A very practical matter

The Colfax School District is seeking voter approval for a bond for improvements and repairs to its school buildings. A long list of needs justify the bond and should justify voter approval. The needs list is extensive and important.

The requested bond is for $18.9 million.

Both Jennings Elementary and Colfax Junior/Senior High School are older buildings and have been in use since the 1950s.

A school building in Pullman, built at virtually the same time as Jennings, was torn down several years ago.

It is said that the building had so deteriorated, basically from deferred maintenance, that the...