Private Property or Not?
I agree with the new wording of House bill #127 . The word change is “may” from “shall”.  It would read ‘Every county may exercise the powers conferred by this chapter pursuant to section 67-6502, Idaho Code’.   
Private property isn’t private property unless the owner has the right and the control of his or her property.  As I’ve saved money, I have been building a shop so our family could have a bathroom and heat.  
Building “codes” and inspectors, as part of their job, have notified me of a few changes ‘not up to code’ even though nothing I did hurt or would hurt anyone, except the manufacturers who I didn’t support.  One even said ‘I don’t know why, but it’s the code and this part you are required to have is more expensive’.  Inspectors/agencies controlling my property means it’s really not my property.  It’s a great gig, they don’t have to do the physical work or pay for it.  I do.  The argument is “safety” but in too many circumstances no one has been injured, laws of Mother Nature haven’t been violated.  Changing the word from “shall” to “may” is a step in the right direction. 
Finally, I tire living under philanthropic tyranny of “planning”.  In the name of safety, literacy, compassion, health, wages, employment, environment, “free credit”, “tax breaks”, “bail outs”, and so on, philanthropic tyranny is created and justified via codes/laws, and we as citizens are required to financially support it. (They don’t survive on donations).  This isn’t a harsh judgment, but an observation as nothing enters the public treasury for a program to benefit one citizen without forcefully taking by law from another citizen.   Without the aid of law, without the subsidies of law, without the wording of ‘shall’ (as in above example), these State “charities”, their authority, and (un)intended consequences of their tyranny would fade.  
Scott Perrin
Cottonwood, Idaho

Redneck Review!
No. 200 - 2/25/2019
Wow!  RNR article #200!  That means articles every week since April 23rd, 2015! All with the intent of passing on to readers information used in teaching high school over the past 50 plus years in this area.  Information used to pass on to the best students from the best families a teacher could ever expect to have!
The last sentence may sound like an unsupported "brag" but evidence exists to support it! The first bit of evidence comes from other teachers who have been employed elsewhere. Conditions described and the stories they have told provide the first bit of evidence that the sentence above is true! Other evidence comes also from friends who taught here for a time, then moved on to teach elsewhere!  To be honest, never has it been heard by myself that the local area was not the best! The kids are the best, local families are the best in raising children willing to work hard and who leave school with a reputation giving an advantage in the world of work and in future education efforts!
A second source of evidence comes from employers and colleges outside the area.  Many times we hear of stories of Prairie grads who were given scholarships or were employed over others just because they came from here!  The outside world has come to know that the typical grad here is willing to work hard, can be depended on to stay on the job, is honest, and can be trusted to do what is asked!  This reputation is a tribute to the local families who 
send their children to school here and who are a big reason for the continuing reputation!
Quickly it is admitted that my presence and my family's presence here is accidental, and did happen more by chance than design.  My first job here as a math and history teacher at now closed St. Gertrude's Academy came as a surprise!  My ed class at Carroll College, Montana required that the principal from a former high school be asked for a recommendation to be used in job searches. I did, and by chance, was offered a position back at my old alma mater! I took it as the path of least resistance, saving me the task of writing several Montana schools!
Some half dozen years teaching math and social studies at SGA, the principal at the brand new Bishop Kelly high school in Boise offered me the same position there, which at the time I accepted because of a need to get additional education in math, My Carroll math was minor only, and changes had taken place requiring all older math people to upgrade to the "New Math" at the time.  However, having applied for over three years to dozens of schools to get
an NSF (National Science Foundation) grant in math, my good fortune offered me an entire year at San Jose State in California, and four summers at Reed College in Portland, paid for by a generous NSF grant that exceeded my pay at the time.  Completing the year-long course, I was invited to return to SGA which I did, though an offer had been made by an all-boys very wealthy school near Stanford in California to coach, and teach math there, but came a couple
of weeks late after my excepting the return to my old high school, for the second time! The  result of the San Jose year, and four summers at Reed was a Masters in Math from Reed.
My first love, however, history, government, and economics,  triggered an interest in summer sessions in economics at several locations, in New York, Denver, Colorado, the U. of Idaho, and other places, all of which provided the opportunity to study and absorb the many theories in politics and economics associated with John Maynard Keynes, Ludvig von Mises, and the Austrian School of Economics!  That interest continued after retirement from teaching, and is the reason for the RNR articles which appear here!   (Concluded next week!)
Jake Wren

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