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This story is developing. Update 5/9/26: Scroll down for more links. Update 5/8/26: The denials have begun on Facebook. Read the documents for yourself people. Of course, they will deny it. ***** Go to the St. Maries Gazette-Record website for this letter posted to the Opinion page: https://www.gazetterecord.com/opinion/article_075ed09c-e101-4bc6-b924-de3c1f2b46f6.html or see below: Go here for the Read more

Below is another Letter posted to the St. Maries Gazette-Record, published 4/15/26: Well, it looks like we will be getting two new county commissioners. The commissioners run the rural areas of the county, but the city folk get to vote for them too, which means that they outvote the country folk in every election. Country Read more

The courts and our elected officials continue to indulge tribal governments in their persistent quest for more government hand-outs, monopolies, and preferential treatment. This impulse is based upon a long-period of Humanist indoctrination in which it is believed that the White man is the real savage, and the Indian is a weak and oppressed minority. Read more

Pay attention local code enforcers. You are driving Benewah County into bankruptcy. Read more

As featured in The McCroskey Agrarian #23, a brief history of Virgil T. McCroskey and the story of our two area state parks: Steptoe Butte and Mary Minerva McCroskey State Park: Giver of Mountains JWS, 3/24/26 Read more

Better pay attention. Just because you don’t see a uniformed soldier with an M16 on your street corner doesn’t mean you are not living in a police state. In this story, code enforcers for Ada County (Boise) require a permit for you to target practice on your land. Is this a part of the Governor’s Read more

I’m offering some “shake your head” examples of code enforcers doing what they do. The victims in these stories were lucky: they either had a lawyer or a sympathetic judge. It would be better for there not to be code enforcers in the first place. We need to go back to the tried and true Read more

A follow-up on our article on “Communitarianism” with the promised podcast. See here: https://www.bitchute.com/video/ibK5kA0b2zv0 More on how zoning is being used to “zone out” farming: Taking Idaho farms and ranches: Read more

Roadside sign on the Dawes Act: https://savebenewahcounty.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image000000033.jpg Roadside sign on the DeSmet Mission: https://savebenewahcounty.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/image000000035.jpg Email me at [email protected] with your comments. We will keep them confidential. Go to Issue #22 of the McCroskey Agrarian for our thoughts. We will post updates. — JWS, 3/3/26 Read more

On the price of silver and what that might mean for Benewah County, go to the latest issue of The McCroskey Agrarian, Issue #21. Updates on the County 2024 CAFR and unsettling cultural developments on the “Westside” can be found as well. JWS, 1/31/26 Roadside sign on the Dawes Act: https://savebenewahcounty.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image000000033.jpg Roadside sign on Desmet: Read more