Press: NIC Sticks It To Taxpayers

You then received another kick to the gut when you opened your Press on Friday and saw the front page story telling you that North Idaho College is raising its share of your property taxes by 3 percent. No big deal? Well, you thought about it and you remembered that NIC raised its portion of property taxes this time last year, then tacked on an additional $2.5 million in previously uncollected property taxes so it could purchase property, and now the college is taking another 3 percent property tax increase on top of that. For roughly one 12-month period, that’s a lot of additional dollars you’re being forced to pay your community college/ Coeur d’Alene Press editorial . More here .

Question: I view this as another slap at North Idaho College — and, by extension, the Education Corridor — by an attack dog for Duane Hagadone. How do you view it?