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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has a dangerous new rule beginning Oct. 22 that will threaten the healthcare of millions of Americans. The rule, “Indefinite Suspension of the De Minimis Exemption for Mail Shipments,” will effectively end Americans’ ability to personally import their prescription medicines. Importing prescription drugs from licensed international pharmacies is the only lifeline for seniors on limited incomes, people with high-deductible health plans, and the uninsured. That’s why CBP and the FDA have allowed it for dec...
What are they running on to help you? Well, what they are running on is as follows. Abolish prisons, abolish police, abolish President, abolish Senate, they want 13 to 17 Supreme court justices, congress to appoint president, eliminate the department of war, open the borders like what President Biden did, no one knows how many illegals entered the United States some estimates and 10 million, 15 million, 20 million. Expand full voting rights for all non-citizens and people convicted of criminal confections, abolish ICE, cut the federal military...
Perhaps worst of Michael Baumgartner’s habitual votes contradicting his policy statements is his continually advocating for slashing federal spending but then voting for One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB). This added $4.1 trillion to the national debt which has doubled to $40 trillion since 2017, the beginning of President Donald Trump’s first term. The Baumgartner-supported Iran war costing over $75 billion and counting is another example raising the debt. Deceit-prone Baumgartner could have killed OBBB because it passed the House by just one vot...
In 1975, Central Washington University (CWU) President, Dr. Jim Brooke, proposed a simple idea: create a week-long summer camp at CWU to introduce high school students to the nation’s free-enterprise system while rubbing shoulders with leaders who own and run businesses. Brooke’s team developed a computer simulation---the operating system for Business Week. It became the blueprint for a start-up business which would be educational, bonding and fun. It worked like “magic!” Students came from different backgrounds and became ferocious competi...
October 10, 1973, Spiro Agnew resigned from his position as Vice President of the United States. That same day, he plead no contest to charges of federal income tax evasion in exchange for charges of political corruption being dropped. He was fined ten thousand dollars and sentenced to three years’ probation and was disbarred. Agnew was the second Vice President in history to resign from the office, the first was John Calhoun. Agnew was Vice President under Richard Nixon. The United States Department of Justice had uncovered widespread evidence...
Publication Title - The Star. Publication No. 518-860. Filing Date – October 8, 2025. Issue Frequency - Weekly. Number of Issues Published Annually - 52. Annual Subscription Price - $38.00/$48.00/$62.00/$52.00. Contact Person: Scott or Gwen. Telephone: (509) 633-1350. Complete Mailing Address of Known Office of Publication and Headquarters - #3 Midway Ave., P.O. Box 150, Grand Coulee, Grant County, Wash. 99133-0150. Publisher/Editor/Managing Editor - Scott Hunter, P.O. Box 150, Grand Coulee, WA 99133-0150. Owners - Star Publishing Inc., P.O. B...
Hopefully, the justices of the Washington State Supreme Court came to our community to learn a thing or two, because they probably did, whether they realize it or not. It’s the kind of knowledge that sneaks into your mind quietly, the kind that lets you look back on your former self and realize what has changed in you, that somehow the formerly obvious truth has slipped away in humble retreat before a rising inspiration that is just as true. Those nine already very wise men and women may someday look back to a conversation they had with a d...
Health from the point of view of the healer means not only health in the physical today, but also balance and harmony in all parts of life. The process of healing is really a process of remembering who you are. To remember who you are means (results in?) rediscovering your path. “Health” is an abstractly pliable concept. It may be defined merely as the absence of disease and disability. Or it may be given a much more positive meaning such as in The WHO Constitution. The WHO definition is: Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and soc...
Well, well, well, what are those Democrats up to now? They have total endorsement of The Democratic Socialist Party of America to join their cause. What? Really? Naw, it can’t be. The Dem Party of FDR, JFK, and Bill Clinton is no more. Gone … Now it is the party of AOC, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. After years of brutal fighting to keep them out of America, the Dems now have placed them on your ballots. Any vote for a Democrat in any capacity at any level is your sign of acceptance and approval. Now is the time to think “Is my hatre...
In my area on Pearl Avenue, kindness is present and well. Last week I wrote how kind Denise Anderson is. This week I am writing about Dorothy Stiegelmyer who lives next door to me. I totally appreciate their acts of kindness. My wife, when still living, used to wake up and put out our garbage cans. Now that she is gone, I notice Dorothy S. doing it. Dorothy is always fixing cookies or something tasty and bringing it over. Thanks Dorothy. I’ve asked her to knock and then announce her presence so I don’t have to get up from my chair. Dorothy is...
I spent nearly 30 years as a nurse, including in an infectious disease clinic, before I stepped away, worn down by the relentless work. But when COVID swept the nation, I came back to help my fellow Seattleites, and I had rarely been prouder. Then, in July 2023, the virus I returned to fight caught me too. I was a runner and a hiker, healthy my whole adult life. I did everything I knew to do, and it disabled me anyway. I have Long COVID that developed into myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a serious, multisystem neuro...
We’re entering a new world of cyberattacks, and Washington isn’t ready. In August, an OpenAI model still in the cybersecurity testing phase “broke out” of its highly controlled testing environment and hacked into the production infrastructure of the well-known AI company Hugging Face. Hugging Face immediately discerned that this was driven by an AI agent because of its pace and sophistication, and they used an open-source Chinese model to quell the threat. Five days later, OpenAI confessed that their model had done the hacking over the course...
