This weekly column features news stories and event announcements from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. We also mention companies of interest to preppers and survivalists that are located in the American Redoubt region. Today, we focus on the continuing disenfranchisement of eastern Oregon’s conservatives by western Oregon’s overbearing Democrat majority. (See the Central & Eastern Oregon section.)
Region-Wide
Biden administration’s deal with Six Sovereigns sparks debate over Lower Snake River Dams.
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Ballotopedia: Greater Idaho, Oregon, countywide ballot measures (2020-2024).
A key detail: The Crook County vote on the proposal will be held on May 21, 2024.
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2024 Pacific Northwest Orienteering Festival. Nine orienteering days in Montana and Eastern Washington, June 21-30, 2024.
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Some fascinating history of the Inland Northwest: The Big Burn — Full Documentary — AMERICAN EXPERIENCE — PBS.
Idaho
Two people from Nampa and one from Boise killed in building collapse.
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Some more details: 3 killed in hangar collapse on grounds of Boise airport, officials say.
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Judge in U of I murders rejects appeal to dismiss indictment, delays ruling on trial start date. JWR’s Comments: 51 terabytes! The pre-trial maneuvering in this case underscores just how complicated the discovery process is, our modern age of Big Data. The mountains of data created by surveillance cameras, automatic license plate readers, social media, and browsing history greatly complicate and add huge expense to pre-trial discovery. This makes obtaining legal counsel costs prohibitive for many defendants and lengthens the delays before anyone can go to trial. Each hour that an attorney or a paralegal spends sifting through voluminous discovery data is a billable hour. The end result: More people now feel obliged to plea bargain, even when they are innocent, especially in Federal court cases. (I doubt that Kohlberger is innocent, but the circumstances of his trial show how the judicial process is changing in this age of Big Data.)
For further reading, there is this from Pew Research: Fewer than 1% of federal criminal defendants were acquitted in 2022.
Montana
Elderly Man Could Die in Prison for What He Allegedly Did After Killing Grizzly Bear.
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Video: I Found A Prehistoric Seabed On Top Of A Mountain! — Montana Rockhounding and Fossil Hunting.
Central & Eastern Oregon
Oregon Supreme Court rules 10 GOP state senators who staged long walkout can’t run for reelection. JWR’s Comments: Western Oregon’s Democrat majority has now reached the stage of a Monolithic Super-Supermajority. Most of those that have been disenfranchised are Republicans from east of the Cascades. (Does this sound familiar?) This is straight out of the 21st-century Democrat playbook: Using legislation and the courts to disqualify your opposition from holding office. (And does this sound familiar, at the national level?) Situations like these — where dissent is quashed and there is no effective mechanism for redress of grievances — give rise to tyrannical regimes, and revolts. Note that one of those now barred from seeking reelection is Dr. Arthur “Art” Robinson of Cave Junction. His name should be familiar to SurvivalBlog readers. Robinson is both an outspoken Global Warming skeptic and a member of the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness group.
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Sisters paramedics ‘won’t ever forget’ delivering baby in back of ambulance.
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Volunteer Winter Raptor Survey tracks High Desert birds of prey.
Central & Eastern Washington
60-Day Extended Weather Forecast for Spokane, Washington.
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Reps. Newhouse & McMorris Rodgers continue support on maintaining Lower Snake River dams.
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Grants to expand EV charging across state include stations from Yakima to Walla Walla.
Wyoming
From the left-of-center Cowboy State Daily: Wyoming GOP Prepares For Divided, And Possibly Expensive, 2024 Elections.
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Bobbi Barrasso dies after two year battle with brain cancer.
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Wyoming to vote in 2024 on amendment concerning residential property taxes.
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