America votes to extend Biden’s inconceivably stupid agenda To the Editor: Here we are again, one more time when America’s democracy and our voting rights, as set forth in our Constitution have been cannibalized. The state of Georgia will need two more months to establish the winner between Herschel Walker and Warnock.
This Thanksgiving, we should all be thankful for community journalism and its deeply embedded roots in McCall. Today’s edition of The Star-News marks the first not shepherded by Tom and Tomi Grote since Feb.
On Nov. 1, McCall’s long independent newspaper, The Star-News, was sold to CherryRoad Media. The edition of The Star-News you are reading today is the first to be produced by CherryRoad, after the former local owners, Tom and Tomi Grote, continued to handle the first few November editions.
I have, for years, enjoyed reading the The Star-News from cover to cover. I’ve always seen it as a quality small-town paper. Until the last issue. Maybe it’s the new owners who have made the decision to include the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s pitchman in their opinion section? (“Idaho should unhitch its wagon from the broken welfare train,” Nov. 10, 2022). In any case, it’s a bad decision.
Valley County is getting a giant slice of pork from the federal government that should be fed directly into improving county roads. That is the biggest bang county residents and property owners can get from the bucks.
Lobbyists from Boise should not get their way on roadless area The French Creek roadless area is slated to be ripped up by ATV and UTV trails. That is the Faustian bargain worked out by what is left of the Payette Roadless Allocation committee that I have served on for about five years.
On Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, the Forest Service announced the release of the Stibnite Gold Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement, which analyzes the Stibnite Gold Project – a proposed open-pit, cyanide vat leach mine in the headwsaters of the East Fork South Fork Salmon River. Following the release of the original analysis in 2020, the Forest Service took the highly unusual step of conducting an SDEIS because the initial mine plan posed too great of a water contamination threat.
It was a very nice gesture last week for the McCall City Council to disband the McCall Environmental Advisory Committee in an attempt to reduce government bureaucracy, but then the council turned right around and established the McCall Area Housing Authority. They may have created a monster.
Voters who go to the polls on Tuesday or who plan to vote early will notice something quite odd on their ballots. It is so strange and distasteful that it should be ignored altogether.
ELECTION 2022 Maupin, Thompson have shown leadership in government posts When I look for candidates who will guide our county, I look for who has been in leadership positions and what experience they have learned. Both current Commissioner Sherry Maupin and candidate Neal Thompson have stepped up and shown their efforts.