the American people know about Senator McCarthy: He, like them, is unequivocally anti-Communist. About the spokesman for American liberalism, they feel they know no such thing." The sentiment could equally apply to President Donald Trump and the issue of immigration. Trump's team is still trying to figure out how to extricate itself from...
Okeydokes Val Gregory for organizing Ice Cream Social Encouraging signs to the public on Fairview Street...
Colfax's Future Business Leaders Club May 9 brought Jim Thompson, father of 2012 CHS graduate Sam Thompson, and Palouse Regional Transportation Planning Organization (PRTPO) to address a high school assembly about the dangers of texting and driving. According to an AAA poll, 94 percent of teens driving acknowledge the dangers of texting and driving, but 35 percent admitted to doing it anyway? 35 percent? How sad. This is why Jim and Lisa Thompson take the time to go to schools and driver’s education classes. We are very hopeful that, because o...
The Jetsons television series about a space-age family featuring “Rosey the Robot” gave us a preview of life with robots, kiosks and interactive television. In 1962, it was a fictitious cartoon; however, in 2018, many of the Jetsons’ conveniences are a reality. Take fast-food restaurants, for example. Faced with a growing shortage of workers and increased costs, some are turning to robots to flip hamburgers and clean grills----mundane, unpleasant and hard to fill jobs. Wendy’s installed self-cl...
Our Governor and Attorney General are at it again. They decided to sue the President over his policy to separate the children of illegal immigrants when the parents are detained. The paperwork was prepared and ready to submit when the President caved under public outcry and reversed his policy. Rather than waste a good opportunity to file a lawsuit, our state leaders modified a couple sentences and filed suit claiming that reversing the separation policy wasn’t enough. I wonder what they really want. The only possibilities I can think of is t...
Allen George Lyden passed away on Sunday, June 24, 2018, at Sacred Heart Providence Medical Center in Spokane. Lenny was born on December 19, 1942, to George and Betty Lyden, in Spokane, Wash. He grew up and attended school at Saint Aloysius and Gonzaga Prep in Spokane. During his childhood, he often spent time with his Aunt, Uncle and Cousins on the farm near Tensed. He played and loved all types of sports. Following high school, Lenny enlisted into the United States Army where he served two... Full story
Two reports last week about the same neighborhood in Pullman call to mind the anchor lyrics from Joni Mitchell's 1970 “Big Yellow Taxi” hit song: Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got `til its gone The Department of Transportation's project list last week for the eastern district announced a plan to remove an unused railroad crossing across N. Grand in Pullman. In Colfax, two Pullman residents who were introduced at Sunday's ice cream social or Whitman County Historical Society announced a launch for the Pullman Depot H...
I'm totally puzzled: How could the United States, Canada and Mexico have successfully convinced FIFA, the international soccer governing body, to award the 2026 World Cup competition to North America, the first time in history that the hosts will be three different countries? But Mexico, Canada and the United States in a joint venue for a NAFTA World Cup? If President Donald Trump goes along as he has so far, the U.S. could be at war with one or both nations by 2026, or at least have built walls on both borders. Or maybe a wall of prohibitive...
The Harvard University admissions process appears to be an ongoing microaggression against Asian-Americans. A group called Students for Fair Admissions is suing the school for alleged racial discrimination and has filed documents in federal court making a persuasive case, based on data provided by the school. Harvard denies it, but one of the imperatives of the affirmative action regime in college admissions is that schools never admit what they are doing. The great and good at Harvard will insist that Asian-Americans all be called by their...
