The Open Primaries Initiative will protect public school sports programs

Having grown up in a small farming community, I can attest that public schools are the heart and soul of…

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The 2024 GOP primary results show the urgent need for election reform

The results of the Republican primary election graphically demonstrate, once again, how the closed primary, together with massive amounts of…

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Will Labrador succeed in an effort to politicize county prosecutor offices?

When I served as Idaho Attorney General in the 1980s, there was a strong bond between my office and the…

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Your vote on May 21 could change the direction of the Dorothy Moon GOP

During these last few years, the Republican Party has strayed far from its traditional roots as a political party dedicated…

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This primary election will be the last where smear campaigns succeed

Ever since the Republican Party decided to close its primary elections in 2011, we have witnessed increasingly nasty, truth-deprived GOP…

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The morality police won in this chapter, but that’s not the end of the book

Idaho has an interesting history of occasionally using the power of government for or against religion. Fortunately, when all is…

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Idaho’s County Clerks are not mere clerks. Let’s give them our respect.

We sometimes hear Idaho’s County Clerks spoken of dismissively as mere clerks– low-level functionaries just there to carry out the…

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Moon’s GOP dances to the tune of the Idaho Freedom Foundation

Dorothy Moon’s branch of the Republican Party is so entwined with the inaptly named Idaho Freedom Foundation (IFF) that it…

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