Our local newspaper

[Don Coombs <dcoombs@uidaho.edu>]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Duncan Palmatier wrote:

> Dear Vision2020:
> 
> The Spokesman's Highway 95 article was a splendid piece of journalism,
> presenting the tragedy of 35 lost lives, each one individually recalled,
> with the safety and political issues explained.
> 
> I wish The Idahonian, under the leadership of the new editor, would wake
> up and start some real reporting on local issues, such as the
> Spokesman's. It seems that our local paper is unable to keep track of
> the local stories: the hospital merger, the Alturas Industrial Park
> scandal, the highway, the 1912 building, and the list goes on. From The
> Idahonian I have not a clue what is happening in our city or county.
> Yet, I notice that the editorials are more strident than ever, some of
> them little more than wild ravings. Where are they getting their facts?
> Or, do they bother?
> 
> Sorry to be so negative; but, I have enjoyed our paper in the past and I
> think it really needs to improve from its present state.
> 
> Duncan Palmatier 
> 
For the benefit of vision2020 participants who have moved to Moscow in the
last few years and don't know what Duncan Palmatier is referring to, the
local paper used to be called the Idahonian. I pay at least as close
attention to the Daily News as D.P. does, and I still refer to it by the
old name now and then.

Don Coombs