Twisting the story
Once again, the Lewiston Tribune on Jan. 24 twists a story (well-written by Kathy Hedberg) with a misleading headline.
This is standard practice — the Tribune’s modus operandi — but frustrating nonetheless.
“Idaho County officials say Forest Plan is bad for people, animals” is wrong. The correct headline should be “Idaho County only objects to additional wilderness in Forest Plan.”
I would like to thank Supervisor Cheryl Probert and her team for the rest of the plan.
Skip Brandt
Kooskia
Reconsider vouchers
I wish our legislators the wisdom to reconsider the current enthusiasm for school vouchers in any form, including tax rebates.
It’s a shell game. Just look at Arizona, facing a massive deficit because vouchers cost about half a billion dollars more than projected. (Read that sentence again. Is this what Idaho needs?) Arizona had a big surplus before the vouchers; now they have a deficit they can’t cover. Caveat emptor.
Public education is the foundation of society, and it’s already clear from other states’ experience that school vouchers jeopardize this foundation. The voucher system’s unintended consequences is to cripple public education by squeezing already tight budgets. How can rural schools maintain their infrastructure when their funds are drained? It does not cost measurably less if there are fewer students attending the rural public school; heating and other costs remain the same.
Not a single state with vouchers shows students performing better than their public school peers. Not one state. The argument that a voucher program would allow students to go to a better school system is invalid when rural students have no other choice of school to attend. Meanwhile, the voucher program will only defund public education.
You can’t call yourself a conservative, or someone who believes in fiscal responsibility, and also pass school vouchers. They decimate state budgets by draining education coffers first, and then money from the general fund. It’s a scam.
Keep Idaho strong: Build up public education as a cornerstone of a healthy state.
Rhoda Mack
Viola
Standing his ground
I wish to thank Dr. Ryan Cole for standing his ground as a doctor in protecting his patients’ rights.
The state of Washington Medical Commission’s decision to suspend his license in their state is so wrong. Ivermectin has been prescribed safe for patients for years.
The Epoch Times newspaper on Jan. 10 stated: Two years after health authorities criticized the use of ivermectin for treating COVID-19, and after some doctors’ medical licenses were suspended for prescribing it, a lawsuit revealed that doctors actually could prescribe ivermectin as a therapeutic for COVID-19.
I have witnessed a lot of my friends with serious side effects after receiving the COVID-19 vaccination. I have seen my friends suffer from blood clots, heart problems and severe depression to the point where two of my friends wanted to kill themselves. I have known people who have died of a heart attack just moments after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
Several members of our family refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine. And yes, we did get COVID-19, which lasted for a little more than a week. We all recovered. Several of my friends who received the COVID-19 vaccine did, in fact, catch COVID-19 and were just as sick as we had been with COVID-19.
Cole and Dr. Richard J. Eggleston are my idea of real champions. Thank you both for your efforts in this matter.
I admire Dr. Eggleston’s desire to inform the public on ivermectin and the COVID-19 vaccine.
Dode Bovey
Lewiston
