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<div>Listed online as available at UI Bookstore for $24.95. I'm sure
Bob can get it if not on the shelf at Bookpeople as well.</div>
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<div>At 8:00 AM -0700 6/3/06, Tom Hansen wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Thank you very, very much, Mr.
Solomon.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Does anybody know whether or not the book "Idaho's
Constitution: The tie That Binds" can be found at either Bookpeople
or the UI Bookstore?</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">I suspected that Moscow's "political and economic
influence" developed roots long before last January
3rd.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">I have always been an easy mark when it comes to state
and local history.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">If I may make two recommendations:</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">1) O Palouse - A documentary (DVD) of the
history of the Palouse region.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">2) "Up the Swiftwater" by Sandra Crowell and
David Asleson - A pictorial history of the upper St. Joe River
region.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">As you so eloquently reflected:</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">"There was no timber industry to speak of, no
north-south road, and very few Republicans."</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">If only . . .</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Seeya round town, Moscow.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Tom Hansen</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Moscow, Idaho</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman" size="-1"
color="#000080">************************************************<br>
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."<br>
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- Benjamin Franklin<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="-1"><b>From:</b>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]<b> On Behalf Of</b> Mark
Solomon<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, June 03, 2006 7:14 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Donovan Arnold; Jerry Weitz; Michael;
vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] is V2020 doomed?</font></blockquote>
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face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">A quick
review of Idaho history should serve to remind us that Moscow/Latah's
"political and economic influence in the state" was due to
the demographics of the 1800's. When Idaho entered the Union in the
post Civil War era, the major population centers were the mining
districts of the state (primarily the Silver Valley), the main trading
centers situated along major transportation hubs (still largely river
or Oregon Trail focused : Lewiston and Boise), some dryland farmers in
the Palouse and the beginnings of irrigated ag along the Snake in the
south. There was no timber industry to speak of, no north-south road,
and very few Republicans. To a large extent, Idaho was Democratic, as
in Southern Democrat in post Civil War America. When it came to
setting up the new state's infrastructure, the north with it's large
population block was able to secure the capitol in Lewiston (the
terminus for upriver navigation on the Snake), the state hospital in
Orofino (Orofino used to be a gold mining town before Weyherhauser and
the green gold of timber came in the early 1900's), the teachers
college in Lewiston (now LCSC) and the state university in Moscow
(whose moderate Republican leaders banded with the Dixiecrats to
prevent the Mormons of south Idaho from dominating the state. South
Idaho got the prison in Boise and the School for the Deaf and Blind in
Gooding (another Oregon Trail connection although I can't recall if
that happened at the same time as statehood). ISU was eventually
established in Pocatello (a Democratic RR town), but that was much
later.</font></blockquote>
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face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">For an
excellent account of how the state came to be formed, I recommend UI
Law Professor Dennis Colson's book on writing the Idaho
Constitution:<font color="#000000"> Idaho's Constitution: The Tie That
Binds</font></font></blockquote>
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face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">It was a
marriage of convenience that lasted, for Moscow, a surprisingly long
time. Lewiston lost the capitol quite quickly when the instruments of
state power were "stolen" and transported to Boise via the
only connecting route: downriver on the Snake and then over the Oregon
Trail via Pendleton to south Idaho (a trail any one who has to go to
Boise from Moscow has travelled more than once if you've had the
misfortune of needing to be in Boise, with a car, when a rockslide
closes Highway 95).</font></blockquote>
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face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">What has
diminished Moscow's influence in the state has far less to do with the
internal workings of our community than the explosive growth of the
state capitol (with all the attendant power that implies along with
it's setting aside the mainline RR and an Interstate highway), the
race hate politics of the 60's, 70's and 80's that saw tectonic shifts
in the major parties political platforms with Southern Democrats
realizing they are now Republicans, the national shift from moderate
to radically conservative Republicans and a winner take all mindset
first seen here in the Church/Symms race in 1982, white flight from
other states in the 80' and 90's to almost lily white north Idaho
north of the C'dA Reservation, and the boom in second home/retirement
homes in the ski/river/lake areas of the state as the baby boom
generation reaches it's economic if not age
maturity.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">There are
great challenges facing us. A city council and mayor who have been in
office for less than six months did not create our problems. Unlike
Donovan, I remain hopeful they are able and willing to face them.
Thanks Jerry for summing them up so succinctly.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font face="Times New Roman">Mark S.</font><br>
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