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  • More than 450 protest student masking

    Roger Harnack, Franklin Connection|Updated Aug 17, 2021
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    SPANGLE — More than 450 people stood on the Liberty High School baseball field Thursday evening, Aug. 12, singing the National Anthem. A World War II-era P-51 fighter flew overhead, piloted by Jared Segebartt of Moscow, Idaho, as the "Stars and Stripes" waved in the wind. Some in the crowd waved American flags; others hoisted signs demanding the governor rescind his edict requiring public school students to be masked when classes resume in the coming weeks. On the dais, 9th L...

  • Concerns about new long-term care tax

    Sen. Mark Schoesler|Updated Aug 13, 2021

    Mr. Ed Schweitzer, who founded and leads Pullman-based Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, recently pointed out how the new long-term care tax will have an extra-bitter taste for people who call Idaho home but work in our state, in border cities like Clarkston or Pullman. Those include a significant number of SEL's employee-owners, he wrote in a letter to Gov. Inslee, who will be forced to pay the tax but can never benefit from it if they don't reside in Washington. His...

  • WSU ending two vaccine exemptions upon FDA approval

    Roger Harnack, Franklin Connection|Updated Aug 13, 2021

    PULLMAN — Washington State University will cancel any "philosophical" and "personal" Wuhan coronavirus vaccine exemptions for students if the FDA approves of any of the three experimental inoculations currently available in the U.S. Under the new rules emailed to the WSU community Thursday, Aug. 12, students are mostly required to provide proof of vaccination by Sept. 10 to be on any campus, including the main campus in Pullman and the satellite WSU-Tri-Cities campus. University employees — including professors — have until...

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