Author: JWS
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If the Sheriff had Emergency Powers . . .
If the Sheriff had the same Emergency Powers as the Fire Marshal: https://savebenewahcounty.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ifthesheriff.webp Removing a hazard to public safety. Read more
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Where Does Idaho Get These People?
[The following Letter to the Editor is as it appeared in the January 31, 2024 edition of the Gazette-Record] In the lengthening line of government officials who want to be our dictators such as what we endured from the czars of the pandemic, now add to the list the State Fire Marshal who, in the… Read more
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New Titles
Check here for additions to the title list. For Jo Hindman’s classic, The Metrocrats (1977) on this website, go here: For a more recent book by Steven Greenhut (2004) on the evils of Zoning and Government mandated building codes, go here: And other titles: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Steven-Greenhut/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ASteven+Greenhut For the author’s review of his book go here: Update… Read more
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Inaugural Post
Welcome to Save Benewah County. Benewah County lies within the Panhandle of Idaho. The western half is the home of the Tribe of the Coeur d’ Alene. The eastern half consists of the City of St. Maries, communities nestled in the national forests and outlying homesteads of sturdy American pioneers. Much of the western half… Read more
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Stivers: protest to zoning plan fell on deaf ears
Letter to the Editor (published in the Gazette-Record, December 20, 2023): It might come as some surprise to many Benewah County voters to discover that their protestations of a county zoning plan in the spring of 2014 fell on deaf ears. All this time, the County Commissioners have been implementing the plan piecemeal by stealth.… Read more