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In today’s letter, Doug Mason of Meridian writes:
Rep. Bill Sali’s Reader’s View of Dec. 5 was, at best, a distortion of facts. Rep. Sali claims that he voted against “wasteful spending” as the bills in question contained earmarks (a …

Perhaps an unfair generalization, but no more unfair than that of Tom Akren who writes in Today’s Letters:
Most folks that are Republicans are Republicans because their parents or some friend was a Republican. Their political decisions are strongly influenced …

Two ex-Californians write in defense of  Californians who have moved to Idaho:

Mark Clayton writes:
The majority of Californians moving here, most notably from the Riverside area he refers to, are not liberals. Inland southern California remains one of the state’s …

There’ve been a few letters to the Editor in the Statesman, I’ve meant to post responses to. So,  here goes.

On July 1, David Volk wrote:
I had no problem a couple of months ago finding studies, both here and abroad, …

It’s time to respond to some Letters to the Editor. Victor Watson writes on Tuesday:
Recently, as a colleague and I discussed and exulted over the historic 68 percent supermajority passage of the community college, my friend commented that it …

I started this blog doing a daily response, but gave up after 5 or 6 months of responding to Statesman letters to the editor. I’m going to go ahead and try it out to day and see what happens. From …

Someone writes a Letter to the Editor complaining about License Plate laws not being enforced:

It appears from observing the large number of vehicles without a front license plate in Ada County that it is no longer necessary to display …

In Today’s Statesman, there were some letters to editors in regards to Canyon County’s reluctance to pass emission regulations. I’d missed this story, but here’s a brief summary:

But Canyon County residents were angry at Ada’s efforts to push …

The AP has called the Governor’s race for Butch Otter and Jerry Brady on the Republican and Democratic sides. Current results have Otter up 71-21 over Dan Adamson while Brady leads Jerry Cheney by an 83-17% margin.

To me, it …

The Statesman’s Letters to the Editor has some more anti-Brandi letters. I’m not going to go over them all, because I’ve responded to most of the points but Willie Lynn Hollingsworth sets a new record for elitism:

To …