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OPINION: Stop spending my money on stupid stuff!

by MARC STEWART/Guest Opinion
| March 22, 2024 1:00 AM

Twenty years ago, Kootenai County was a place where elected officials guarded taxpayers’ dollars like the gold in Fort Knox. We protected our public assets and knew we shouldn’t spend recklessly.

Local elected leaders begrudgingly opened the taxpayer coffers but only after much deliberation and thought. Back then, leaders used common sense and always remembered the taxpayers were on a budget. 

Those days are long gone. You only need to look to North Idaho College and the Community Library Network as proof of what’s gone wrong. 

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