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The Cheney Post 72 American Legion would like to express our gratitude to the following businesses for their generous support. Our recent Veterans Day dinner and Turkey Bingo were successful, in part, because of all of you. Thank you all! Thank you to Mitchell’s Harvest Foods, Eagles Pub, Jarms, Top of the Line, El Rodeo, Roccos , Napa, O’Reilly’s, Pizza Hut, Papa Murphy’s, Cheney Feed, Subway, The Market Place, Get the Scoop, Dragonfly Crafts, Quality Inn and the Spokane Chiefs. D.D. Powell Cheney Post 72...
On behalf of the Cheney High School Cross Country program, we would like to thank the community of Cheney for their support of our ninth annual Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning. There were over 500 walkers, joggers or runners present for this community event which benefits not only the Cheney Food Bank, but also our cross country program at Cheney High School. We would like to especially thank our sponsors: Cheney Federal Credit Union, Domino’s, Owl Pharmacy, State Farm Insurance, ParaSport, Safeway, Snap Fitness, M...
Abraham Lincoln made this statement on March 4, 1865 at his second inaugural address which was right towards the end of the Civil War in our country: “With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.” We are still recovering from a very acrimonious and painful election season and no matter how we voted most likely few of us got what we wanted, but we did the best we could to vote responsib...
Rose Kline’s letters (8/4/16 and 11/17/16) disqualified Donald Trump on points involving words or actions. With much criticism of his words I agree. With much criticism of his motives and actions I find only opinion and emotion, not substance. Our Constitution allows personal choices and so do I. Consitutional disqualifications for the presidency (Article II, Section 1) number only three: age, country of birth, time of residency. Rose (8/4/16) spoke of a country based on love, fairness, trust, security and freedom. I p...
What a surprise to learn that Candace Mumm lost the election for Spokane County Commissioner. She was the most qualified, experienced and articulate candidate. Her debate performances demonstrated real thoughtfulness and understanding of issues facing our county. Furthermore, she had a very dedicated team running her campaign, people who believed in her as a person who listens to the people. It is especially disheartening that all three Spokane County Commissioners are conservative, as has been the case for several years...
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, unless you purchased the paper on Tuesday which in that case it’s two days away. There will be a number of print article and columns, along with broadcast stories about why we should be thankful, and what we should be thankful for this Thursday. There will also be a fair share about a number of other topics that sprout about this time such as commercialism of the holidays, stress associated with the season and leading into the “War on Christmas” — scheduled to begin this Friday, I believe. I’m not go...
For some, Thanksgiving is a time to gather with family and friends and give thanks for the blessings we enjoy. For others, it’s a time to volunteer at soup kitchens to help the less fortunate while many see it as simply a chance to eat a huge meal and watch football. This year is different. Americans are healing after a historic, tumultuous presidential election. Therefore, it is easy to get sidetracked on what is wrong with our country. In reality, most Americans have no i...
For everyone who chose to put Donald Trump in the oval office I have to ask why? Do you honestly believe he can fix America’s problems? You have to love all people in this beautiful country including immigrants who are here, they came here to find peace, to find happiness that they deserve like all of us, they wanted to find an opportunity for a good education to better themselves. They are wanting freedom, they don’t want to live in countries where they have no real freedom, where they are persecuted, often times kil...
As you know, I am a longtime fan of professional wrestling. Usually when someone involved with wrestling makes the news, it’s not for a good reason, and this past weekend was no different. Joey Styles, an announcer and commentator who had worked for Extreme Championship Wrestling and the WWE, was fired from Evolve Wrestling, an independent wrestling organization. During an event, Styles made an inappropriate comment toward ring announcer Joanna Rose, saying she “looked great tonight and if our next president were here ton...
The Nov. 8 election has come and gone and Republican candidate Donald Trump is the next President of the United States. Who would have thought we would be printing those words? There are many folks out there who are scared — particularly people of color, Muslims, immigrants and the LGBTQ community — of what a Trump presidency means for the country’s future. During his campaign, Trump said and promised many things, including a mass deportation of immigrants and denying some Muslims entry into the country. People from both...
I would like to thank my many friends and neighbors for their kind expressions of sympathy on the death of my husband, Don. I greatly appreciate the cards, flowers and gifts as well as the food provided for the family. I also want to thank Father Paul for his support during this time. Jean McMillan Cheney...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Those of you who know me or read my past columns know that I spend time in Guatemala periodically on mission work. My first trip was in 2008, and I have been down to that Central American country in four of the last five summers. I have made good friends in that country among the native Maya that we visit, and I follow what happens there. At times, I have even thought about what it might be like to live in Guatemala, to stay and not return home. Frankly, I feel the people we visit, the Q’eqchi Maya, t...
Mr. Luther’s letter (Cheney Free Press, Nov. 3) left a lot unsaid. Example: “two Democratic senators” helped Republicans kill a public option for Obamacare. Omitted was a third non-Republican pseudo-Democrat Lieberman. Those three would not agree to cloture. Harry Reid and Democrats, not Republicans, killed the option. Public option is the first step toward a single-payer system. Recently, Democrats Kaine, Tester and McCaskill refused to sign a Senate resolution supporting the public option. Single payer, a.k.a, a compl...
