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25 May 2021
With over one-third of U.S. states having adopted constitutional carry laws, it seems apropos to point out the Second Amendment was the Founding Fathers’ carry permit.
Which, by the way, is why permitless carry is called constitutional carry, as it is a return to carrying guns for self-defense based on the authority of the Bill of Rights rather than the possession of government-issued permit.
After all, those first ten amendments in the Bill of Rights protect natural rights the Founding Fathers purposely kept from being under the government’s purview. Freedom of speech, religion, and assembly, all protected by the First Amendment, and the right to keep and bear arms, protected by the Second, private property and security in our “persons, houses, papers, and effects,” protected by the Third and Fourth Amendments, and so on.
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-Virginia Thomas Scott Fischer has spent nearly 40 years of his 45-year career working at Coeur d’Alene-based Architects West Inc. In that time, he’s been involved with dozens of projects in North Idaho and Eastern Washington and rose to become president of the company’s board of directors. Now, Fischer is downsizing his responsibilities as he moves toward retirement within the next couple of years. As of May 2, Fischer, age 66, is working at Architects West part time. Fischer, the child of an Air Force sergeant, was born in Alaska before moving around the country as his father’s career dictated. In 1967, Fischer’s family moved to Coeur d’Alene. Except for the years he spent earning his architecture degree at the University of Idaho, he’s never left.
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Bond issues and school levies in Kootenai and Bonner counties were winning after early vote counts on Tuesday.
In Kootenai County, 78% of voters said yes [as of Tuesday, 10:30 pm] to a measure that would allow the county fire district to expand to accommodate growth in the county, says Fire Chief Christopher Way.
“They understand the challenges we’re facing, that we’re no longer the same fire district that we were 10 or 20 years ago. We haven’t built a new fire station since 1999. Everybody clearly understands our community is nothing like it was in 1999, he said.
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School levies in Kootenai and Bonner counties were winning after final vote counts on Tuesday.
In the case of the two school levies, what a difference two months makes.
In March, the Post Falls school levy fell just short of a majority. On Tuesday, it won almost 53% of the vote.
The two-year property tax measure would collect nearly $5 million from voters each of the next two years to supplement state education funding. District officials say the levy would provide about seven-and-a-half percent of their budget.
In the West Bonner County School District, based in Priest River, the second-chance levy had collected nearly 52% of the vote, up from about 46% in March. The levy will raise about $3.4 million from taxpayers each of the next two years. District officials say the rate will stay the same as it has been during the current levy that expires at the end of June.