Taxing Just To Tax
Valley County can't bring itself, yet, to ask The Big Question about Tamarack's financing plan. The hospital districts in McCall and Cascade reveal their indifference to accountability.
Letters to the Valley County Electorate
From the author of 40 years of April Fool's Day gags in The Star-News, comes a series of mini-civics lessons emphasizing good humor, alternative thinking and the lessons of history.
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Are You The "Right Tourist"?
In 2024, the digital world was invited to make The McCall Promise. Only 608 did. One can only imagine what the multitude who opted out thought.
Tamarack's Proposed Banker: The Public
Valley County is considering moving beyond approving development into financing it
We Declare!
Happy 4th! The results of a recent national poll got us thinking about God, country and a nasty vermin named Orthodoxy with rapacious breeding habits
Solar Second Class Citizens
Valley County's incoherence on solar power makes a couple wish they'd never tried alternative energy
Official Wisdom
Three local public agencies recently revealed three completely different attitudes about citizen involvement
Cascade Medical Center Packets
Until the CMC board quits playing games with its public, we will post their monthly meeting packets here.
All Shook Up
It seems like affronts to public process can't even take a break for our election posts. So here are some that piled up while were otherwise occupied + more thoughts on McCity's water bond
Follow The Money
America isn't immune to this age-old reality, and neither is Valley County. Politics and money are as inseparable as Yin and Yang, even close to home
The County Commission Drinking Game
We challenge readers to sort through the BS in the Republican primary races for Valley County Commission + McCall water bond