[Vision2020] Whoops-a-daisy. Correction . . .

[Joan Opyr]

Well, I can eat again, and I'm standing upright, but I'm still not 
100%.  I've just sent the following corrected version of my letter to 
Murf Raquet, as I wasn't as clear as I should have been -- and would 
have been, were I not milking this gallbladder business for all its 
worth!  For the interested -- and the nit-picky -- please consider the 
following the definitive version of my diatribe against the Daily News' 
Steve McClure.

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com

PS: Speaking of standing up, Donovan, I am sorry to have to say this, 
but a career in comedy is not for you.  Leave the one-liners to the 
experts.  Johnny Carson.  Jackie Mason.  Henny Youngman.  "Take 
Donovan, please!"

PPS: To all of you who have sent get well wishes, thank you.  I am 
getting well, which means I'm getting ornery.  Oh, boy!  Better hide 
those custard pies -- my throwing arm is starting to twitch!  I think I 
might start tomorrow night at the City Council meeting.

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 Neighborhood 
Business District, not the Central Business District.  It is not 
analogous to New St. Andrews College, and 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 non-commercial educational institution 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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