Issue: Jail expansion gets bigger price tag: Committee evaluating ballot measure’s failure determines $55 million now/Taryn Brodwater, Spokesman-Review
DFO: I voted for it last time because the half-cent sales tax will provide considerable property tax relief. I’ll vote for it again this time. The problem isn’t going away. But I hope county commissioners will push this idea better this time around, if they decide to put it on the ballot again.
Interesting Sentence: “Commissioner Gus Johnson didn’t return calls seeking comment Wednesday.”
Question: Will you support a half-cent local-option tax for expand the jail if it’s on the November ballot? Or is $55M too much?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
999 W. Riverside, Spokane, WA 99201
P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210
Main switchboard: (509) 459-5000 • (800) 338-8801
Newsroom: (509) 459-5400 • (800) 789-0029
Customer service: (800) 338-8801
© Copyright 2013, The Spokesman-Review
Terms of use • Privacy policy • Copyright policy
Spokane7
59°
Get blog updates by email
Find DFO on Facebook
DFO on Twitter
Please keep it civil. Don't post comments that are obscene, defamatory, threatening, off-topic, an infringement of copyright or an invasion of privacy. Read our forum standards and community guidelines.
You must be logged in to post comments. Please log in here or click the comment box below for options.
comments powered by Disqus« Back to Huckleberries Online