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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...
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KEVIN RICHERT
Kevin Richert: From Idaho to D.C.: It isn’t valentine season
The Legislature’s “joint memorials,” nonbinding letters to Congress, do send a message. Sometimes, the message is that our Legislature is populated with yahoos with a tad too much time on their hands.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the editor-02-09-2012
What has happened to the party of Abraham Lincoln? Anyone who thinks the leadership of the Republican Party cares about the best interest of the people hasn’t been paying attention.
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EDITORIALS
Our View, Idaho taxes: A simple majority is good enough
The last time Idaho raised its taxes, in 2003, the measures passed by the same simple majority Idaho uses to elect its legislators. There’s nothing wrong with that.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the editor-02-09-2012
The session has barely begun, and that Rexburg Republican In Name Only, Brent Hill, is already talking about raising taxes. How can he call himself a Republican? Sorry, Brent, but it feels good to hurl a right-wing epithet at someone who may deserve it. Raising one tax to allow a reduction in another...
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EDITORIALS
Our View, public schools spending: A matter of priorities: Pay Idaho teachers
State schools superintendent Tom Luna is an experienced enough politician to try to sidestep a public feud with a fellow Republican, Gov. Butch Otter.
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