What a difference a border makes

If you live in Post Falls and drive six miles into Washington you have just crossed the Great Divide. What an incredibly different political environment. You have left Idaho, in which the governor and all elected state officials, both U.S. senators and both congressmen are Republicans; the state legislature is GOP-controlled, and marijuana sales and gay marriage are illegal.

JAMES W. RAMSEY

Kootenai

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