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Reimagining Idaho’s Future Nuclear Role (opens the original)
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Idaho — along with Utah, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Tennessee —is one of five finalist states being considered to host one of three federally-designated Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses, an initiative of the Trump Administration designed to spur a nuclear power renaissance.The plan is to choose three states to spur nuclear power research and innovation by manufacturing nuclear components and handling the full nuclear cycle, including reprocessing of spent nuclear rods (to allow reuse) and long
Elected to Govern, Not Go Viral (opens the original)
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In North Idaho, winning the Republican primary most often means winning the election. While that gives Republicans a considerable margin for error, it doesn’t give anyone a license to govern badly.There is a crucial difference between winning an election and governing once you get there. Campaigning rewards passion and the occasional well-placed sharp elbow, rhetorically speaking. Governing requires judgment, restraint, competence, and remembering that the institution you oversee doesn’t belong
Ozzie Knezovich: Coming Home to Serve (opens the original)
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Ozzie Knezovich is an Army veteran, and he has developed a habit of turning down the thank-you. He says he did that for you, so don’t thank him for it. If you want to thank a veteran, vote. And vote in the primary, because the loudest people in both parties figured out a long time ago that most of us don’t.I first met Ozzie in 2019, when I went up to Spokane to see him and spent the first few minutes of the visit admiring the 1911 he was carrying in an upside-down cross-draw rig. In the years si
9 Out of 10 White Supremacists Prefer Rory McShane (opens the original)
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Rory McShane runs a Las Vegas political campaign shop, now called RMC Strategy (Revolutionizing Microtargeted Campaigns), and his own clients page reads like a who’s who list for national extremism. Paul Gosar. Andy Biggs. Bob Good. Corey Stewart. Jim Marchant. McShane sells these associations as a credential, which tells you exactly who they are trying to attract.McShane is a leading practitioner of confrontational politics. His firm’s Vice President, Woodrow Johnston, shamelessly used that pla
THE CASE FOR INDEPENDENCE (opens the original)
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As a fourth-generation Idahoan, I come by my independence honestly. I was raised with a healthy skepticism of government and a deep belief that how we treat our neighbors matters just as much as how our leaders treat us. I have spent my career as a physician assistant, meeting people in emergency rooms on some of the hardest days of their lives. In those moments, party labels do not matter. What matters is trust, accountability, compassion, and whether someone is willing to show up and help. Tho
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