Radio station silences 'The Voice'

SANDPOINT — A longtime broadcaster has been silenced after hosting a radio show featuring a spokeswoman for a group trying to halt the relocation of an asphalt batch plant to a gravel pit in Sagle.

Bill Litsinger, host of "The Voice" on KSPT/KBFI, learned last month he would no longer be hosting his weekly Blue Sky Broadcasting program after a realty firm reportedly threatened to pull all of its advertising after an Aug. 11 interview of Johnna Plante, the spokeswoman for Citizens Against Frank Linscott and Interstate Concrete & Asphalt, which obtained permit approval to relocate its plant from Sandpoint to Sagle.

Plante outlined the group's efforts halt the relocation plan and its arguments that the surface mine on the west side of U.S. Highway 95 is being operated illegally and that commissioners should not have approved the relocation project.

Litsinger repeatedly questioned whether the county commission and plant supporters were in cahoots, although Plante sidestepped those questions.

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