Even in distant Cheney, we run for Boston

Cheney High School student-athletes, juniors Mariah Brenton and Amanda Lomax had a very simple reason for organizing Sunday’s fundraiser to help victims of the Boston Marathon bombings.

“We just want to let them know that Cheney was supporting them,” Lomax said.

It’s a sentiment no doubt echoed hundreds of times throughout this country from countless people who made donations and set up fundraisers to provide relief to those impacted by the April 15 terrorist attack that left three dead and injured more than 260 others.

Somehow, it doesn’t seem to be a sentiment making any headway towards thos...