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| published Wednesday, June 06, 2007 |
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Betsy Russell with the Spokesman Review has written one of the best articles to date on the decision by Governor Otter to cut the popular and effective Families as Teachers program. This is well worth reading. It exposes a weakness in one of the dominant political perspectives in Idaho: that all programs we fund are inherently suspect and that it is easier to just take it away rather than work out the bureaucratic or jurisdictional challenges. Another related dominant perspective is that all tax breaks for the most powerful interests are inherently good regardless if they impair the state's ability to invest in strengthening families.
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| published Monday, March 05, 2007 |
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Going further out on the ledge, some legislators still don't get it... This is Mike Flinn's interpretation
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| published Thursday, June 08, 2006 |
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, one of the best accomplishments of the 2006 Legislative Session, will empower more Idahoans with disabilities to pursue meaningful and rewarding work.
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| published Thursday, March 02, 2006 |
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Susan Wood, recently retired assistant commissioner of women's health at the Food and Drug Administration, shares in a Washington Post op.ed her concerns that our federal health agencies seem
increasingly unable to operate independently and that this lack of
independence compromises their mission of promoting public health and
welfare. The most recent example is how the FDA is being manipulated to restrict access by adults to contraception.
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