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Texas considers review of private prisons

Nathaniel Hoffman — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:01:34 +0000

Texas lawmakers are considering a review of private prisons, following the pullout of Idaho DOC. Family of two Idaho inmates who killed themselves at the private GEO Group Bill Clayton Detention Center testified at the Texas Legislature. Texas lawmaker on the…

Mapping the Evangelical vote

Nathaniel Hoffman — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:19:28 +0000

Northwest political analyst/blogger Randy Stapilus found this map on Christianity Today's Web site, showing the evangelical vote across the country, based on CNN exit polling... click headline for more.

Want election information?

Nathaniel Hoffman — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:02:53 +0000

Please head over to citydesk at the Boise Weekly for all your election coverage needs…

New Paleo/BW project

Nathaniel Hoffman — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:17:13 +0000

This site has admittedly been pretty sporadic for a few months. We’ve been dealing with a new baby, a new job and trying to get in shape for elk season. So thanks to all the folks that keep checking back.

You…

Press-Tribune layoffs not in newsroom

Nathaniel Hoffman — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:38:13 +0000

The Idaho Press-Tribune announced 16 layoffs Wednesday, but publisher Rick Weaver said editorial staff has not been cut. "Business is just bad," Weaver said. "If the economy was better we wouldn’t be doing it." The Canyon County paper posted a story Wednesday afternoon announcing the layoffs.

Secret Service Said So

Nathaniel Hoffman — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:33:14 +0000

The city and the Governor's Office are in the midst of a parking spat, with city parking officials irked that Otter's security Suburban regularly parks on the sidewalk outside of the Borah Building.

Results of PaleoMedia.org races to watch

Nathaniel Hoffman — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:38:35 +0000

Initial analysis of last night's primary shows some mixed results. Hot races in the unsettled territory between West Boise and Oregon, or at least from Boise to Caldwell, ended up all over the map. Moyle drew out his rural base in north Boise Valley but Boise businessman Chuck Winder also landed the Senate seat there. In Meridian proper, McKague held on, but west of there, in Wilder country, former bureaucrat Takasugi managed to defeat the red-baiting rhetoric of Otter appointee Bowers.

Eight Idaho counties to use new voting system

Nathaniel Hoffman — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:46:03 +0000

Eight Idaho counties will use new balloting systems on Tuesday, including Idaho's most populous county. Elections offices in Ada, Blaine, Cassia, Latah, Lemhi, Madison and Teton counties are using brand new bubble (think SAT) or "arrow" ballots and optical scan vote counters in Tuesday's Primary Election...

Takasugi: lawmakers shouldn’t just throw labels around

Nathaniel Hoffman — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:42:06 +0000

Curtis Bowers, the District 10 state representative that claimed in an Idaho Press Tribune column earlier this year to have infiltrated a 1992 Communist Party meeting in Berkley, recently told a small Canyon County crowd that he is against three things: liberalism, statism and post-modernism. At the same forum Bowers’ opponent Pat Takasugi, accused the incumbent, in a video message, of being bogged down in philosophical issues.

Idaho’s best online news, now prettier

Nathaniel Hoffman — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:03:08 +0000

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