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We’ve all heard the term gig economy. Well, now we have the GIG administration, that being Grift, Incompetence and Graft.
Can we endure three more years of Drowsy Don and his cadre of pathetic boot lickers? We are seeing hypocrisy taken to a incredible new level. The Napper-in-Chief pardons people then claims not to know who they are when asked.
He babbles on about narco-terrorists then pardons the man found guilty of bringing 400 tons of cocaine into America. Is he, or his grifting minions, getting paid for these pardons? He called himself the Affordability President then claims affordability is a Democrat scam. And his hoard of buffoons eat this stuff up, going so far as to praise him for keeping hurricanes away from the country. Huh? Columnist George Will nailed it when he called these bottom feeders “a sickening moral slum of an administration” recently. It seems no vile or vindictive act is beneath them.
Steve Bennett Newport
I never thought he would be elected again, so …
Wonderful news!
I just read but cannot verify since it was on the internet that our very own dictator Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize! Wow! That’s big stuff!
When he finds out he loses he is going to need a gross of McDonald’s burgers to do his famous (trying for 90 mph) pitch at the wall!
His ketchup Scrappies stand ready! Is scrappies really a word? It has to come off the wall by someone.
I figure there is no way he will get this honor just as I knew there was no way he would be elected president the second time.
As Gilda Radnor said on Saturday Night Live one time “Never mind!” Roger Castle Newport
Do we really need school bond?
The request for a bond issue to modernize a very functional facility is questionable. Are the issues of such magnitude that the taxpayers should accept a 23% increase in their property tax rate? This increase will be greater every year for the 23-year life of the bond issue. The average home today that is assessed at $400,000, will cost an additional $760 per year for the taxpayer for this bond issue.
If the bond issue and the levy issue were to not be passed, this same homeowner will realize a $600 reduction in their taxes.
Looking at the Newport School District’s website indicates a continual decrease in student population for the foreseeable future.
The budget, which is incomplete, currently is in excess of $22,000,000. That figure is for 908 students, being served by 284 staff. As a 1961 graduate of NHS, I recollect the same number of district students with a staff of roughly 60 really nice people.
Many of my fellow students became doctors, lawyers, and leaders in the community. We did not worry about losing our home through taxation foreclosures.
Mike Hanson Three term Pend Oreille County Commissioner Newport
How will traffic camera info be handled?
In communities like ours, new technology often arrives quietly.
Most people don’t hear about it until it’s already installed, already recording, already shaping daily life. Automated license-plate reader systems are one of those tools now appearing across rural towns, including here in Newport.
This letter isn’t written in fear or accusation. It’s written in the belief that transparency is part of public safety. When a system records every vehicle that passes a camera, the community deserves to understand how that information is handled: How long is it stored?
Who has access?
What safeguards prevent misuse?
What limits ensure the system protects citizens instead of monitoring them without their knowledge?
These are reasonable questions, not political ones. They belong to everyone who lives, works, or drives here.
Small towns thrive when people feel included in the decisions that affect them. We don’t need anger or alarm — we simply need information. Before surveillance tools become permanent infrastructure, our community deserves a clear explanation of how they benefit us and what protections ensure they are used responsibly.
An informed town is a safer town.
Saundra Park Newport
Double tap
All the media is talking about this week is the double tap on the narco boat on Sept. 2. The mission was to destroy the boat and drugs. From the videos that I’ve seen, the boat wasn’t destroyed with the first missile. It took a second missile to destroy the boat and yes at least one person was killed on the second strike.
Both Trump and Hegseth have said in the past that we have intel operations ongoing in Venezuela.
They know when the drugs are loaded and when they are headed to sea. Some seem to think we should care more about who’s on the boat rather than the drugs it’s carrying. Those drugs are killing Americans by the tens of thousands.
Analogy: Intel says there is a bomber with a weapon of mass destruction and its mission is to drop it on an American city. It takes off from a foreign country heading for America but intel doesn’t know anything about the pilot. Do we want it shot down anyway, or not? If the first missile doesn’t destroy the plane, do we shoot a second time? To me it’s common sense.
Protect Americans.
Glen Pierce Spokane/Cusick
Show us the proof
America now kills attack survivors in the water, something we executed Japanese and German generals for after WWII. Our moral high ground is in the basement of the destroyed Whitehouse East Wing. We don’t shoot attack survivors because one day the people in the water could be Americans.
Even made-up wars have rules.
Will Trump order our military to finish off wounded American demonstrators shot by our soldiers? You know, like the IDF shoots Palestinian kids who throw rocks at their tanks. Look at blown up Gaza and Ukraine as a future for American cities that oppose Trump’s authoritarian military deployments. This can only be stopped by our troops refusing to kill our own citizens.
Trump is practicing on drug boats and will use the rationale that terrorists could be inside the USA on a boat, building or vehicle. Boom! Trump has called for his political opponents to be executed and why should we expect otherwise? It’s simple, Trump as commander in chief has the power to order our military to kill anyone and anywhere. Trump will make up phony excuses like “narco-terrorism.” Show us the proof that drugs on the boats made it to the veins of Americans.
Pete Scobby Newport
