Press Release from Kootenai County Kootenai County is excited to announce our Annual Application Period for Advisory Board Volunteers. Are you seeking a meaningful and rewarding way to contribute to your community? This is your chance to play a crucial...
Keep Right – Column by Ralph K. Ginorio The reader may recall that, when they took civics in high school, our Constitution had set up a separation of powers in government. Designed to prevent tyranny, patterned on the Roman Republic, and honed by the Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu, this separation was intended...
Ideas make history. They cohere society. They comprise what is generally accepted as being those convictions worth living for, dying for, and killing for. Nothing is more powerful in transforming the world than ideas; not fire, farming, writing, steel making, printing, steam power, nuclear power, space travel, or the internet. These crucial innovations transform how we human creatures live in relation to our physical world.
The need to prioritize policy over personalities cuts both ways. Too often, conservative voters and activists decide that certain figures are the enemy and declare total war. I’ve been called to the carpet more than once for praising Republicans who were considered outside the pale of conservatism, even when the policies in question were ones all conservatives agree on.
It’s time for an honest conversation about the pro-life movement within the Republican party and the abortion-on-demand industry that controls the Democratic party and owns the entire political matrix in which public policy on ‘reproductive rights’ is formed and implemented.
“It is almost certain that Mr. Gookin has objected to certain budget item requests from different Coeur d’Alene departments,” said Rep. Tony Wisniewski. “This does not mean he wishes to defund those departments.”