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Thank you to the people who have supported the efforts of those who are walking in concern for the current activities of the Executive Branch of the United States. Thumbs up, horns honking encourage our spirits. Thanks to the woman buying each walker a cup of coffee, and to another person who brought water, and to yet another who brought blueberry tarts. Each one thanked us for standing up and speaking out against actions that affect so many people in our community and in communities across our country. We walk to represent all of us, no...
As DOGE continues its mission of finding Waste, Fraud and Abuse within the Federal Government, I want to share a bit of Greek Mythology with my fellow citizens. It’s about the hound named Laelaps and the fox named Teumessian. Laelaps the hound was destined to catch whatever it chased down. Teumessian the fox was destined to never be caught. Let’s call DOGE Laelaps the hound as it enters the financial offices of the Department of Defense, which we will call Teumessian, the fox. What will happen? You see, the DoD has never been successfully aud...
Well, we are rid of the worst President in the history of the United States and the worst cabinet ever. Almost all Bidens cabinet were LGBT otherwise they were not qualified to be in his cabinet. 21 million illegals let into the US not vetted, Biden advertised for them to come. With the highest inflation in 40 years, corruption all the way through the Federal government and spent our taxpayer’s money on projects that did nothing for the US. I won’t go thru the idiot projects that billions of our tax dollars were spent on. Corruption of the FBI...
While I have never been firmly hooked on fishing, I do have a history of trying my luck. I don’t own rod or reel. I have owned several but the interest of family members has made them disappear. My first experience was when I was a kid in Palouse. The Palouse River was not far away. In fact, it flowed through the center of town. Our family lived above the river. It was only a couple of blocks away. My first gear was a cane pole with some line tied around the end and of course a hook. At the time I could dig a few worms, grab my pole, and I w...
The Star Archives March 24, 1960, Hospital Name Change Contest announcement appears in The Star newspaper. “Name Your Community Hospital, assist the Board of Directors of Coulee Dam Community Hospital to Re-Name your hospital.” The contest ran from March 10-31, 1960. First Prize -- “A Lifetime Membership in the Hospital Corporation will be awarded to the winner. The membership is worth $250.00 and entitles the holder to vote on Hospital business and Annual Corporation Meetings held in January of each year.” Source(s): The Star Archives Compile...
We’d all gain a great deal if we could just talk with people of a different opinion, calmly and rationally. During simultaneous rallies for opposite political viewpoints Saturday along Midway Avenue in Grand Coulee, some people carried signs that could have worked for the other side verbatim: “Stop the Lies” is a common cry both for supporters and detractors of President Trump and his policies. And both sides are full of people who just want what’s best for the country. The difference, it was apparent Saturday, is that they take in informa... Full story
The national debt continues to grow at an exponential rate, and with unified Republican control of the federal government, we have an opportunity to rethink how we manage taxpayer dollars. Spending more than we take in has become the status quo in Washington D.C., and regardless of which party is in power, reforms to this unsustainable practice have continuously been punted in favor of bloating the national debt. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), backed by the authority of an executive order, has been tasked with finding areas in...
The spring runoff will offer the brave whitewater rafting. I’ve had a number of exciting whitewater runs, my last the best. We signed on to a two-day raft trip on the Salmon and Snake Rivers. Most of the time we were in deep canyons, barely able to see the sun. It was in May, and the water was ice cold and the temperature hot. The plan was to do the Salmon first and then take on the Snake. An arrangement was made for us to stay in a log cabin near the end of the Salmon run. My wife and I had taken a number of whitewater trips on the Snake, b...
Dusts ups with our North American trading partners pop up periodically, especially when there is global financial trouble. They can be acrimonious and strain relationships as President Donald Trump is learning. Trump, faced with excessive federal spending and our skyrocketing national debt ($36.6 trillion), re-launched his “Make America Great Again” initiative. It is a blueprint to stimulate job creation in America’s private sector and government efficiency. He wants investments in domestic manufacturing plants, fairer trade with more equit...
Everyone can agree that the country should reign in the debt. But then why is the Trump Administration pushing a budget that extends tax cuts for the extremely wealthy and raises the debt ceiling to four trillion dollars? Lost in all the nonsense circulating about supposed “waste, fraud and abuse” is the fact that the Trump Administration fired many of the Inspectors General (the people responsible for investigating actual waste, fraud, and abuse). All of these seemingly random cuts potentially have disastrous consequences for our com...
Your constant relentless pursuit and defense of the liberal, leftist view, without any balance to the right is disturbing. Makes me rethink weather to renew my subscription in June. Maybe, did ya think that not all your readers voted for Kamala? Ken Noggles...
I appreciate the British saying “bad form” when something is inappropriate and not right. The GCDSD upper brass and some others are showing bad form. Congrats to them for recently barely passing their replacement levy, but to assume with their response that all yes voters believe in them is a stretch. There are many yes voters, even in my family, who voted yes, but for kids, not them. 517 voted no for this ballot measure. To be clear, most of us wanted to support the measure at a much lower, reasonable rate. Next time you take a picture of one...
My message to our US Representative Michael Baumgartner, based on my email to him: Have you no nation-wide condemnation and world apology for how Donald Trump and JD Vance humiliated Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on February 28? And your subsequent call for Zelenskyy’s resignation makes no sense given your statement that Russia clearly started the war and has been the aggressor — on second thought, it makes great sense considering your already evident cowardice in standing up to Trump, Vance, and Elon Musk. You certainly lack the spi...
