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The Palouse River Watershed Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP), now in its third year, has assisted more than 40 landowners in achieving conservation goals on their land. The RCPP program covers the entire Palouse River drainage in Whitman, Latah, Spokane, Lincoln and Adams counties. Authorized under the 2014 Farm Bill and directed by the NRCS, RCPP acts as a one-stop shop for landowners to receive assistance that is tailored to their specific conservation goals with funding allocated from multiple sources. Landowners interested i...
Endicott Jenny Meyer of Endicott Food Center has purchased a free-standing billboard for use in advertising community events. The board will be just outside the store, on the corner, and in use for the next few weeks advertising the Flea Market May 19 at the Endicott Gun Club. Please stop by the store or Town Hall for entry forms for this event....
Janene Grende, Sandpoint, is the artist behind this highly detailed silk painting. Three Northwest artists share exhibit space at Artisans at the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown during May. An opening reception will be Sunday, May 6, from 1-3 p.m. Judy Fairley, Janene Grende and Dave Gressard will display a variety of mediums, all depicting northwest birds, wildlife and horses. The show continues through May 27. Fairley, of Clarkston, is a member of the national scratchboard association. She teaches a...
Dusty Carmen and Blake Heaton took a 3,500-mile trip along the southern part of the United States in a 1997 Chevy pickup they were delivering to their grandson, Valente Reynoso in Florida. They began the trip by driving to Phoenix where they spent two and a half days with their son Christopher. The next stop was Abilene, Texas, where they had planned to meet an artist Carmen wanted to see. Unfortunately, he was at his day job in court as a judge so was unable to get together with them. He makes sculptures, mainly of animals, out of silverware.... Full story
REAL ESTATE Kevin Kirkman, Pullman, to Raymond and Carla Charfauros, San Diego, Calif., 24 unit apartment on Latah Street in Pullman, $2,860,430, April 9. Ernst Witte Family Limited Partnership to Jenifer Fournier, Henderson, Nev., land northwest of Steptoe, $172,375, April 12. Jesse Anderson, Post Falls, to Justin and Kristin Million, Pullman, house on SW Lost Trail Drive, Pullman, $262,000, April 13. R.B. Olson Construction, Pullman, to Neal and Jeannine Goodwin, house on NW Marshland, Pullman, $429,000, April 13. David Watkins, Pullman, to...
I admire leaders who surround themselves with very smart people. Good managers use their experts to make their organizations better. It would seem that President Trump missed that lesson in management class. He has obviously been successful in business, successful enough to fund his own campaign. But managing a private business is different than administrating a government. The profit motive of private business is paramount to all other considerations. Not so in government. Private business is “for the stockholders.” Governments are “for the p...
Millions of college graduates find themselves saddled with crushing debt and more than a third of them won’t be working in their chosen profession. Many will be working for low wages. Meanwhile, there are millions of high-paid jobs available in the skilled trades – electricians, plumbers, manufacturing workers, pipefitters, mechanics, appliance repair, computer techs, medical assistants and welders. Known as blue collar jobs, they routinely pay $45,000 to $65,000 a year or more. According to Salary.com, the average heavy equipment operator in...
James Comey did it, naturally, for the children. Why does anyone in Washington take advantage of the most opportune moment to make a mint off publishing a tell-all book? It's never for the profits or the sheer satisfaction of sticking it to your enemies and putting yourself in the best possible light. No, there's always some ostensible higher cause. For the former FBI director, it's demonstrating, through his own sterling example, what ethical leadership is, "especially to young people." That the nation's youth will be riveted to their TV... Full story
In Washington politics, rarely does anybody fully mean what he or she says. But few who know Paul Ryan doubt that he's sincere when he explains that he's abandoning his all-consuming job as House Speaker to spend much more time with his wife, Janna, and their three kids. Believe it when he says he's not running for re-election to Congress because he's longing to be more than a "Saturday dad." So, he'll be going home to Janesville, Wisconsin, as a private citizen next year. However, another reality in Washington is that there usually is more to...
Idaho has a slogan to encourage highway cleanliness: Idaho is too great to litter. It may be time for Whitman County to start up its own campaign because the picture-perfect Palouse isn't so pretty when its decorated in empty beer cans and broken bottles. Sunday was Earth Day. Thirty-five volunteers from Endicott spent three hours cleaning up along the roadside on the seven-mile stretch between Endicott and Winona. Many of the volunteers were amazed at the number of trash bags needed for this one section of lightly-used county road. The... Full story
I can’t feel sorry for Stormy Daniels. This saga shows American politics at its worst. For those who haven’t followed the scandal in detail, let me recap the sequence of events as I understand them. In 2006, a sleazy British tabloid claimed a professional bad girl had a one-night stand with a rich American tycoon. The bad girl categorically denied the whole thing. Then, ten years later the tycoon decides to run for president. The bad girl threatens to publicly expose the affair that she earlier denied unless she is paid a whole bunch of mon...
