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Think you’re a loser just because you dropped out of high school and never finished the military training you began? Think you’re a dud just because you work as a security guard even though you dreamed of becoming a global savior? Well, don’t beat yourself up. You, too, can become an international superspy like Edward Snowden. Snowden, 29, and possessing all the qualifications to become a grocery bagger, instead gets hired by the National Security Agency as a security guard, after dropping out of high school and the Army....
The Cheney Cemetery Association would like to thank our patrons and volunteers who made this year’s Memorial Day Breakfast a fun event and great success. Special thanks go to Boy Scout Troop 356 for helping to keep everything running smoothly. In addition, the association would like to thank the EWU ROTC for leading the Memorial Walk to the Memorial Day program at Fairview Cemetery. The 2013 program will be remembered for the leadership participation by Cheney youth. Thank you to the Cub Scouts who led the Pledge of A...
Our country is addicted to oil and gas. In recent years the technique of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, or fracking, has gotten greater attention, both positive and negative. It is a Trojan horse, sold to us as a way to become energy independent, provide local jobs, and stimulate the economy. As an MD, I need to note that the disease, death and destruction of fracking outweigh its appeal. Fracking is a process where a large amount of water is mixed with sand and/or chemicals that are then injected deep underground...
How delightful to again experience a fun family event in downtown Cheney. Following the success of the first annual Winterfest, it was decided to revive the annual Mayfest celebration, held this year on May 11. Monies raised by these and future such events support local charities. We are fortunate to have people in our community who wish to revitalize our historic downtown with activities such as these. There were many businesses, vendors and volunteers who participated, but I would like to especially thank Jason Williams of...
The Gardeners of Cheney thank the community for their wholehearted support of our plant sale. It raised funds for horticultural activities at Cheney High School and Medical Lake High School, as well as scholarships for students in the horticultural program at Spokane Community College. We are grateful for plant purchases by many community members, for plant donations by people not even members of our club, and for Mitchell’s permission over many years to use their parking lot for the sale. Sally Shamp Gardeners of C...
The annual Memorial Day service was held Monday, May 27, at the Medical Lake Cemetery with very good attendance. This was a special time to reflect and remember each of the 61 veterans from the Indian Wars, Civil War, World War I and World War II, Vietnam, Persian Gulf to the present time as well as other family and loved ones interred at the historic cemetery. The flag was honorably presented by Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Al McGowan, aerospace science instructor and the Medical Lake High School Junior ROTC color...
Reprinted from The Orange County Register Planning to fly cross-country? You soon might be paying considerably more for your ticket as part of a proposal in the new federal budget President Obama is putting before Congress. “The Obama administration has proposed raising the taxes on air travel by about $14 per flight,” reported the Los Angeles Times. “Higher taxes are needed to help reduce the deficit, pay for improvements at the nation’s airports and add thousands of new immigration and customs officers to reduce wait ti...
I don’t know about you folks but I’m tired of the upsell. I realize that’s what our consumerism society is all about, buying more whether we need it or not. After all, bigger is always better. But I’m tired of it, especially when it comes to food, and I mean fast food. I don’t normally partake in fast food – I’ve found better, tastier offerings in cookbooks that are easy to make once you have a good stockpile of the right ingredients and tools. But now and then necessity steers me to the drive-thru lane and all I want is som...
Within hours of last week’s tornado disaster in Oklahoma, I (like many others) received emails from the President of the United States and my U.S. Senator. With impassioned language, they both claimed to care deeply about yet another community devastated by a cataclysm, and then said the best way for America to respond is to support private charities. The work of non-governmental organizations, no doubt, is critical, and contributing money to them is laudable. But there is something troubling about government leaders i...
In a hallmark speech last week, President Obama unilaterally declared the war on terror over. The end of that war, Obama stated, meant we could return to the halcyon days of the Clinton-era law enforcement, during which America experienced a spate of terrorist attacks ranging from the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 to the Khobar Towers bombing in 1996 to the bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 to the USS Cole bombing in 2000. What justified Obama’s announcement? Nothing, except his nee...
These days, it seems like “pleading the Fifth” is overused. Last week, senior Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner exercised her Fifth Amendment right during Congressional hearings regarding the recent IRS scandal about the agency’s targeting political groups for audits. But, being in a public position of power, should that come without consequences? The Fifth Amendment was created to prevent witnesses from incriminating themselves while on the stand while answering questions. As we all know, lawyers are able to dire...
The editorial on an IRS apology by Joseph Farah disturbs me because of his lack of historical background of investigations by the said agency. The IRS has been using its power of investigation to harass dissident groups in our country in all of my adult memory and probably before my time. The sins of the agency were largely ignored by the main news outlets when the IRS was harassing left of center groups since the Eisenhower administration. The IRS investigated labor unions, the left wing political parties and the SDS to...
In a region that values the outdoors, citizens are being deprived of a beautiful gem, the Fish Lake Trail. This trail would allow non-motorized transit between Spokane and Cheney but it sits unfinished, needing only 2.2 miles of pavement. Some people may point to the projected cost ($6 million) and see it as the roadblock but I think it is a lack of information. I am writing to challenge you to spread awareness of this project. Let’s make the Fish Lake Trail a priority for Spokane County. Let’s build a path that can be enj...
