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No on hospital bond
I will vote no on the hospital bond.
We can’t afford another increase in our property taxes. We’re overtaxed in this state already. Now we have to worry about an income tax in the near future.
The hospital and medical industry lost all respect when they pushed the Covid 19 manufactured pandemic. They also pushed their curative untested vaccine upon the innocent and the uninformed populous. The medical industry never had informed consent.
FYI, pharmaceutical comes from the Greek word pharmakeia. That word means sorcery. We don’t have healthcare, we have sickcare. The industry created the disease, and then they created the cure. They did this to their fellowman wittingly. I can’t forgive the trauma and treachery of that treason.
-Donna Rae Lands Newport
What’s the real story behind data centers?
Data centers are often promoted as economic engines, but communities rarely hear the full story of their impact in advance. Taxpayers start paying for these projects long before being built—and sometimes even when it never happens.
To attract developers, local governments approve tax breaks, discounted utility rates and costly infrastructure upgrades years in advance.
Roads get widened, substations expanded, and water systems upgraded on the public’s dime while the company can walk away if they want to. The community is left paying off infrastructure debt for a project that never happened.
Even when a data center is built, benefits are often overstated. Modern facilities typically employ only a few dozen workers, many of them specialized positions filled from outside the region. And the environmental cost is real. Data centers consume enormous amounts of electricity and water, straining local resources and leaving long-term impacts on the land, rivers and air. In the end, people pay—and the earth pays too.
This is why the newly introduced Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act matters. Supporters say it would pause new AI-driven data centers until stronger safeguards are in place to protect water, power grids, taxpayers and the environment.
Meanwhile, Rep. Michael Baumgartner has supported legislation that would make it easier for datacenter permits to move forward, even when environmental or community concerns are raised.
-Dianna Michaels Colville
Judge isn’t done standing up for Constitution
Retired Federal Judge J.
Michael Luttig came into widespread national awareness in December of 2020 when he was credited with convincingly informing then Vice President Pence that there was nothing in the U.S.
Constitution that could possibly allow him to unilaterally stop the count, interfere with, or otherwise cause the electoral vote count authorization not to take place. Thus began Donald Trump’s efforts toward the January 6th insurrection, the lies of a rigged election, the unending efforts to dominate the headlines, control the Republican Party, win the presidency in 2024, and destroy our democratic republic making himself king, dictator, and the immortal giant of humanity that he always believed himself to be!
Judge Luttig never went away. He recently spearheaded a group of two to three hundred retired federal judges to file an amicus (friend of the court) brief that seems to have permanently sidelined the $1.8 billion slush fund. It is clear Judge Luttig and his compatriots are not finished.
Even the Supreme Court is listening!
Judge Luttig has recently appeared on Legal AF with a Warning for Trump ahead of 4th of July. Easy to find on YouTube, or MTN. Should be a required view before the holiday!
-Jay Omundson Cocolalla
America looks like the bad actor
What right does America have to force Democracy on Iran when America doesn’t even have Democracy? America has nuclear bombs and a huge military and that apparently gives us the right to rule the world. Imperial empires in world history have all collapsed and failed.
Last week a writer wanted us to destroy Iran’s oil industry to require Iran to have elections.
Meddling in the affairs of other countries isn’t our right and we have our own issues and problems. Certainly, we don’t have the “perfect union” yet.
Every person we bomb and kill creates hatred and revenge against our country. Think of another country killing one of your kids and ask yourself what you would do. Wouldn’t you become a terrorist to have revenge? Bombing other countries makes America a sitting duck for another 9-11 style attack. It doesn’t make us safer.
Instead, we have stopped foreign aid and food programs, then we have kidnapped a foreign country leader and murdered another county’s leader.
American certainly looks like the bad actor in today’s world.
Many of our allies didn’t support the Iran war because we have treated them with disrespect. America stands alone and can fail like other imperial empires.
-Pete Scobby Newport
Flawed claims based on cognitive bias
While analytical skills are useful for specific tasks, I believe common sense is more important when using the internet.
This innate ability is universal, but people often ignore it or suppress it due to cognitive biases and their inherent beliefs.
Misinformation is frequently disseminated by suppressing common sense. Let’s analyze an example: a letter titled “Analytical skills needed now more than ever.” Here are various sentences: A letter writer who accepts that Iran’s enriched uranium is going to be used to make a uranium bomb.” This flawed claim is based on cognitive bias and lacks evidence.
“Uranium hasn’t been used to make a nuclear bomb since 1945.” This is an obvious example of misinformation, clearly based on limited awareness. “So we are on record as the greatest threat to use those weapons.”
An opinion that lacks evidence suggesting the country would be repetitive and not retaliatory in nature. “Only one uranium bomb was manufactured, and all other bombs are constructed using plutonium.” This is another instance of misinformation due to a lack of subject knowledge and bias in research, if any. “So those countries like Iran want nukes to prevent American bombing.” The writer’s previous statements contradict this opinion.
-Renee Webster Newport
