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A current trend sweeping social media is the police lip sync challenge. Law offices across the country are posting videos of anywhere from one person to the entire department―staff and support personnel included―mouthing along to songs from current hits to ones debuted on LP tracks. Different departments have different takes on the videos. For some it is a way to highlight their officers, resources, staff and toys. For others it is just pure fun. A few use it as a way to commemorate fallen com...
Angela Merkel is, her supporters like to gloat, the leader of the free world. Just don't ask her to spend as if she is. Donald Trump has made the German chancellor one of his favorite rhetorical targets, especially over Germany's anemic defense expenditures. This has led to worries about the future of the trans-Atlantic alliance, and reflexive support for Merkel among the American political elite. Trump shouldn't openly mock Merkel, or suggest that there have been annual dues to NATO that Germany has failed to pay. Trump tends to view foreign c...
For those who thought "acronym" was a city in Ohio, it is not. According to my handy dandy online dictionary, an acronym is "a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word," as in WAC from Women's Army Corps or OPEC from Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Or MAGA, as in Make America Great Again, the Donald Trump campaign slogan splattered across red baseball hats worn by millions of Americans, mostly white, mostly intolerant, who have...
We are fortunate to have three enthusiastic candidates for District Court Judge. The successful candidate will assume the position now held by Doug Robinson, who will be retiring at the end of his current term. During his years as District Court Judge, Doug has very ably served us. The three candidates now vying for the position all appear to be qualified to handle the job. Of the three, the candidate with whom I am most familiar is Rob Rembert. Rob's roots run deep in Whitman County. He is descended from some of the County's earliest...
Remember Rembert! I’ve been repeating this almost daily since learning of Rob Rembert’s decision to run for Whitman County district court judge. I believe Rob is the best candidate for the position, and the reasons are numerous. Many of us know that he’s been practicing law in Whitman County for almost 22 years and that he has extensive experience in both criminal and civil law. Did you know that almost 40 percent of the cases filed in Whitman County District Court are civil cases and neither of Rob’s opponents have much experience with ci...
Judging by all the political signs around Whitman County, one of the most contested races seems to be the race for District Court Judge. There are three qualified candidates running for the position and they’re all keeping the sign industry in business. I’m supporting attorney Rob Rembert for the position, having served with him on a number of committees, including the board of the Pullman Chamber. He’s been an outstanding contributor. He has been an attorney for 22 years, served as a temporary District Court judge and a Superior Court Commi...
I support Dan LeBeau for Whitman County District Court judge. Dan has all of the qualities to be an excellent, independent and fair judge. Dan is truly committed to Whitman County to do a great job. Believe me, I know what it takes to be a good judge --Trudy G. Libey, Colfax...
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...
