OPINION: Resolving your critics

The harder you try and the more you succeed, the louder the howl of the critics. If you want a happier new year, resolve to ignore your critics.

OPINION: Laundering lies

It used to be a joke, but now you can seriously consider that if you assume everything you hear or see on the news is a lie you will be closer to the truth then if you assume everything on the news is true.

OPINION: TikTokTek

Persuasion, influence, marketing, campaigning, brainwashing, salesmanship, arguing, and The Art of the Deal, are all names for the age old process of convincing someone to see the world as you do. Some people are natural convincers while others have learned the skills. A few are so bad that they are an effective un-salesman, with a personality that drives others away.

OPINION: American fascism

We see the effect of perspective even in our local paper. When liberals interrupt, yell insults, try to force and agenda change and pull the fire alarm twice at an NIC Trustee meeting the headline is “Sebaaly turns down trustees” but when conservatives concerned about mask mandates in schools gather outside the school district building the headline is “CDA school board meeting disrupted, then canceled.”

OPINION: Presumption of guilt

Innocent until proven guilty is a fundamental legal principle that has its roots in sixth century Roman law which provides that the proof rests with the accuser, not the defendant.

COMMENTARY: A bad idea that sounds good

In 2021, Idaho spent $8,376 per student per year. With 25 students per class that is $209,400 per classroom where the average teachers wage is $51,901. Allowing for benefits and overhead that leaves over $130,000 per classroom per year spent on the public school bureaucracy. If you cut bureaucracy by 10% you could increase teacher’s average salaries by 25% to $65,000 per year. This month, with tens of supporters looking on, the progressive liberal group known as Reclaim Idaho delivered 100,000 signatures to the Secretary of State’s office to put the “Quality Education Act” voter initiative on the November ballot as Proposition 1.

KCRCC: A magnet for hypocritical critics

Listening to all the critics of the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee (KCRCC) one would conclude that the KCRCC is bad for…well…everything.

Good government starts with quality people

Imagine for a moment that Kootenai County government is a car and the car has some handling problems.

Unaffiliated

County Commissioner Bill Brooks severs himself from GOP

County Commissioner Bill Brooks severs himself from GOP

Form of government group hears argument for quality elected officials

Optional forms of government interview KCRCC chairman and Kootenai County Treasurer

Souza vs. McGrane on election integrity

Idaho must lead the way on Election Integrity, but our history is not very good.

In the interest of transparency

Commissioners wait on response from central committees to livestream meetings

Commissioners wait on response from central committees to livestream meetings

One little letter, one big difference

Names sound the same, but they aren't the same guy.