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Keeping missing servicemembers at forefront of national conscience

Through a Congressional Record Statement, I had the opportunity to honor Idaho’s and all of America’s prisoners of…

Updated 1 day, 11 hours ago
Road construction could go a lot faster

As we all drive around Sandpoint and surrounding areas, myself included, with all of the road construction going on I have noticed all of the people working on all of those projects must be employed by “The Standin…

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There's no need to panic about toilet paper

America produces 99% of all the comfort paper it uses,

Updated 3 days, 11 hours ago
Climate change consensus claim is liberal myth

Real science can be proven. Junk science cannot, because it’s “provisional.”

Updated 3 days, 11 hours ago
World's climate crisis is real, growing

The term “climate change denier” generally refers to someone who disagrees with one or more of the following observations: 1 temperatures are trending higher globally, 2. temperatures are rising because of human ac…

Updated 3 days, 11 hours ago
Hopefully, Long Bridge work lasts longer than last time

So now the Long Bridge in Sandpoint has gotten a new surface just has it was done a few years ago. That surface didn’t even make it through the first winter before it started to peel off.

Updated 3 days, 11 hours ago
ESPN cares more about money than sports fans

In my life, I rarely wish ill will to anything (maybe believing in karma) but I now wish this happens to ESPN and all the powers to be that run this money-hungry outfit.

Updated 5 days, 11 hours ago
Don't allow your hard-won freedoms to be taken away

Let's get real: Cornel Rasor and the IFF scare the hell out of me. Why? Because I have watched women come so far in my lifetime and worry that people take that for granted.

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Closed primaries put politics to extremes

Closed primaries, in states that are monopolized by one party (like Idaho or Oregon), allow relatively small, highly motivated, extreme groups to dominate their parties by allowing those groups to focus all of thei…

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Matthee has ideas to lower cost of living

This question was asked of me in a letter favoring my opponent: How do I plan to lower the cost of living for our North Idaho families? First, let me say that my platform on my website, kmattheeforidah.com, is extr…

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Is this what we want?

This past week it was revealed that over 40 members of the staff of ex-president Trump have said that he is absolutely unfit for the office of president.

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America’s mental gulag system

At Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, Tucker Carlson may have delivered his most blistering and prescient attack on America's political class to date. At the end of it, you could see his liberation; Tucker…

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Matthee will take stand for our women

Mark Sauter recently wrote that he supported women's health during his time in Boise. Mark did - kinda - the easy votes. Six months of birth control pills and renewing the “new” Maternal Mortality Review Committee;…

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Open primaries make absolutely no sense

I guess I just must not understand the rationale behind open primaries. When I look up the definition of an open primary, google says, the primary election is an election by the political parties to nominate th…

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What's in a name?

From Webster's New International Dictionary, second edition, unabridged 1934, page 2725: