Over this last, past sultry Fourth of July weekend I had the opportunity to speak to a number of "Millennials" - visiting friends of my college-aged sons.
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Judging from the online comments, Maureen Dolan's recent article about Reach America's video "The Thaw" raised questions in the minds of those unfamiliar with the tradition of Christian
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I read that in the wake of the recent presidential election, 70,000 Texans signed a petition for secession from the Union. For a man descended from generations of Republicans the re-appearance of secessionist sentiment seems like a confirmed report of the beginning of a zombie apocalypse; still, I feel the …
I noted a recent letter to the editor on the general topic of county impact fees. The writer, Larry Spencer, makes a few good points but creates some confusion in his attempt to clear up "common misconceptions."
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I think by now everyone in Kootenai County understands how the LCDC, in particular, and tax-increment financing in general work: that citizens county-wide are asked to subsidize high-tax revenue generating projects within a "blighted" Urban Renewal District somewhere else in the county by paying temporarily higher taxes to any of …
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Since the Lake City is taking a stretch between innings in America's "real national pastime" of politics and the recent non-partisan elections turned out to be so hotly contested, I thought it might be timely to share a little inside baseball from the political arena in preparation for what might …
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I grew up in Indianapolis, Ind., - a city and state that engaged in a well-known, decade-long dalliance with the Ku Klux Klan. At one point in the mid 1920s, the Klan counted in its membership one-third of all native-born, white males residing within the state, the governor, a senator, …
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In the recent announcement for his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the Idaho 1rst Congressional District, one of the seemingly more reform-minded candidates noted that anyone who reviewed the historical Republican Party platforms would be disappointed by how far the party has strayed far from its roots.
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