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.
Editorials
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EDITORIALS
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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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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EDITORIALS
West Views: Idaho's closed primary yielded familiar results
Jeers ... to former state Senate Majority Leader Rod Beck, R- Boise. Beck was the loudest voice to push for closing his party’s primary election.
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EDITORIALS
Our View: It’s tough to quietly donate $1 million
Idaho GOP power broker Frank VanderSloot is outraged, maybe even surprised, at the scrutiny surrounding his $1 million contribution to Mitt Romney’s campaign. But why?
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KEVIN RICHERT
Kevin Richert: Primary results don’t justify Democrats’ confidence
State political party chairpersons are supposed to be optimists, and Larry Grant serviceably played the role Tuesday.
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EDITORIALS
Our View, College of Idaho football: C of I has a gameplan, and needs to stick to it
Thirty-seven years is a long time to stay on the sidelines. But in 2014, the College of Idaho hopes to resurrect a football program that has been dormant since 1977.
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KEVIN RICHERT
Kevin Richert: The winners and losers in Tuesday’s elections
Idaho’s first experiment in closed primaries was a non-participatory event (more on that later). But Tuesday’s election featured some big wins and epic fails.
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EDITORIALS
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.
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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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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.