StageWest Community Theater of The West Plains would like to thank everyone that attended our last production of “Arsenic and Old Lace,” by Joseph Kesselring, making it a fantastic success. Also for those of you that attended the Old English High Tea on Mother’s Day, catered by The Mason Jar, a local restaurant, if you enjoyed the tea make sure you stop into The Mason Jar and let them know. Once again we want to also thank Emmanuel Lutheran Church for opening their doors to our performances. Kay Byron Pacheco StageWest Publi...
Back in their day, the tea party folks were riding high, fueling indignation over alleged government-run death panels, a treasonous Federal Reserve and the like. They commandeered sparsely attended Republican primaries, managing to nominate for Senate seats a dabbler in witchcraft in Delaware, holders of strange views on rape in Missouri and Indiana, and in Nevada, a candidate suggesting armed insurrection if her people didn’t win elections. All lost — some in races an old-fashioned Republican would have won. In the int...
Let’s be blunt about the STEP casino. 1,600-plus Spokane Indians and 4,200 (more or less) residents of Airway Heights are so grasping and greedy that they are willing to sell 468,000-plus citizens of Spokane County down the drain for their gain. None are so blind as those who can see but refuse to. If one investigates the police blotter for the Airway Heights Police, one would find weekly arrests for identity theft, driving with license suspended, auto prowling, driving under the influence, accidents, bad checks, fist f...
Keep an eye out for the next Justin Bieber or Mark Zuckerberg at freshman orientation. Also, most of today’s class of 2013 entered college likely displaying some form of hearing loss. The Beloit College Mindset List is an eye-opening read, showing how quickly time changes for students entering college. Beloit has been doing this since 1998, originally as an effort to remind its faculty about how dated some of their references were. Scroll through the list and you’ll see that salsa has always outsold ketchup, the class has...
This weekend is Memorial Day weekend. Officially it’s about remembering those who died in the service of their country, but the three-day timeframe also marks the unofficial beginning of summer. It’s also one of the deadliest weekends on the road, particularly when it comes to fatalities caused by over consumption of alcohol. According to statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in 2010, Memorial Day was the second-deadliest after Labor Day with 397 fatalities nationally, and second to New Yea...
On its face, the murder of Americans in Libya, including our ambassador, has absolutely nothing to do with the inappropriate relationship former President Bill Clinton had with a White House intern. But politically, that’s another story. The Republicans had a powerful weapon against President Clinton. But they couldn’t stop themselves. It wasn’t just wrong; it wasn’t just bad or even egregious judgment. They turned it into an impeachable offense and ended up looking worse than the president. Washington overkill, fueled...
We know Mother’s Day is a day in which we honor women for the good they have done. However, some Congressional folks just don’t agree. Ironically, one of those Congressional women is Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington State’s 5th District. McMorris Rodgers has shown her lack of caring for women by: Opposing raising the minimum wage, voting to stop overtime pay for working families and opposing the Lily Ledbetter Paycheck Fairness Act. She was adamantly against the Violence Against Women Act until 10 minutes after her amend...
Airway Heights is stuck between a rock and a hard place with the high number of criminal activity along Hayford Road. Take one glance at the police reports and each week 25 to 50 percent occur between the Walmart shopping complex as well as Northern Quest Resort and Casino. In last week’s edition, there were nine in those areas. Last month, public defender Ronnie Rae said a new ruling from the United States Supreme Court restricted public defenders to 250 cases per year, or up to 400 weighted cases. Cases can sometimes be c...
By Ben Shapiro Columnist Last week, President Obama traveled to Ohio to speak at the Ohio State University commencement. There, he trotted out his new favorite line of attack against Second Amendment advocates: He said it is unpatriotic to believe in the possibility of government tyranny. Why? According to Obama, the Founding Fathers created our government. The American dream and American government are one and the same. By definition then, believing in the possibility of government tyranny means opposing the Founding Fathers...
Some may disagree, but crime reporting in Cheney, Airway Heights and Medical Lake really is kind of “blah.” It’s got to be a sign of a jurisdiction’s size. First, to have police reports in the first place, even if on a weekly basis. Spokane has police activity up the ying-yang, but we seldom read about it unless someone gets shot, stabbed, blown up or busted with a lot of chemicals. For smaller cities, it’s third-degree thefts, driving while license suspended, domestic violence (which is very serious and not funny, make no d...
Goodbye penmanship. While the study of how to properly craft the written word on paper with a pen or pencil – now to be known as handwriting – has been largely a thing of the past in our schools for years, the word itself will no longer exist – at least in the lexicon of the state of Washington. And while it maybe makes some sense in an ever-emerging digital world to put less emphasis on the actual written word, the idea that the word itself will go away from use in the language of the laws of the state is the important thing...
As the Washington state Legislature was on the verge of sending things into “overtime” – officially a special session – the term title-only bill began to show up in conversations. Call it “drive-thru” law making if you will. Title-only bills are just what the name infers. A bill is given a name and a number but all the blanks are filled in later. Convenient for busy lawmakers who are trying to get as much done within the 90 days they are officially authorized to do business, but potentially dangerous when it comes to the citi...
