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Imagine that. Surprise, surprise!  A year ago, Washington became the first state to substantially lower tuition since the recession. The Legislature poured nearly $160 million directly into the coffers of colleges and universities and capped how much they are allowed to charge students. Some called it a “historic” effort to pull skyrocketing tuition rates back […]

It cracks me up when people tell me that they are being generous to charity with *my* money.

Via Andy Borowitz:  A humanitarian crisis has been unfolding over the past week as Republican refugees seeking asylum have overrun the Democratic National Committee headquarters, in Washington, D.C. D.N.C. staffers have confirmed that they were woefully unprepared for the masses of desperate Republicans who have shown up at the D.N.C.’s door, looking for safe harbor.

They are blocking positive educational options because they are “for the kids”. Uh-huh. Follow the money into the pockets of the teacher unions… Teachers unions, parents and other groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday over Washington’s new charter school law, a measure that was enacted last spring after the state Supreme Court struck down the old

Well done to the Latah County Board of County Commissioners!  Latah County got good news about its current budget Wednesday. Initial figures indicate the county’s revenues from sales and liquor taxes are higher than the estimates predicted last year. The county commissioners discussed the year’s revenues to date, as well as considerations of county employee

Their party in crisis, Republicans’ frustration with Donald Trump reached new heights on Wednesday as party leaders on Capitol Hill and inside New York’s Trump Tower scrambled to persuade their presidential nominee to abandon divisive tactics that have triggered sinking poll numbers and low morale. Party Chairman Reince Priebus appealed to the New York billionaire’s

They have a category “Crimes Against Society”. These are “crimes” that hurt no one but the individual himself, but it’s a crime nevertheless. You’ll have to read to the end to see what it is.  Crimes against people, property and society declined in Pullman between 2014-15, according the Pullman Police Department’s 2015 Annual Report. While

Via the Daily News:  A fire that began in the Wawawai Canyon and jumped a one-quarter-mile section of the Snake River on Tuesday afternoon is about 10 percent contained and had burned about 10,000 acres as of Wednesday evening. The State Fire Marshal’s Office estimated Tuesday night the fire had burned 11,000 acres, but local

In a searing denouncement, President Barack Obama castigated Donald Trump as “unfit” and “woefully unprepared” to serve in the White House. He challenged Republicans to withdraw their support for their party’s nominee, declaring, “There has to come a point at which you say ‘enough.’ “ While Obama has long been critical of Trump, his blistering

U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo has long said debt is our nation’s biggest threat, but he sees overregulation as a challenger that’s coming on strong. “Overregulation is quickly catching up to the national debt as one of our top threats,” the Idaho Republican told 90 Coeur d’Alene Chamber of Commerce members Tuesday at the Best Western Plus

Via Betsy Z. Russell:  A few tidbits from 1st District GOP Congressman Raul Labrador’s appearance in Eagle today: When a constituent told Labrador, a tea party conservative, that she never watches Fox News, Labrador responded, “I actually watch CNN more than any other, because I don’t want one side or the other to constantly bombard

Via the Idaho Statesman:  After a 9.3 percent increase this year, next year’s set-asides for Idaho state employee health insurance costs are forecast to increase about 10 percent as medical and prescription costs continue to rise, a state legislative committee heard Wednesday. The increase is more or less in line with those other large public

Posted here in full. This is a significant move by our Idaho Rep. Raúl Labrador.  He’s also looking older and grayer than last time I saw him. The stress of the job must we weighing on him.  A year after the U.S. Supreme Court gave same-sex couples the right to marry, Republicans in the House of Representatives

Further mapping of the Snake River Fire shows a much larger blaze than previously thought.  Local managers of the fire are now estimating that about 65 hundred acres have burned in Southern Whitman County.  Volunteers from all over the county and into Idaho were able to hold the Eastern flank of the fire pretty well

Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador today blamed the “establishment in Washington” for the defeat of his ally and fellow Freedom Caucus member Tim Huelskamp, who lost his re-election bid in a Republican primary in Kansas yesterday. Labrador, speaking at a “Conversations with the Congressman” meeting at an Eagle café, said Huelskamp lost “because he went against