Just as North Idaho College unwisely announced that it is taking a big dip out of a reserve tax account in the midst of wailing from overburdened taxpayers, Kootenai County officials are padding their bank accounts at precisely the time many of their constituents are struggling to fill their gas tanks to get to work. For that matter, record-setting raises for the county's top brass probably aren't going over very well for the hundreds of county employees who learned recently that they're getting raises one-tenth the size of their bosses'.

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