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EDITORIAL: Trustees push NIC closer to big plunge

| April 24, 2024 1:00 AM

If you’re an attorney and you get a call out of the blue from North Idaho College, you can pretty much go out and buy that new sports car without worrying about making the massive payments.

But let’s aside for a moment the NIC board of trustees’ latest decision to further enrich the legal profession, the men and women with JD after their names who received more than half a million bucks last year — $511,404 — with the spigot still wide open to the tune of $19,511 in February billings.

With loss of accreditation staring straight at trustees Mike Waggoner, Todd Banducci and Greg McKenzie, the board majority probably is correct in finally seeking actual legal expertise. But leave it to those three to do the right thing in such a wrong way that they’re likely hastening the college’s demise rather than averting it.

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