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Letters to the editor - 5-20-13
Thanks to the Statesman for covering the recent release of the EPA's updated Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment. As an avid sportsman, I can say there are very few places quite like Bristol Bay left, with an abundance of salmon that feeds bears and eagles and people and the land. It's clear the construction...
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EDITORIALS
Our View: Sen. Mike Crapo's campaign loan scandal calls for further disclosure
The Sen. Mike Crapo public file over the past six months is certainly a mixed bag of good, bad and "say what?"
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the Editor: Elections, 05-19-2013
It is legally possible for the Greater Boise Auditorium District Board to use funds the district generates in a variety of ways including a sports venue. I am supporting the current board members running for re-election: Astorquia, Perez and Oliver because they have pledged to use the funds to ...
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READER'S OPINION
Vincent Kituku: Idaho lawmakers take a moral, ethical stand against legalizing dangerous drug
Joseph is dead. Boniface is a beggar. They started taking marijuana in 1974 as freshmen in high school. They were not only my classmates, but blood and humanitarian relatives. We shared food, shared clothes, worked together and slept on the same makeshift bed.
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EDITORIALS
Reader's View, Greater Boise Auditorium District: For good investment, be sure to vote in GBAD election
A friend of mine once compared the Greater Boise Auditorium District with a commercial jet taking off.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the editor-05-18-2013
The Boise Music Week's Church Night performance May 5 by the Boise Philharmonic Master Chorale was outstanding as they sang Sergei Rachmaninoff's "All-Night Vigil."
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READER'S OPINION
Reader's View, mental illness: With mental health, we need more talk, less stigma
Words have power. On Dec. 14, 2012, two days after my 13-year-old son was admitted to an acute care mental hospital, 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot his mother, then killed 20 first-graders, six brave educators, and himself.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the editor: GBAD elections
The Greater Boise Auditorium District is a fairly obscure agency but it has a huge impact on our local economy. GBAD operates the Boise Centre on the Grove and brings in millions of dollars a year for our economy, supporting hundreds of jobs and businesses. It's essential that competent, experienced...
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EDITORIALS
Our View, Nampa, Meridian: Bigger councils, more ideas
The phrase "government expansion" normally might cause some voters in Idaho's second- and third-largest cities to recoil at the thought. Nonetheless, we think it is a good idea to have this vote on city council expansion to take the "representative ratio" temperature of Meridian and Nampa.






