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Lou Landry and Rabbi Daniel B. Fink: Apologize to victim and take steps to prevent torture
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel has said, “Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.” How does the suffering of one man, ...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the Editor: 05-27-2012
The Statesman’s “Our View” May 20 is another example of it joining mainstream media’s fawning allegiance to the Obama reelection campaign.
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EDITORIALS
Letters to the Editor: 05-26-2012
As volunteer coordinator for The Idaho Foodbank, I have an almost daily opportunity to witness the caring and compassion of Idahoans toward each other.
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READER'S OPINION
Niels S. Nokkentved: Timber industry still telling spotted owl lie
I recently read again, a reporter glibly pass off as fact that environmentalists had shut down the timber industry in the Northwest in the early 1990s.
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OPINION
Dana Millbank: ‘Secret Circus’ chief seems in denial
The Secret Circus may soon be looking for a new ringmaster.
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READER'S OPINION
Jody May-Chang: Romney backer Frank VanderSloot's anti-gay record is fair game
This paper dedicated a large portion of its front page feeding the allegation by Frank VanderSloot that he is a victim of an alleged smear campaign backed by President Obama. The May 18 article, “Idaho businessman VanderSloot says Obama is smearing him,” by Sean Cockerham, lacked balance...
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Letters to the editor: 05-25-2012
In the 1970s, there were three big car companies in the U.S. not making very good cars and not selling them at a good price. When import cars entered the market, besides having the choice to buy one, it forced the three big U.S. car companies to compete, making better cars for a better price.
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READER'S OPINION
Reader's View, nuclear waste: Waste can’t come to state; our valuable agreement must be protected
Idaho’s Nuclear Waste Agreement with the federal government is an invaluable asset. I negotiated it after the U.S. Navy insisted that its shipments of spent nuclear waste to the INL could no longer be jeopardized.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the editor-05-24-2012
I am a 71-year-old native-born Idahoan. I’ve been voting for over 50 years. I voted in Idaho’s primary and was outraged by the process changes forced by the Republicans.
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EDITORIALS
Reader's View, nuclear waste: Idaho will not become dumping ground; INL directive has other goals
Two decades ago, Gov. Cecil Andrus took on the federal government, rallying Idaho’s citizens to the cause of protecting the vitally important Snake River Plain Aquifer a sole source of water for hundreds of thousands of our citizens and an indispensible foundation of our economy.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the editor-05-23-2012
Well, I see the narrow-minded Mike Moyle and Lawerence Denney are at it again. Moyle, if you can't stand the the heat, then get out of the kitchen. You both are vindictive little people. If you believe Denney, that he didn’t know where the money was going, then I have some oceanfront property...