So what did it take? A shower, a bath — or both? Maybe taking advantage of a few unseasonably warm days recently and stepping into the new automated bay at the Brown Bear Car Wash in Cheney, sans car? Regardless, it likely took a lot to wash off the crud we’ve been spattered with along the road of the 2016 presidential campaign. But it’s done, for a few days at least until we start hearing rumblings for 2020. And don’t we somehow as a nation have to move forward? While the race was potentially a close one, or a blowout...
The Cheney Kiwanis Club would like to belatedly thank all who helped make the Blackhawk Scramble golf event a big success this last July. Cheney Federal Credit Union was our main sponsor. Hole sponsors were: Owl Pharmacy, Copy Junction, Collins Dentistry, Andrew Martinsen D.D.S., Cheney Free Press, State Farm Insurance (Jackie Scholz), Cheney Spinal Care and Kendall Van Horne. Tee sponsorships were provided by: Hilton Real Estate, Cheney Veterinary Clinic, Vision Haus, Eagle’s Pub, Cheney Realty, Jacob Ridl D.D.S., Mint Condi...
In 2009, all Republican and two Democratic senators killed Obama Care’s proposed “public option” that likely would have led to a national, single-payer health care. Now Hillary Clinton has suggested reintroducing this Medicare-for-all option. Thus hopes are raised of reducing health care costs, impossible until health insurance companies lose control, while also increasing Obama Care’s improvements in coverage. Canadian single-payer universal health care costs only 60 percent of the U.S. system, with better results (life e...
With the presidential election less than a couple of weeks to go, this campaign will go down as one of the nastiest in history. As a retired military member with 30 years of service, I have been all over the world to protect our country. With all the garbage out there, it boils down to who you think is best to be president. Just remember Donald Trump, didn’t lie to Congress, Trump didn’t lie to the FBI, Trump didn’t have four illegal servers, Trump didn’t let four people die in Benghazi, Trump didn’t delete 30,000 e-mails o...
Unfortunately, Cathy McMorris Rodger’s political ambition has left behind any moral principles. My party and McMorris Rodgers have crossed the line supporting Donald Trump and have abandoned not only standards of decency but true conservatism. I’m not sure who to vote for but it won’t be Trump or Rodgers. Tanner Morgan Walla Walla...
By Staff Reporter It is seemingly such a miniscule ask from the Spokane Transit Authority on the November ballot for their Proposition 1. A yes vote will authorize a mere two-tenths of 1 percent of the sales tax to improve their service to Spokane County. But there’s another small number that voters rarely, if ever, see. Unless they subscribe to the Spokane Journal of Business and receive that publication’s yearly economic fact book, or spend endless hours diving into census d...
What would you give up to cut back medical fraud while also improving your doctor’s ability to anticipate your medical needs before they actually occur? Would you give up your personal privacy? According to a recent Los Angeles Times story, we might not be far from this scenario. In “Consumer Confidential,” author David Lazarus writes that defense contractor Northrup Grumman has signed a $92 million contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to build the second phase of a computer system that while focused o...
Unfortunately, 5th District Represenative Cathy McMorris Rodger’s political ambition has left behind any moral principles. My party and McMorris Rodgers have crossed the line supporting Donald Trump and have abandoned not only standards of decency but true conservatism. I’m not sure who to vote for but it won’t be Trump or Rodgers. Tanner Morgan Walla Walla...
Jeff Holy (6th District representative, R-Cheney) must go. Reading his biography in the Spokesman Review convinced me he is not a proper representative for this legislature. He has a positive stance on charter schools, which is contrary to the business of Cheney, Wash. Education is the business because the two largest employers in town are Eastern Washington University and the Cheney Public Schools. The major contributor to the business of our country has been and still is education for all, which the Cheney School District...
Cathy McMorris Rodgers, our representative in the U.S. House of Representatives 5th District for over a decade, boasts of three major accomplishments — hydropower, which almost nobody is against, and two bills which benefited the disabled or families of the disabled. That is wonderful, and is likely a result of her having a child who has Down Syndrome. Despite this condition, she voted more than 50 times against the Affordable Care Act otherwise known as Obamacare that has already helped millions obtain health care. It is t...
It’s D-Day for American voters. With Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump carrying unusually low approval ratings and having a deep antipathy for one another, no matter which one ultimately is elected, the nation will be bitterly polarized. Hopefully, each has a plan to bring us back together after Nov. 8. America thrives on a peaceful transfer of power. It is one of the important traditions which has been handed down since John Adams succeeded George Washington on March 4, 1...
In the 1973 Western classic “High Plains Drifter,” Clint Eastwood’s man-with-no-name character is asked by another what they are supposed to do after the citizens of the town of Lagos kill three cowboys they backstabbed after hiring them to protect the town. “What about after?” Mordecai asks. “What about after we do it? What do we do then?” “Then you live with it,” Eastwood replies. With the 2016 election rapidly, and mercifully, coming to a close, those of us who vote will be faced with that same realization — wha...
