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County Saves Pre-Nazi Swastika Tiles

ORG XMIT: IDIDF102 A tile design featuring a swastika is shown on the floor of the Bonneville County Courthouse in Idaho Falls, Idaho, on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. The tile floor was installed in 1921, more than a decade before Adolf Hitler took power in Germany and adopted the swastika as the Nazi symbol. (AP Photo/Post Register, Monte LaOrange) (Monte Laorange / The Spokesman-Review)
ORG XMIT: IDIDF102 A tile design featuring a swastika is shown on the floor of the Bonneville County Courthouse in Idaho Falls, Idaho, on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. The tile floor was installed in 1921, more than a decade before Adolf Hitler took power in Germany and adopted the swastika as the Nazi symbol. (AP Photo/Post Register, Monte LaOrange) (Monte Laorange / The Spokesman-Review)

A tile design featuring a swastika is shown on the floor of the Bonneville County Courthouse in Idaho Falls on Thursday. The tile floor was installed in 1921, more than a decade before Adolf Hitler took power in Germany and adopted the swastika as the Nazi symbol. Story here. (AP Photo/Post Register, Monte LaOrange)

Question: Did Bonneville County commissioners make the right call?

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D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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