Letters

I believe that animal shelters should bring animals to schools when they are conducting state testing. I am going to be doing state testing soon and it makes me very scared because I don't want to fail. When you are stressed out, concentration can be hard and having animals around makes it easier.

Of interest to me, but not surprising, was the recent decision by an independent panel of citizens to award the Spokane County commissioners a 19 percent pay raise. Whether the commissioners deserved the raise was decided by the panel. More to the point is the continuing undervalued worth of the rank and file.

I was distressed about the March 25 story concerning Rachel Dolezal. This article seemed to glorify Rachel's attempt to con the public about her racial identity issues. What race a person "identifies" with is a personal matter, as long as you do not fabricate stories about your past, lie on employment applications or use your job position to make false, negative statements to hurt community people like Annie Pennington, owner of the Hillside Inn Restaurant in Spokane.

As the Citizens United decision determined corporations to be "persons," it follows that a logical conclusion would be to abolish the corporate tax rate and replace it with the same progressive income/tax rates that the rest of we "persons" use; that would be some serious tax reform.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asked for a review of all consent decrees entered into with police departments (intent to close them) believing they constitute overreach and the federal government should not be involved in how police departments operate.

We loved Dana Milbank's April 6 column, "Trump being trolled by dictionary." He left out one word that everyone should know and regularly use: "trumpery."

North Korea continues to rattle its saber against the United States and our allies in South Korea and Japan. As it continues to test missiles as carriers of nuclear warheads, it may have targets among those allies.

Thank you, Spokesman-Review, for publishing, "How your U.S. lawmakers voted: Inland Northwest Tally."

What's happened to the character and integrity of Americans that makes more and more of us think that we have a right to someone else's time, knowledge, labor and/or earnings? That's what's implied when someone says, "health care is a right."

Thanks for the article on the pending safety improvements to North Monroe. However, it is discouraging to see some businesses opposed.

I am an American. America is not just a place on the map nor just a physical location. It is an ideal, a concept.

In November, 42 percent of women gave Trump their vote. The only thing the other 58 percent of us women would like to give him is a swift kick in his posterior.

Conservatives are rejoicing that they have replaced Justice Scalia with a "constitutionalist." Republican senators have such passion for the Constitution they were willing to ignore their constitutional duty to provide "advice and consent" when Obama nominated a replacement.

The subhead on the April 12 cover ("Airline will review politics after doctor with felony conviction had to give up seat") is awful and evidence of implicit bias on the part of The Spokesman-Review.

Remember the Maine! Remember the Tonkin Gulf incident? Weapons of mass destruction? Yellow cake? Evil Iraqis unplugging the incubators of Kuwaiti babies? The endangered American students in Grenada? The savage Huns killing Belgian babies?

Regarding Allen DeLaubenfels' letter ("Health care a basic right," April 4): Using his perverted interpretation of the Declaration of Independence and his claim that health care is an "unalienable right," let's carry it to a logical conclusion. Since housing keeps us warm and secure, the government should provide us with free housing, and since we need food to live, the government should provide free food. We also need clothing to keep warm to live so how about free clothing and do not forget shoes.

I am upset that the politicians in Washington state believe that they can ignore the laws of the country. Not everyone likes Mr. Trump, but he was elected by the people to be president of the United States. If his administration elects to enforce federal law that marijuana is illegal, work with other states to change the federal law, don't just ignore the existing law.

Here we go again. On April 1, the S-R published an article about Gonzaga University suppressing free speech over a t-shirt. About 12 to 14 months ago the same administration attempted to reject the

The president can fix our health care problem. Just put us all on Medicare and the problem would be over. The IRS knows who and where we are because it's all in the tax rolls.