Politics
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Questions about who knew what and when they knew it. The controversy over whether domestic sheep transmit deadly pathogens to bighorn sheep seems to have been settled. At issue now is whether studies were intentionally suppressed by staff of the Caine Veterinary Teaching Center in Caldwell Idaho, whether leadership at the lab had cultivated a…
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Will she bring some balance back to a Supreme Court dominated by conservative judicial activists? Judge Sonia Sotomayor: an environmental pragmatist. By Jean Williams. Examiner.com
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Nevada wants to keep regulation out of federal hands for selfish reasons According to the Las Vegas Sun the battle over the huge mercury plume from the recently-closed (again) Jerritt Canyon mine is really over Nevada keeping control of regulating its gold mining industry. Closing mine part of bigger battle. State wants to keep feds…
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Homer Lee Wilkes withdraws- Obama pick to oversee forests withdraws. AP. Updated story. There had been some controversy over the nomination, and disappointment from conservationists.
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Conflict of interest results in suppressed study ? Note: a more robust story than initially has been linked to below Marie Bulgin is Coordinator of the University of Idaho’s Caine Veterinary Teaching and Research Center, a prominent research facility that has investigated potential links between domestic sheep disease and bighorn die-offs. At the same time…
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Idaho will get more than any other state- This could do a lot of good for water quality and fisheries if the money is used to replace culverts with bridges that allow the passage of fish upstream. Here is the AP article on it by Matthew Daly. There is irony that Idaho has received more…
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Idaho Values Alliance and sole employee leaves for state with no wolves- Bryan Fischer came to Idaho in 2006. He spent most of his time lobbying in favor of his vision of families and against a more inclusive view. Although he was just an one man operation, he also had time to rail against wolves…
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Crapo “Does that mean dam breaching must be on the table? Yes.” Senator Craig would never allow that kind of talk, nor would Idaho’s water political establishment. Crapo didn’t say he favored breaching the 4 salmon- killing dams on the lower Snake River in Washington State. He just said it had to be on the…