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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.
Opinion
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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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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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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...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the editor-05-22-2012
According to Dynamis, the proposed waste-to-energy plant at the Ada County landfill is “one of the best in the world.”
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READER'S OPINION
Reader's View, salmon recovery: Spill buys Idaho fish a little more time
This spring, for the seventh straight year, salmon and steelhead migrating from Idaho to the Pacific Ocean are reaping the benefits of court-ordered spill, which pushes more water through reservoirs and flushes fish away from salmon-killing turbines on eight dams in the lower Snake and Columbia ...
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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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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the Editor: 05-21-2012
As America sinks slowly but inexorably into a theocratical morass, one has to wonder if this is really what the Founders intended. When I was younger, elections seemed to be more about matters — important matters that affected all Americans. If a candidate held religious beliefs, they were ...
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