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OLYMPIA – The state Department of Ecology is offering money for local governments to buy private water rights to make “water banks.” The program allows counties, cities, towns, water districts, etc. to use Ecology funds to buy private water rights and place them in a government-controlled “bank” using the agency’s trust water right program. “The goal is to preserve water supplies for local use,” Ecology spokesman Jimmy Norris said. Not all water bought for the bank would be a...
Medical freedom is more than women deciding if they are going to abort a pregnancy. It is a person’s decision if they want to waive resuscitation. It’s ending untreatable painful suffering. It’s choosing to take a riskier healing path than what’s recommended. It’s deciding what drugs to take. It’s deciding on vaccinations. The trio of COVID vaccinations was not welcomed by everyone. Some people decline to receive them. It used to be we had a right in Washington to decline medi...
COLFAX – About 80 dead white-tail deer have been found so far around the city. Public works have picked up the dead deer found in city limits, Police Chief Bruce Blood said last week. Four of the deer were found while they were alive and ill. They were dispatched by officers. “To let them go would have left them suffering,” he said. “It’s tragic that something like this happens.” Blood said a similar situation happened in 2015. “It’s not very unusual, unfortunately....
PULLMAN – Washington State University Cougars' quarterback Jayden de Laura was found not guilty of DUI by a judge in Whitman County District Court on July 29. There was no jury, it was a bench trial determined by Judge Pro Tem Douglas Robinson. "They brought up a lack of evidence ... they showed video from the officer's body camera that he wasn't staggering or slurring his speech," said Whitman County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Tessa Scholl. "I think his attorneys did a great j...
It’s shaping up to be the year for conspiracy fans. UFOs are confirmed by the U.S. military and now government censorship through social media platforms is acknowledged. “We are in regular touch with social media platforms … We’re flagging problematic posts for Facebook,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said during a July 15 press conference. She was speaking alongside Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy about information provided about COVID, treatments and vaccinati...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A proposed federal act’s acronym is named after Malden since it is designed to help rural communities find government aid after a disaster. The Making Aid for Local Disasters Equal Now (MALDEN) Act is designed to speed up disaster assistance. The bill is named after the Town of Malden, which was 80% destroyed by the Babb Road Fire in 2020. Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-5th District, introduced the bill on June 15. “The devastation caused by the B...
COLFAX – Fifteen people are charged with furnishing liquor to minors after a Washington State University (WSU) student died of alcohol poisoning in 2019. Samuel H. Martinez, 19, of Bellevue, was a pledge to the fraternity Alpha Tau Omega on Linden Street in Pullman. He died on Nov. 12, 2019, during a fraternity event. The Wittman County coroner ruled his death as accidental acute alcohol poisoning. Martinez was last seen to be alive at 2 a.m. on Nov. 11 while sleeping on h...
PULLMAN – Washington State University is helping to spend $23 million to study how dogs get old. The Washington State University (WSU) College of Veterinary Medicine seeks local dogs to help in the Dog Aging Project, a five-year study to better understand how dogs get old, said a WSU spokesperson. The National Institute on Aging, a part of the National Institutes of Health, is funding the project. Seven colleges of veterinary medicine around the country are participating in t...
SPOKANE – The research into a new genetic test for beef tenderness may have been stolen by Washington State University, according to Selah-based Tenet Beef. A federal lawsuit was filed against WSU and professor Zhihua Jiang by Tenet Beef in the U.S. District Court of Eastern Washington on April 2. They are asking for injunctive relief and a jury trial to determine if WSU violated federal law to protect companies' trade secrets and the state's Public Records Act. An amount o...
OLYMPIA – The Office of Firearm Safety and Violence Prevention was launched on March 25 to address community gun violence. It is part of the Department of Commerce and is a “statewide effort to coordinate evidence-based intervention and prevention strategies.” “The office’s work will be directed at the highest risk populations of perpetrators and victims in the highest risk communities,” stated Penny Thomas, a representative of the department of commerce. “The office will f...
A new proposed law smells like tyranny. House Bill 1283 would make it illegal for three people or more to open-carry firearms if someone else “feels threatened.” It would be a gross misdemeanor. If a person in “any way participates” in threats or the use of “such force” against a person or property while open-carrying a gun in a group of three or more, then they face a Class C felony. That means the state strips them of their right to own firearms as a convicted felon. The...
COLFAX — Incumbents Sen. Mark G. Schoesler and Rep. Mary Dye are leading the races for 9th Legislative District positions. Schoesler, R-Ritzville, is running unopposed after Democratic candidate Jenn Goulet dropped out of the race. Scheosler received 7,805 votes in the first count, and Goulet 6,077 votes. Dye of Pomeroy, the Position No. 1 lawmaker, is running against Libertarian Brett Borden. Dye leads with 8,824 votes; Borden trails with 4,071 votes after the first count. Meanwhile in the Position No. 2 race in the same d...