President Trump campaigned on cutting taxes, streamlining regulations and improving infrastructure. He also vowed to renegotiate our trade agreements calling the North American Free Trade Agreement “the worst deal ever made.” On his first day in office, he signed an executive order aimed at reducing regulations and controlling regulatory costs. However, revamping our vast web of federal rules is much easier said than done. It is even more difficult when state and local rules are considered. The cost of regulations is a key American com... Full story
Slipped away When I read Richard Stanton’s rather hate-filled letter to the editor last week, I found myself agreeing with one of his points. Adultery is an egregious and deplorable behavior. But I seem to recall just in my lifetime a lot of politicians that have been alleged to have engaged in that conduct. Let me see … JFK, RFK, LBJ, Bush 41, Bill Clinton, Bush 43, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy ... and the list goes on ad-nauseam. Maybe it would be easier to make a list of politicians who have not had allegations of infidelity th... Full story
Once again, Mark Zuckerberg is sorry. The founder of Facebook, who has apologized for privacy breaches throughout much of his company's existence, is back at it, on a much larger stage than ever before. The proximate cause is the Cambridge Analytica controversy. In violation of Facebook's rules, the Trump-linked political consultancy schemed to get access to the data of 87 million users. This has made Facebook a scapegoat for President Donald Trump's victory on par with the Russians and James Comey (at least before the FBI director got fired...
In spite of all the controversy about Scott Pruitt's cushy D.C. condo, it's entirely appropriate that he was getting a sweetheart deal on a place to sleep. After all, for his entire political career, he's been in bed with the special business interests who resist any and all government efforts to protect against their ravaging of the environment. In Oklahoma, as a state senator, then attorney general, and now the Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Pruitt has been a stalwart opponent of any regulation that... Full story
In many cases, Americans are struggling to understand what is happening in the country. Most confounding is the role of the various departments and agencies in the functioning of government. Agencies seem at odds, departments seem over-reaching and political appointees seem independent. On top of this, Congress is unable to conduct important business and is becoming more divided along party lines. The president is at odds with both elected and appointed leaders. Democracy is neither pretty nor the most efficient. It can be messy. It can get...
I finished my taxes a few weeks ahead of the deadline. Yippee!!! Now I can worry about something else. When I talk to my friends, I find I am one of the few who prepares their own tax returns. Most are afraid to make a mistake or decide not to spend the time. The IRS publishes estimates of the time required to prepare each form. They are pretty accurate. By the time I read the instructions, sorted my files into the appropriate piles, and completed the forms, I had invested more than three full days. I recall a big IRS push a few tax seasons...
Any trade war between the United States and China is worrisome, but if it escalated and tariffs are imposed, it will hit Washington particularly hard. Avoiding that possibility should be our primary goal. Our state is our nation’s third largest exporter with more than half of the containers leaving the Puget Sound heading to China. The Port of Seattle estimated that China trade alone accounted for $18 billion last year and 40 percent of our state’s jobs are now tied to trade. President Trump has proposed tariffs as a bargaining chip to get a b...
“Traitor” Trump One of many things I can't understand about the supporters of "Treasonous" Trump is the extreme hypocrisy of otherwise honorable, God fearing people. Multiple evangelistic and other Christian leaders have publicly given "Adulterous" Trump a "mulligan" on his many violations of the Ten Commandments -- What?? A mulligan like in a golf game!! What happened to morals? This son-of-a-gun screwed around on his third wife with at least two other women while his wife was taking care of their newborn child! Also, it is very well kno...
President Donald Trump gets results. His attacks on Amazon have tanked the company's stock. It's hard to think of a more pointlessly destructive act of presidential jawboning in our history. The online retailer is a jewel of our market economy that has delivered more choice and convenience at a lower cost. The backdrop for Trump's animosity is that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post, which, like much of the major media, is unrelentingly hostile to the president. The bias of the Post is nothing new, nor should it be taken out on the...
Does anybody know or care where Laura Ingraham is "vacationing"? Ingraham, who has been a mouthpiece for right-wing nastiness for decades, recently had gravitated to a perch at Fox News (where else?) to do the venomous schtick that has brought her fame and fortune. But then she crossed the teeny-bopper. Not just any teeny-bopper. This is David Hogg, the extremely telegenic Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School senior and survivor of the shooting massacre there on Valentine's Day. He's a founder of the Never Again MSD movement and a leader of...
The last presidential election was targeted by Russia and others. The alleged purpose was to sway the results towards Donald Trump. Allegations claim that hackers gained access to 21 state voting systems, although reportedly no votes were changed in those systems. These breaches were the most direct attack on the election process. Yet, during the campaign, other attacks occurred. False news, fake endorsements and the like were disseminated to confuse and influence votes in favor of Trump. Some call the efforts “meddling.” Others call them dir...
I have followed Mark Rypien’s denunciation of the NFL, and football in general, as the cause of his mental illness. I have no doubt that his condition is genuine, and there may be some merit to his claims; the courts think so anyway. His lawsuit against the NFL resulted in a $765 million judgment and initiated a strict concussion protocol. His cause is supported by Dr. Omalu, author of the book “Concussion.” Dr. Omalu warns parents against allowing children to play any contact sport. He would have us believe that most football players suffe...
Rewording Frank Watson (Stop the Violence - March 29, 2018,) oh you are the good company man, as exemplified by your implied rewording of the firearms industry slogan, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" into, "Guns don't kill people, frivolous lawsuits kill people." However, tort reform will not stop the violence. Mark Olson, Seattle Unacceptable I have never claimed to be the sharpest knife in the drawer, most of the people that know me would probably say “Yeah he’s a good guy, a little slow sometimes but he means well.” I don’t... Full story
All you needed to know about student activist David Hogg's speech at the "March for Our Lives" in Washington, D.C., was that he affixed a price tag on the microphone to symbolize how much National Rifle Association money Sen. Marco Rubio took for the lives of students in Florida. The stunt wasn't out of place. Indeed, it perfectly encapsulated the braying spirit of the student gun-control advocacy in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting. These young activists are making our public debate even more poisonous and less civil, and are...
