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Shawn Vestal: At the Supreme Court, the justices use the right word for torture

Sun., Oct. 17, 2021

When Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett referred last week to the actions devised and implemented by Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell on one of the most well-known of the long-term detainees in the War on Terror, she used a clear, simple, accurate word.

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Shawn Vestal: Kootenai County GOP gives thumbs-up to anti-Semitic carpetbagger

Fri., Oct. 15, 2021

What do you do when you hear that a dude who’s running for school board once claimed that it was a “mistake” to give women the right to vote or that women should not be allowed on social media?

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Shawn Vestal: In age of bully politics, school officials bear brunt of rage

Wed., Oct. 13, 2021

Debbie Long has been on the Central Valley School Board for 18 years.

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Shawn Vestal: Mayor’s new shelter budget is a just one step, but it’s promising

Sun., Oct. 10, 2021

The good news is that Mayor Nadine Woodward has proposed building a new emergency shelter to address the number of people living on the streets and the possibility that an already-dire problem could worsen.

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Shawn Vestal: Million-dollar salary for WSU’s Schulz not what it seems

Fri., Oct. 8, 2021

In a time of financial sacrifice and falling enrollments, the latest news about Washington State University President Kirk Schulz was bound to turn heads.

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Shawn Vestal: We shouldn’t need mandates, but we do — vaccines are how we put out this fire

Wed., Oct. 6, 2021

Maybe public safety just isn’t their thing.

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Shawn Vestal: The surge of ‘mini-insurrections’ reflects evolving pandemic extremism

Sun., Oct. 3, 2021

The images from the anti-mask demonstration run amok last week in Coeur d’Alene were too familiar for comfort.

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Shawn Vestal: The Greyhound sweeps will end — three years after the strong mayor let them go on

UPDATED: Sat., Oct. 2, 2021

The end of discriminatory fishing expeditions at the bus station is good news if you like civil liberties – though, frankly, if you like civil liberties you’re also wondering what in the world took so long.

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Shawn Vestal: Redoubt realtor wants only right kind of buyers

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 30, 2021

The dream of an exclusionary homeland for the far right in the Inland Northwest has had a long and sordid history.

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