Giving thanks for those volunteers who took on the party bosses on Prop 1

When I was going to law school in Chicago during the mid-1960s, Mayor Richard Daley was the undisputed boss of…

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Idaho voters face a stark “them-or-us” choice in November

Bryan Smith, an ultra-right Republican and vice chair of the extremist Idaho Freedom Foundation (IFF), understands that the Open Primaries…

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A short history lesson for Moon and Labrador on ranked-choice voting

The opponents of Proposition 1, the Open Primaries Initiative, have been making uninformed claims about this game-changing voting reform. Dorothy…

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Stop the GOP steal of Idaho’s Great Seal

The extremist branch of the Idaho Republican Party is in an absolute panic about the Open Primaries Initiative (OPI), which…

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Voters should reject the SJR 102 legislative power grab

Voters should reject the SJR 102 legislative power grab By Ben Ysursa, Bruce Newcomb and Jim Jones The three of…

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Idaho’s Office of Performance Evaluations provides a valuable service

There has been talk of reducing legislative support for the Legislature’s independent and nonpartisan Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE), which…

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