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The Cabin, a writing academy based in a 78-year-old building south of Boise's main library, is absent from plans for a new library. Though the new building wouldn't overlap The Cabin's headquarters, it would come close to touching it, raising concerns that The Cabin and its building might have to move.

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Parking, costs, the Cabin: Are city leaders listening to citizens on new library design?

Is the city truly open to incorporating citizen suggestions? We ask this because this is big project with a lot at stake, and Mayor David Bieter has a tendency to get his back up and dig in his heels when his ideas are challenged.

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Repeal Idaho’s absurd, unenforced ban on aerial fireworks. We need a law people will respect.

Idaho law regulating aerial fireworks starts by asking customers to commit perjury. It gets worse from there. It's ignored by all, disrespected by citizens, not enforced by authorities, and offers little recourse for victims.

Hundreds of Treasure Valley residents gathered at City Hall on Monday to support the refugee community and the victims of the mass stabbing in Boise on Saturday.

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Following stabbing attack, Boise translates welcoming words into community action

Boise has a long and proud tradition of welcoming people fleeing strife, from Bosnia in the 1990s, and from Africa and the Middle East in recent years. A European Union delegation visited in 2016 to learn how we welcome and integrate refugees.

Signs like this greet visitors in the parking lot and entrances to Idaho’s Garden Valley School, which has about 250 students in pre-k through 12th grades.

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Armed guards at Idaho schools: Is this the best choice for rural classrooms?

We worry about putting guns in the hands of security guards who are not trained for dealing with students, hostages or active shooters – the very scenarios for which we need qualified, trained experts.

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Let the sun shine in: Idahoans deserve to know all the donors to The Idahoan's mailing

Now that we've discovered this loophole, it's up to Secretary of State Lawerence Denney to urge the Idaho Legislature to make a simple tweak to state code to ensure that our laws designed to guarantee transparency reflect that spirit.

Rep. Paulette Jordan is challenging A.J. Balukoff for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.

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Democratic primary: Jordan offers Idaho voters a new face, new approach for governor

Paulette Jordan brings a unique biography to electoral politics in Idaho, having grown up in rural Idaho, worked in tribal government and represented North Idaho in the Legislature. She is the only serious candidate for governor who is a woman and is under 40.

Lt. Gov. Brad Little pictured as the Senate prepares to adjourn in March 2017.

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GOP primary: Experience, knowledge make Little best prepared to be Idaho's governor

With doubts about Tommy Ahlquist and Raul Labrador piling up, the dependable, trustworthy, even-keeled Brad Little looks all the better. As Labrador and Ahlquist have traded nasty barbs, as Ahlquist has tacked right, Little has campaigned as himself: Grounded and down to earth.

The dome inside of the Idaho Statehouse, looking up through the rotunda.

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Kelley Packer gets our nod in Republican race for Idaho lieutenant governor

Rep. Kelley Packer from McCammon has stood up to the Idaho Freedom Foundation and brooked the House leadership in fighting for health care.

Luke Malek at a 1st Congressional District candidate forum in Caldwell in January.

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Malek has the makings of a good representative for Idaho's 1st Congressional District

Congress is an institution in which power and stature comes with relationship-building and seniority, not extremism and finger-pointing. Coeur d'Alene Rep. Luke Malek has the most potential to develop into the member of Congress Idaho needs.

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Republican Kealey has the exact expertise, experience needed for an Idaho treasurer

Tom Kealey’s academic background, extensive business experience and long-time membership on the Endowment Fund Investment Board make him perhaps the best qualified individual to ever seek the office of treasurer.

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Stop the reefer madness. Idaho’s anti-pot hysteria confounds small businesses.

We understand Idaho policymakers’ steadfast opposition to medicinal or recreational marijuana. But to extend that same stubbornness to what is a non-intoxicating product sold routinely in most other states is silly. What’s beyond silly is that Idaho can’t really figure out if it wants to allow the sale of CBD oil or not.

David Emswiler, center, thanks Thomas Luna, right, and Hugo Elizondo who rescued him from his flooded house in northwest Houston after Hurricane Harvey Monday.

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Heartbreak and heroism in Houston

It’s cliché to say that when times are hard, Americans are at their best. But there is a truth in the truism. And the stories of boat owners, high-water vehicle owners and other average people putting themselves in harm’s way to help struggling strangers are a significant comfort in the face of news that is so bad and so sad.

Businesses in Hailey and elsewhere are preparing for the arrival of eclipse visitors to Idaho.

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Welcome to Idaho, eclipse chaser. Enjoy totality. And don’t honk.

We’re happy to have you visit our state for the August 21 solar eclipse. We’ve arranged good weather and clear skies for you. So here are a few things you can do to help us help you make your visit productive and enjoyable.

Ashley Brown holds a sign calling for acceptance of our neighbors at a Sunday vigil at the Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial in Boise.

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Simpson, Crapo leave no doubt about how Idaho views hatred and racist violence

We applaud Rep. Mike Simpson and Sen. Mike Crapo for their quick and forceful condemnation of hatred and violence. And we are disappointed with Rep. Raul Labrador, who didn’t speak out, and with Sen. Jim Risch, who didn’t respond to Saturday’s events until Monday afternoon.

A Snake River sockeye salmon after its long migration back from the Pacific to Redfish Lake Creek.

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Future of Idaho’s wild salmon can’t be sacrificed for any other interest

A grizzly bear is the dominant image of the California state flag because these ferocious beasts once roamed the mountains and valleys of the Golden State, and because they symbolized the territory’s fight for independence from Mexico. But you can’t find a grizzly in all of California today because our most populous state made decisions over time to make life miserable for them.

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Changes in politics don’t erase Idaho’s duty to those needing health care

A lot has changed on the health insurance landscape since July at the first meeting of the Idaho Legislature’s interim committee formed to study ways to help the 78,000 people in this state without coverage because they fall into the so-called Medicaid gap.

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Why the Idaho Statesman endorses political candidates

The Idaho Statesman’s seven-member Editorial Board writes editorial opinions and endorses candidates for public office. The board’s opinions, which are made after much research and discussion, are distinct from our news operation and part of our n

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