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...provide us with the results we want. Instead, lobbyists for corporations get what they want. While we like to hold our system as a standard around the world, it is just not giving the results. So let us look hard at our system - and at ourselves. Tom Edgar, BOISE, IDAHO...
...other way around. We send people to Washington to do our work. Sadly, they don't provide us with the results we want. Instead, lobbyists for health-related corporations get what they want. So let us look really hard at our system--and also at ourselves. Tom Edgar, BOISE, IDAHO...
...thesis that Bush's "Truthfulness" opposed Cheney's amorality in the Libby affair is laughable. Where was this so-called ethical sobriety in the cynical justifications for a catastrophic war, torture and increased domestic surveillance? Bush and Cheney share an equal comfort with dark-side politics. Alan Johnson, POCATELLO, IDAHO...
...last winter, the game had changed. When the couple started looking at houses again, they found plenty in their price range. The western suburbs of Boise, Idaho - four- and five-year-old neighborhoods scattered among hay farms and potato fields - are no longer a favorite stomping ground of out-of-state speculators, no longer a surefire way to get rich in real estate. (See pictures of Boise's struggling housing market...
None of this means everyone's happy. In fact, one of the ways in which Boise reflects a return to local logic is the city's rising foreclosure rate. It hasn't been tricky subprime and Alt-A loans tripping up the folks in Idaho; it's been the flailing economy. At 10.1%, Boise's unemployment rate is above the national average and nearly twice what it was this time last year. As big employers such as HP and semiconductor maker Micron lay off thousands of workers, job losses cascade through other industries and small businesses. If people...