I have flown several thousand miles in commercial jets, but small planes are my preference. My first small plane ride was here in Grand Coulee and my last was also from here. In the mid 1950’s I was a lumber grader in the planing mill above the dam. I worked for a man named Kirkpatrick. Only the old timers will likely remember either. I worked with a guy who claimed to be an Alaska bush pilot, and he had his own plane here. He told stories of landing in berry patches that stained the underside of his plane. When he invited me to go flying w...
March 10, 1804, France officially transferred its claim to the Louisiana Territory to the United States. President Thomas Jefferson had purchased the territory about a year earlier for the price of $15 million. The official ceremony took place in Saint Louis, Missouri. The Unites States was not making a real estate purchase. It was buying the exclusive Right of Preemption, to purchase or forcibly take lands from numerous indigenous governments who occupied the land. The reality of Louisiana Territory Purchase was 222 land relinquishments from...
Now that the recently completed special election results are certified, the Grand Coulee Dam School District (GCDSD) Board of Directors wants to express our deep appreciation and thanks to our community for supporting our schools by voting to approve our replacement school levy. Your continued financial support remains essential to the quality and future success of our programs, staff and, most importantly, our students at Lake Roosevelt schools. The passing of this levy will enable our School District to continue to provide a varied and...
The protesters are very uninformed or very shortsighted. The United States is in financial trouble, Democrat and Republican Administrations have spent Taxpayers money like it grows on trees. We are $36.2 trillion dollars in debt. At this date we are 124% in debt compared to United States Gross domestic product. To put this in plain terms if all the products made, manufactured were taken by the government they would still be 24% short. What would happen if the creditors demanded their money? The United States would go bankrupt. In that case...
Any battle over tariffs between the United States and Canada, China, and Mexico is worrisome, but if it escalates, it will hit Washington farmers particularly hard. Avoiding that possibility should be a primary goal. Tariffs could trigger new trade wars. The last retaliation in tariffs eight years ago hurt agriculture. “A trade war with economic partners is the last thing our farmers and ranchers need,” said Congressman Dan Newhouse (R-WA4), whose family owns and operates an 850-acre farm near Sunnyside. Excessive costs, turbulent markets, inf...
If only we could all be like Danielle Sassoon, who told the thugs to stick their crime where the sun don’t shine. Hard as it’s been for us sane Americans to navigate the MAGA idiocracy, the journey has been even more torturous this past month for public servants who still believe in venerable America values like the rule of law. This dilemma is not new. Typically, cogs in the government wheel suspend their consciences and bend to the prevailing winds, fearful of job loss and mindful that they have mouths to feed at home. It has long been tha...
In response to your “Behold! I am Reverse Robin Hood” cartoon: I enjoy your cartoons immensely! Where is the outcry from Republican legislators concerning raising the Debt Limit to Four and a Half-Trillion Dollars to cover tax cuts? Why in heavens name would legislators consider tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy while cutting vital programs across the board for American taxpayers? An adage is, if a man earns ten dollars and spends twelve dollars, he is an unhappy man. The same is true of government spending and taxing. Currently, foc...
In the fight against hunger, the United States has been the global leader in delivering much needed aid for decades. For nearly 70 years the Food for Peace program within the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has successfully fed over four billion people in more than 150 countries with American agriculture products. With the recent decision by the Trump administration to freeze all funds for USAID to examine and identify waste, fraud, and abuse, my colleagues and I introduced legislation to move the Food for Peace...
While a member of FIUTS (Foundation International Understanding Through students) I met a young lady from Saigon, who when she learned I was going to Vietnam asked me to visit her parents. My wife and I sponsored two students at the University of Washington under the program. One was from Thailand and the other from Hong Kong. While in the program we met dozens of students who had been sponsored by others in the area. The young Vietnamese lady asked me to look her parents up and convey her greetings if I had the time. I took down their address...
We sold my mom and dad’s dream home last autumn — the Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired mid-century modern house they called home for 25 years. Staying put is becoming more commonplace in America. According to The Atlantic, America, once the most mobile society in the world, has become increasingly stagnant, with fewer people moving between cities, states and even neighborhoods. The American Economic Association’s research finds that internal U.S. migration is at a 30-year low. The Atlantic argues that declining mobility leads to fewer econo...
Atlanta is known for the number of streets with the word “peach” in them. Thankfully, there’s more to Atlanta than peaches. We were there for a newspaper conference, and in the evenings there wasn’t anything going on. So it became a time to explore. In the afternoon one day we went to the church where Martin Luther King preached on Sundays when he was in the city. It was an old church and there were signs out front so you could tell you were at the right place. I guess the reason to go there was to say you had been there. The evenings were fu...
As fentanyl continues to ravage communities across the United States, the Trump Administration has taken measures to ensure Canada, Mexico, and China are doing their due diligence to address this crisis. With illicit drugs flowing over the southern border from Mexican cartels, serious security gaps at our northern border, and China manufacturing fentanyl precursors, the tariffs announced by the administration serve as a reminder of the responsibility these nations have in mitigating the crisis. While the tariffs on Canada and Mexico are on...