[Vision2020] Why wait for the Daily News?

[Joan Opyr]

For those of you who don't subscribe to the Daily News, here's my 
latest contribution to the letters to the editor:

In a recent opinion piece, Steve McClure wrote that "[w]hile the 
attendant language of the measure before the [Moscow City Council] will 
be thick with definitions and legalese, the crux of the debate is over 
the presence of New Saint Andrews College downtown and the alternative 
high school on South Main Street.  Neither entity should be evicted 
from the locations they occupy, and the council should vote 
accordingly.  To cast a vote in the other direction means members of 
the council have allowed the city’s zoning code to be hijacked by those 
seeking to debate religion or politics, or those who are trying to make 
a political point."

I have to wonder: is this man really speaking for the whole of the 
editorial board?  Are Virginia Henderson, Murf Raquet, and the 
newspaper's owner, Nathan Alford, Jr., as blind to the simple facts of 
this case as is perpetual Christ Church apologist Steve McClure?

First, the Palouse Regional High School is located in the Motor 
Business District, not the Central Business District.  It is not 
analogous to New St. Andrews College, the zoning cases are not 
parallel.  New St. Andrews' immature trouble-makers, Nathan Wilson and 
Aaron Rench, filed a retaliatory, malicious and frivolous zoning 
complaint against the alternative high school for no other reason than 
to muddy the waters and cause the Moscow Public School District, which 
they have long denigrated, as much financial and legal difficulty as 
possible.  It's the sort of cheesy, sleazy behavior we've come to 
expect from Doug Wilson and Associates.  No one should be surprised, 
but neither should anyone fall for this nonsense.

Second, there is not one Christ Church-affiliated school located in the 
Central Business District; there are three.  There is New St. Andrews 
College in the Skattaboe Building, and Atlas School and a girls' Latin 
school located in the old Nu-Art.  The latter are operated by Christ 
Church member Toby Sumpter in direct violation of city order and city 
ordinance.  This is an old and tired pattern of Wilson and his 
followers; ignore the law, flout the rules, and when you're called on 
it, cry religious persecution.

Enough is enough.  No school of any kind is allowed in the Central 
Business District, not New St. Andrews, not the University of Idaho, 
and certainly not two dangerous and illegal childrens' schools on the 
second-floor of an old movie theater.  Can you say firetrap?  It's time 
for the Moscow City Council to quit pussy-footing around and do its 
job.  Contrary to Steve McClure's misleading and disingenuous 
meanderings, it is time to protect the Central Business District by 
enforcing existing city ordinance.  It is time to call in the moving 
vans.

Joan Opyr
1738 Genesee Troy Road
Moscow, ID 83843
Tel (208) 882-8085

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