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Jim Jones

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Updated 5 days, 21 hours ago

OPINION: This bill is a referendum slayer

Oppose HB 652

Updated 1 week, 4 days ago
OPINION: Attorney General Labrador has no business meddling in election security

House Bill 470 would create an “Office of Election Crimes and Security” in Raul Labrador’s office. That would certainly be a waste of taxpayer dollars. The off…

Updated 2 weeks, 5 days ago
OPINION: The school facilities bill is the right thing, done in the wrong way

The Idaho Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that the Legislature has the constitutional duty to provide for the construction and maintenance of safe public schools f…

Updated 1 month ago
OPINION: Labrador bets heavily on abortion in his gamble to win higher office

During his first year as Idaho Attorney General, Raul Labrador has placed most of his chips on the abortion issue in his quest for higher office. He has been a…

Updated 1 month, 1 week ago
OPINION: Property taxpayers will have to foot the bill for the 'school choice' scheme

Every legislative session brings some new “school choice” scheme that is touted as a way to improve elementary and secondary education in Idaho by offering mor…

Updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
OPINION: The extremist branch of Idaho’s GOP is producing a moving experience

Many people have literally been moved by the ugly performance of Idaho’s Republican extremists in recent years. That is, significant numbers of teachers, libra…

Updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago
OPINION: Let’s not render Idaho’s domestic terrorism law useless

Idaho’s landmark Terrorist Control Act will be rendered useless by passage of a bill recently introduced in the Idaho Senate.

Updated 2 months ago
OPINION: If you pay peanuts for a job, you’re likely to attract monkeys

Judges are the heart of the American system of justice. Faith in our court system depends upon having judges who are competent and impartial. That, in turn, re…

Updated 2 months, 2 weeks ago
OPINION: 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 orders of county commissione…

Updated 2 months, 3 weeks ago
OPINION: 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 is hard to know who is calling the s…

Updated 3 months ago
OPINION: Sandra O’Connor was a remarkable Supreme Court Justice

Sandra Day O’Connor, who died on Dec. 1, was an accomplished jurist who demonstrated that women lawyers and judges are every bit as good as men. Although there…

Updated 3 months, 2 weeks ago
OPINION: Idaho voters can be trusted to responsibly exercise their initiative rights

It was a bit surprising to read an opinion piece that Representative Lance Clow (R-Twin Falls) has circulated to media outlets around the state, warning Idahoa…

Updated 3 months, 3 weeks ago
OPINION: Senate Pro Tem Chuck Winder has had his fill of incivility in the ranks

Senator Chuck Winder, the leader of Idaho’s Senate, is a good and patient man. I often disagree with him on issues coming before the Senate, but I don’t questi…

Updated 4 months, 1 week ago
OPINION: What can individual Idahoans do to honor America’s veterans?

Americans can commemorate Veterans Day twice this year. The official observance is Nov. 11. It dates back to the armistice ending World War I, which went into …

Updated 6 months, 3 weeks ago
OPINION: Bad news keeps coming for the extremist branch of the Republican Party

The past few weeks have not been kind to the Dorothy Moon faction of the Idaho Republican Party, which has taken over party control since the GOP primary was c…