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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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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;…
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…
What's in a name?
From Webster's New International Dictionary, second edition, unabridged 1934, page 2725:
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.
Proposition 1 is bad for Idaho
Ranked choice voting (on the ballot as Proposition 1 this fall) harms American elections.
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…
Toughen up and vote for Larson
Abortion bans are a lethal threat to the women in your life.
Ambiguous, politics and initiatives
Ambiguity is the diabolical language of the devil.
Vote no on Proposition 1
Proposition 1
Maybe Harris should join 'The View'
I wonder where Kamala Harris is going to end up after the election.