The Federal Mid-Term elections are to be held on Nov. 3rd. There are 425 seats in the House of Representatives up for election. In the Senate, there are 33 seats to be challenged and two seats up for special election. Also, there are 36 governor elections. Nationally, there are many ways for us citizens to cast our vote. Early in-person voting, vote by mail, which includes Absentee Voting, and vote in-person on election day. Here in Washington state, vote by mail was established by the state...
It’s about what kind of a country we want. Which helps determine what kind of world we want. After WWII, following much heartbreak and destruction, our government used the Marshall Plan to help rebuild not only bricks and mortar, but also human relationships. What we did engendered good feeling and kindness in response from many. This is distinctly missing under our current President and reigning Congress. It can be demonstrated by the early take-down of USAID letters and mission. Wednesday night Spokane heard Rep. Baumgartner and opposing c...
My neighbor, Denise Anderson, is The Dahlia Lady. Each fall my house is filled with dahlias. She has raised the most beautiful dahlias. And lucky me. I get most of them. I have three bouquets right now. I get them because her husband Howard is allergic to them. Sorry Howard, but you are missing out. Denise raises a wide variety of dahlias. Some are gigantic. If you remember the late Dick Taylor, he was a cross-stitch champion if there was such a thing. He learned that I liked dahlias and did a cross-stitch dahlia for me. For many years, I hung...
Sinclair Lewis deserves a prize for prescience. Ninety years ago, the author of “It Can’t Happen Here” created a presidential candidate named Buzz Windrip who rose to power with an openly demagogic agenda. Buzz believed nonstop lying was the best way to connect with voters (“it is not fair to ordinary folks – it just confuses them – to try to make them swallow all the true facts”). He played them for suckers, and won. He told them “lowdown crooks, liars, and schemers” were trying to rig the election against him, that dishonest reporters were pl...
September 22, 1791, Michael Faraday was born in London, England. Born in a poor family, Faraday received little formal education. He was an apprentice at a bookbindery in London. He took advantage of the many books passing through the bindery, reading many of them. Science books caught his attention and he pursued an interest in science. He attended many lectures at the City Philosophical Society, including lectures by Sir Humphry Davy of the Royal Institution. Faraday set a goal to one day work with Davy and he eventually did. Faraday slowly...
America’s collective understanding of itself was mortally injured 25 years ago. What we feel about our nation now, what we live every day breathing about it, is not what it was before September 11, 2001. In the long run, that’s at least as tragic as the thousands of Americans killed when two airliners were turned into giant, flying weapons aimed at the edifices that housed the literal and figurative powers of capitalism and U.S. military might — the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Much more than physical structures started careening downw...
Not that Don McLean asked me, but I was born too late to “recall what was revealed the day the music died.” The terrorist plane crashes of September 11, 2001, though? Those I remember. And how they revealed the paired vulnerability and tenacity of a nation. In fact, on the 20th anniversary of the tragedy, I shared personal details of that day with my readers. And just like that, another five years’ worth of survivors, first responders and witnesses have passed away. Since the 20th anniv...
If you hear something rumbling, it’s the sound of Theodore Roosevelt turning over in his grave. And Abraham Lincoln. And Benjamin Harrison. And Franklin D. Roosevelt. And Richard Nixon. And Jimmy Carter. Barack Obama and Joe Biden aren’t dead yet, but if they were, they’d be turning over in their graves. They are among the presidents who worked hard to protect the environment, forests, oceans, air, endangered species, national parks and wildlife refuges. All that is threatened by Donald Trump, who is waging war not only on the envir...
September 10, 1960, the Organization of the Petroleum Countries (OPEC) was formed as a permanent intergovernmental organization. The four-day meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, involved the five founding members, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. Over the years several other nations joined OPEC. For the first five years, OPEC had its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1965, it moved to Vienna, Austria. According to the Office of the Historian, United States Department of State, at the time of OPEC formation in 1960, “The policy of t...
I sympathize with both the impatience and irritation for the drivers of the bridge. In fact, I experience these thoughts daily from 90 miles away. The lucky thing for you is that it’s temporary. At the same time, your problem never had to be a problem. There is no defendable reason that an alternate route over the top of the dam couldn’t have been provided by the Bureau of Reclamation. I’m certain they developed their security reasoning in a brainstorming session titled ‘What excuses can we use to keep people off the roadway over the dam?’ I...
Mr. Luther, you must watch too much CNN or MSNOW. The Great Big Beautiful Bill gave Americans the largest tax cut in US history. No tax on overtime, no tax on tips, no tax on our Social Security. So, Norm that didn’t help you? Reducing regulations for the construction of large manufacturing facilities has enabled approximately $18 billion in new manufacturing investments across the United States, for medication manufacturing, auto manufacturing instead of importing from foreign countries. Stopping the 5 million illegals coming into the US e...
September 6, 1860, Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois. She graduated from the Rockford Female Seminary in 1881. She started at the Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia though she had to dropped out due to poor health. After she regained her strength, she toured Europe where she was inspired to work in social reform. Jane discovered the Toynbee Hall in London, and saw how it tackled the many problems of urban poverty, providing social services and community enrichment for residents of London’s industrial district. In 1889, Add...
If you’re like me, the larger-than-life Dolly Parton has intersected numerous phases of your story. My awareness of Dolly goes back nearly 60 years. Nashville’s WSM-TV (now WSMV-TV) carried “The Porter Wagoner Show” (on which Dolly performed from 1967-1974) as part of its Saturday afternoon lineup of syndicated country music shows. (I was born a wee bit too late and too far to the west to see Dolly’s debut at age 10 on grocer Cas Walker’s Knoxville-area “Farm and Home Hour,” but I did shop at a...