Sandpoint girl cheers senators’ vote
Hannah is the daughter of Sharon Vogel a Sandpoint woman who suffered from asthma, and died after a particularly smoky day of field-burning on the prairie.
With the eighth grader in the front row, the senators on the Agriculture Committee killed HB 741, which would have undercut a pending lawsuit by creating a new, stringent definition of "economically viable alternative" to field-burning.
"I don't want to sound too melodramatic, but a side product of the law is that it'd be a trillion times harder to find an alternative," Hannah said after the vote. "I am really, really glad ... just thrilled, really."