Opinion

“Your actions speak louder than your words” was a familiar phrase from my mother when I was 12 years old. I earned this retort after having said one thing and then doing something else.

Recently the state of Georgia enacted sweeping voting restrictions. The legislation criminalizes photographing your own ballet, and giving people food and water while they wait in line to vote. It restricts the number of absentee ballot boxes available and the time in which voters can request an absentee ballot, also making the request process more complicated. Many Democrats including President Biden are concerned Democratic voters will be disproportionately restricted by these new voter laws.

Working families in Spokane are getting a rude awakening at the mailbox this tax season: property tax bills. Unfortunately, the worst is yet to come.

What if - after every instance of a driver plowing into a crowd, killing people - lawmakers called for restrictions on car purchases and wanted to outlaw "assault vehicles" (heavy trucks and large sedans)? Perhaps large vehicles should be locked up. Does licensing drivers and vehicles prevent such catastrophes?

First and foremost schools do not need a mascot, period. And all schools, elementary thru college, certainly do not need one that is found offensive by any of the groups of native American tribes.

Regarding the article, “Democrats launch Senate battle for expanding voting rights” (March 25), two phrases jumped out at me.

As a young person in the United States, it can often be overwhelmingly frustrating to feel that we are left to deal with the consequences of our parents’ and grandparents’ actions. Overpopulation and the environmental impacts that come with it have caused many young people to not have children. But what if I told you there was another way we could combat overpopulation?

Politics as well as journalism are full of opportunities to use and be abused by statistics. And so the title of the little orange book caught my eye a few years ago. “How to Lie With Statistics” takes an entertaining approach to the ways and means, then turns serious with advice on spotting statistical fraud.

It is very disturbing to me to see our congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers working with her Republican colleagues to limit citizen access to voting, while at the same time refusing to consider limiting access to guns.

It is elementary that we must learn from our past mistakes, lest we repeat them.

ls it okay to retain the terminology "North Central lndians"? Tradition and heritage are basic fundamentals of any great society. The controversy is whether North Central high school should retain the name North Central lndians. "ls it appropriate or is it not?" seems to be in conflict with that basic concept of tradition and heritage.

I enjoyed reading Rachel Baker's article suggesting the use of the rainy season as an opportunity to educate our youth about the Earth's water cycle. Little is likely known, by children and adults alike, about the tremendously abundant and superbly clean water resource that exists right here below our feet – the Spokane Valley Rathdrum Prairie aquifer.