Sanders Beach has become much more than a dispute over several blocks of beach on Lake Coeur d'Alene. It is a poster child for what seems to be a city campaign to make public as much private property as possible, not always with regards to what's best for taxpayers. With its increasingly powerful, well-funded urban renewal agency, the city pushes forward with purchases to create an expanded education corridor along the Spokane River, funneling current and potential tax dollars directly to the urban renewal agency and not the city's tax base. The city also has given valuable property and is spending millions of taxpayer dollars on a community center that will be owned and operated by a church.

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DFO: Surprisingly, this wasn't written by Larry Spencer or any of the rest of the CAVE (Citizens Against Virtually Everything) gang. Unless, of course, you consider Brand X M.E. Mike Patrick and his boss part of that gang. Which I do. This is part of The Duane's campaign through his snoozepaper to get back at Mayor Sandi Bloem for not supporting his downtown garden. Bloem served this community well by finally forcing the Idaho court to decide the high-water mark on Sanders Beach. It wasn't a Pollyanna attempt to swipe public property. Remember. A lower court ruled for the public. As a result of the city pursuit, there's been peace on Sanders Beach for two years. The Brand X idiotorialist showed his true colors when he used the beach to take a swipe at the urban renewal agency and the Kroc Center. Indeed, Brand X is in bed with the CAVE men.

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