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Our View, University of Idaho: Unneeded help from Statehouse advisers
University of Idaho administrators have a lot to deal with. Or, perhaps, these professional academics really don’t know much about running a university.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the editor-02-14-2012
My point is pretty simple. I am growing frustrated with our state Legislature acting as if they are not accountable to their constituents. I have tried to contact all three of my state representatives since the beginning of the year and none have bothered to respond.
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READER'S OPINION
Reader's View, redistricting: Column misstated a number of points
“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.”
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OPINION
West Views: Bill Sali’s self-serving return to Statehouse politics
There’s an old one-line joke: “In God we trust; all others pay cash.”
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EDITORIALS
Our View: Senate committee's rejection of anti-discrimination bill keeps Idaho on the wrong side of history
A Senate committee's dismissive rejection of an anti-discrimination bill goes beyond shabby. It keeps Idaho on the wrong side of history.
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READER'S OPINION
Gregory Bengtson: Raising tobacco taxes will lower use among youth
February is National Children’s Dental Health Month. As a dentist, I consider the single biggest future threat to the health of Idaho’s children to be tobacco.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the Editor: 02-12-2012
Its time for the lawmakers in this state to quit thinking they are God and judge over the people of Idaho. I am not and never have been a smoker. However, I feel that the smokers, while not doing anything illegal, are being treated like third-class citizens. They cannot go out to eat, go have a ...
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KEVIN RICHERT
Kevin Richert: Otter’s budget priorities don’t include Medicaid
If you believe Gov. Butch Otter, Idaho has ample money to reverse $35 million in Medicaid cuts. So why would Otter rather sock this money into savings?
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the editor-02-11-2012
This is a sincere and heartfelt thank you to the two men in the maroon SUV who turned around on Idaho 21 on Jan. 20 in order to try to track down our husbands. We were two moms, two kids and two dogs stranded by the side of the road when we realized that the snow was too deep to snowshoe into the...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the editor-02-10-2012
Let me get this straight. The GOP sues the overwhelmingly GOP Idaho government over its closed GOP primary. The GOP wins and the GOP Legislature awards its GOP lawyer $100,000 in taxpayer money. Then the GOP secretary of state wants another $200,000 in taxpayer money to educate the GOP voters in...






