Letters

Open Palouse

I had a very small shopping list of things I wanted to accomplish when I was appointed to the Palouse City Council 25 years ago.

Trees for downtown was tops on my list, followed by saving the historic Pratt truss, F-Street bridge.

I lost on both.

A perfectly serviceable bridge was replaced at huge cost by a slab of concrete.

Trees in 1988 could line Main Street for less than a thousand dollars, well within the city’s well-managed budget.

That plan was shelved until then councilman Echanove discovered how persistence could turn a small, local project into a more than hugely expensi...