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Updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago

An update on Lake Pend Oreille and Albeni Falls Dam

District 1 legislators discuss local issues, legislations, and concerns in the weekly Notes From Boise column.

Updated 1 day, 14 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.

Updated 1 day, 14 hours ago
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…

Updated 1 day, 14 hours ago
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…

Updated 1 day, 14 hours ago
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.

Updated 1 day, 14 hours ago
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…

Updated 1 day, 14 hours ago
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…

Updated 1 day, 14 hours ago
What's in a name?

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

Updated 1 day, 14 hours ago
Don't fall for initiative's false promises

Prop 1 is "rank choice voting" … wide open, no party choice, primaries. The top four go on the ballot … up here probably three Republicans and one Democrat.

Updated 1 day, 14 hours ago
Proposition 1 is bad for Idaho

Ranked choice voting (on the ballot as Proposition 1 this fall) harms American elections.

Updated 1 day, 14 hours ago
Cornel Rasor will represent us well

Cornel Rasor grew up in Bonner County, has been a local businessman for 43 years, served as a Bonner County commissioner, and was appointed as an Idaho representative to finish out the term of former Representative…

Updated 1 day, 14 hours ago
Toughen up and vote for Larson

Abortion bans are a lethal threat to the women in your life.

Updated 1 day, 14 hours ago
Ambiguous, politics and initiatives

Ambiguity is the diabolical language of the devil.

Updated 1 day, 14 hours ago
Vote no on Proposition 1

Proposition 1

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Maybe Harris should join 'The View'

I wonder where Kamala Harris is going to end up after the election.