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Jim Jones

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Updated 2 weeks, 4 days ago

OPINION: Should Idaho’s attorney general be a competent lawyer or a politician?

The law requires that we put our personal beliefs aside when doing this work. Giving a green light to legislation …

Updated 1 month ago
OPINION: Abortion is the issue that may decide the attorney general race

Labrador may experience strong backlash from voters for his over-the-top interpretation and enforcement of Idaho’s strictest-in-the-nation abortion law.

Updated 1 month, 1 week ago
OPINION: Where’s the beef, Senator Risch?

It must be election season again because I’m seeing many down-home TV ads of Jim Risch wearing his cowboy uniform and tossing hay to his cattle, as well as a b…

Updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
OPINION: Can a church really funnel dark money into the campaign against Prop 1?

Labrador’s opinion would subvert the very purpose of the Sunshine Act

Updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago
OPINION: Attorney General Labrador can’t seem to resist conflicts of interest

His primary objective in office has been to rack up political points by trying to stamp out abortion in every form.

Updated 2 months ago
OPINION: INL can thrive without becoming a permanent nuclear waste repository

INL will continue to be the premier nuclear innovator in the country, even if Idaho does not get the NLIC designation.

Updated 2 months, 1 week ago
OPINION: Water is a missing element in the grand plan to build up the INL

The State should not rush headlong into signing a binding agreement to take one-third of the nuclear waste in the country unless and until there is a clear and…

Updated 2 months, 2 weeks ago
OPINION: Is Idaho getting ready to buy a nuclear waste pig in a poke?

Idahoans should ask some searching questions and get some firm commitments from the federal government before blundering into a Host Agreement that will be leg…

Updated 2 months, 3 weeks ago
OPINION: Bombing Iran back to the Stone Age is not a winning strategy

The lame excuses dished out by members of Idaho’s Congressional delegation, all of whom solemnly pledged to support the Constitution, demonstrate the extent of…

Updated 3 months ago
OPINION: Now is the time for all good candidates to come to the aid of their state

The outcome of the May primary election demonstrated that Idaho voters have had their fill of those who won’t get serious about making life better for the peop…

Updated 3 months, 1 week ago
OPINION: Our cradle-to-grave Supreme Court desperately needs reform

The longer a Justice sits in the ivory tower of the Court, the greater the likelihood of losing touch with the real world.

Updated 3 months, 2 weeks ago
OPINION: AG Labrador strikes out with 'birthright citizen” case

We should expect our Attorney General to observe and respect the rule of law, instead of bending to the whims of politics.

Updated 3 months, 3 weeks ago
OPINION: Voting rights, once a Republican thing, now in GOP’s rearview mirror

The Republican regression has reached a fever pitch with the GOP push for passage of the preposterously-named SAVE America Act (Save Act).