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Our View, the 2012 primary: Remember when elections were easy?
Call it human nature, but you never know what you had until it’s gone. So today, we mourn something that formally vanished from the Idaho political landscape Tuesday for this year, and perhaps for good. A primary election that actually worked for voters.
Opinion
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the editor-05-16-2012
Regardless of how you feel about the individual insurance mandate in the Affordable Care Act, there are a lot of great things it will do for women’s health in Idaho.
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ELECTION ENDORSEMENTS
Our View, primary elections: Do your homework, then have your say
For election 2012, the rules have changed. Study up before you head to the polls.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the editor-05-15-2012
As a retired teacher, mother and grandmother of students in Idaho’s public schools, I was appalled at Senate Education Committee Chairman John Goedde’s statement that “throwing money at the public schools does not result in better education.” Does he really believe that...
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OPINION
West Views: Does the region have a third option on fish vs. dams?
U.S. District Judge James Redden caused a lot of sparks when he endorsed breaching the four lower Snake River dams in order to preserve salmon and steelhead runs.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the editor: 05-14-2012
I have been following the news story about The Baby Place in Meridian and the three infant deaths that occurred in the past few years.
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EDITORIALS
Our View: A careful-what-you-wish-for closed primary?
On Tuesday, Idaho Republican purists might get exactly what they wanted: an election geared to root out the GOP’s moderate and moderating elements.
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READER'S OPINION
Ingrid Brudenell: Updating toxic chemical rules would go far toward preventing illnesses
In a recent opinion column, Cal Thomas wrote about the needed focus on “cures in the health care debate.” He asks for political leaders to set aside polarized views and work together with medical forces to “find cures” or primary prevention of diseases and conditions. ...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the Editor: 05-13-2012
I need a job. So, in this ostensibly improving economy, what’s the problem?
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OPINION
Kevin Richert: The closed primary, and the money-go-round
Why are legislators and PACs pouring so much money into legislative races? Perhaps because they sense opportunity and peril in Tuesday’s closed GOP primaries.






