Re: (Fwd) Re: Daily news

[Don Coombs <dcoombs@uidaho.edu>]

I'd like to thank Judith for sharing this information, and if it doesn't
make a lot of sense to me, it isn't Judith's fault. I would like to point
out, however, that the things Judith says we would learn by coming to the
League of Women Voters' meetings are things which a good local newspaper
would have told us.

As to the League of Women Voters, they have done good work in the past and
in Moscow they seem more-needed now than in the past.

Don H. Coombs

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Judith Brown wrote:

> This is how Roger Kendall  answered the "why" question at the 
> League of Women Voters' noon meeting Wednesday:
> 
> 1) The Alford family took on a certain amount of debt in buying 
> the paper and it will take about 7 years for that debt to be 
> paid off.  After the debt is paid off, the paper will begin 
> building again.  At his age (mid-50s), he didn't consider it 
> wise  professionally to commit himself to a holding 
> pattern for that long.
> 
> 2)  As a single person, he has found it more difficult than he 
> had anticipated to find a satisfying social circle -- people 
> who were both not employed by him and not  wanting something 
> from him -- in this small town.  Often frustrated with his work 
> life, he felt the lack of a satisfying social life all the more.
> 
> In short, time to move on.  League meetings (noon - 1 pm in 
> the Appaloosa Room of the UI Sub) are open to the public and you 
> might be surprised what you can learn there:  just how well are 
> our county commissioners working together?  what's up with the 
> Gritman-Pullman Memorial merger?  is Medicare going to be 
> reformed? ...
> 
> Judy Brown
> Vice President
> League of Women Voters of Moscow
> ------- 
> Forwarded Message Follows -------From:          "Sam I Am" 
> <MoscowSam@moscow.com>
> 
> So WHY is Roger leaving the paper?
> MoscowSam@moscow.com
>