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Jim Jones

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OPINION: GOP extremists are feeling their oats, but do they misread the tea leaves?

The extremist branch of Idaho’s Republican Party, presided over by Dorothy Moon, has been feeling its oats after t…

Updated 1 year 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 1 year, 2 months 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…

Updated 1 year, 3 months ago
OPINION: Fair warning to public school patrons across the Gem State

The Idaho Freedom Foundation may be coming to your school district to carry out its publicly-proclaimed goal of getting the government out of the business of e…

Updated 1 year, 3 months ago
OPINION: What the 2022 Alaska elections can tell us about ranked-choice voting

The Dorothy Moon faction of the Republican Party has enlisted Sarah Palin to speak in Idaho Falls on August 19 about the supposed evils of ranked-choice voting…

Updated 1 year, 3 months ago
OPINION: A law firm should not malign the judge for its own bad lawyering

The publicist for Attorney General Labrador recently maligned federal judge Lynn Winmill for his July 31 decision prohibiting the AG from prosecuting doctors w…

Updated 1 year, 3 months ago
OPINION: An unwelcome primer on Idaho’s one-subject rule for legislative measures

Believe me, the last thing I want to do is drive readers to distraction by delving into an obscure and frequently ignored provision of Idaho’s Constitution. Ar…

Updated 1 year, 3 months ago
OPINION: Their hearts belong in the sky. Idahoans can help them soar

When Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in August 2021, Afghan aviators were ordered to fly their aircraft out of the country to keep them from falling into enemy…

Updated 1 year, 4 months ago
OPINION: Why file a lawsuit over deceptive initiative titles?

It is said that you can’t judge a book by its cover, which often turns out to be true, but you have to read the book to learn the truth. However, if the cover …

Updated 1 year, 4 months ago
OPINION: Freedom Foundation demonstrates its plan to destroy public education

The Idaho Freedom Foundation has already shown us how to drive a storied community college to the brink of ruin. IFF board chair Brent Regan and his wrecking c…

Updated 1 year, 5 months ago
OPINION: Idahoans must show that the Gem State is too great for hate

Back in the early 1980s, when Idahoans in the Coeur d’Alene area were confronted with a growing number of dangerous hatemongers at the Aryan Nations compound n…

Updated 1 year, 5 months ago
OPINION: Strolling down memory lane to the Stanley Redfish Trail

Two recent news reports brought back memories of a time when important figures of both political parties could work together to achieve important public object…

Updated 1 year, 5 months ago
OPINION: NIC debacle demonstrates the dangers of extremism

The political extremists who took control of North Idaho College in the 2020 trustee election wasted little time trying to destroy what had been the jewel in I…

Updated 1 year, 7 months ago
OPINION: Will the Legislature be able to financially starve the courts into submission?

No doubt about it. A large swath of the legislature is still honked off about the Idaho Supreme Court’s 2021 decision overturning a raw legislative power grab.…

Updated 1 year, 8 months ago
OPINION: Extremist GOP legislators are at it again, attacking our public libraries

The claim that Idaho librarians are dispensing pornography and other harmful materials to kids fell flat last year, but extremist GOP legislators are attacking…

Updated 1 year, 9 months ago
OPINION: Weaponizing government against transgender kids and their doctors

Idaho’s legislative culture warriors are at it again, weaponizing the government against families with transgender kids and criminalizing their doctors. House …