After a couple of years of litigation, we're getting our first look at the suspect e-mails involving Kootewnai County Prosecutor Bill Douglas and his employee, Marina Kalani. The story is still developing. Another 600 e-mails have yet to be released. But what we do have is sad stuff; sophomoric sex-talk between two public employees who ought to have been spending their time doing the business of citizens instead of making moon eyes at each other on the county's clock. Recognizing we have hundreds of e-mails yet to come, (was Tuesday's) release worth the tens of thousands of dollars we spent fighting in court for access and the time and the money Kalani and Douglas spent trying to keep their communications private? -- Editor Steve Smith/News Is A Conversation.
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
Prosecutor Bill Douglas and his employee, Marina Kalani. The story is still developing. Another 600 e-mails have yet to be released. But what we do have is sad stuff; sophomoric sex-talk between two public employees who ought to have been spending their time doing the business of citizens instead of making moon eyes at each other on the county's clock. Recognizing we have hundreds of e-mails yet to come, (was Tuesday's) release worth the tens of thousands of dollars we spent fighting in court for access and the time and the money Kalani and Douglas spent trying to keep their communications private? -- Editor Steve Smith/News Is A Conversation.
