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After attending the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, Bert Marley knew he wanted the 2016 convention to be different. In L.A., Idaho delegates stayed at a hotel in a Beverly Hills neighborhood while the convention and most other delegates were downtown. Worst of all, he said, Idaho’s delegation was on the outskirts alone. […]

The father of a fallen American Muslim soldier openly rebuked Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims to the country, asking if the Republican nominee for president is familiar with the rights granted by the Constitution to all Americans. Khizr Khan’s family paid the ultimate sacrifice in 2004 when his son, Capt. Humayun Khan, was killed

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton cut a line from her prepared acceptance speech referencing her failed 2008 campaign for president.  Clinton’s remarks, as prepared for delivery at the Democratic National Convention, included a description of her past roles on the national stage:  “I’ve been your first lady. Served eight years as a senator from the

Many political pundits said Hillary Clinton’s biggest task with her culminating speech at the Democratic National Convention Thursday was to take the edge off her flinty exterior and show the nation a different side of her personality. Lewiston City Councilor Jesse Maldonado, who has attended the convention in Philadelphia this week as a Clinton delegate

Some local news:  Those traveling between Moscow and Pullman from 6 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday should expect delays due to a chip-seal project on the outside eastbound and westbound lanes, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation. The lanes will be closed as workers fill road ruts. 

How to buy yourself a judge and a judicial decision. This is America.  Major supporters of charter schools in Washington are spending heavily to defeat state Supreme Court Chief Justice Barbara Madsen, who wrote last year’s decision finding the institutions unconstitutional.   The News Tribune reports that the political action committee of Stand for Children spent

This is the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, and the focus is on presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Clinton will speak Thursday, and is expected to discuss how to boost the economy, improve national security and unite a divided nation. She will aim to strike a stark contrast with Republican nominee Donald

We can only hope that Gary Johnson makes it into the September debates. There will be some real content for American voters. Via Fox Business: While the presumptive Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein courts the Bernie Sanders supporters protesting at the DNC, Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson says he has decided to take the

Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador is the sixth-poorest member of Congress, according to a comparison by InsideGov.com, with an average net worth, based on his federal financial disclosures, of minus $216,000. That’s far eclipsed by the poorest member, Rep. David Valadao, R-Calif., whose $25 million-plus in debt stems from a family dairy farm that his father started

Now the United States has had a two-party system from the beginning. This is part of our unwritten constitution, but one that is a necessary result of the written structures that the Constitution put into place. In a parliamentary system, the chief executive is a “congressman.” This cedes a great deal of power to splinter

They aren’t struggling very hard. This is a no-brainer (pardon the pun, Planned Parenthood). #PPSellsBabyParts Not much about the 2016 presidential campaign has been business as usual. In addition to nominating two divisive candidates, both parties are challenging major political measures that have long been off the table. On the Republican side, Donald Trump promises to repeal the

On the final day of the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders attended breakfast at the Idaho delegates’ hotel, where he addressed them along with delegations from Utah, West Virginia, Hawaii, North and South Dakota. The convention has been tense for Sanders delegates, who feel as though the DNC was unfair

Shortly after The Washington Post inadvertently published a photo of seven TSA master keys, a group of security experts were able to copy their designs and release their 3D models online. Now, these same experts have deciphered the secrets of the eighth and last master key the agency uses even without a photo to guide them. The first seven keys are

Via Cd’A Press:  A Republican Party that includes Donald Trump no longer has room for Jeff Ward or Lora Gervais. In protest, the two leaders of the Kootenai County Reagan Republicans notified the club’s board last week that they’re resigning, and the public announcement is expected to be made today, Ward said. “I cannot associate with a

His own legacy on the line, President Barack Obama implored Americans to elect Hillary Clinton to the White House, casting her as a candidate who believes in the optimism that drives the nation’s democracy and warning against the “deeply pessimistic vision” of Republican Donald Trump. “America is already great. America is already strong,” he declared

Good thing they have their priorities straight. They should read the polls. No one cares about AGW except the DNC. But the party also sees this as an opportunity to spur job growth at the country moves towards clean energy on all levels. “Democrats reject the notion that we have to choose between protecting our

This should concern everyone: the ability to remove one’s constitutional rights by the court based on hear-say. Voters will get a chance to decide in November whether Washington judges should be able to order people who are considered dangerous to give up their guns. Initiative 1491 would allow family members or law enforcement officials to