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<p>Good Morning Visionaries,</p>
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<p>Last time I calculated the increase in UI tuition it was over 1100 percent since 1972, when I started teaching at the UI.</p>
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<p>The students should simply say: "Hell No, we won't pay!!!"</p>
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<p>Nick Gier, President, Idaho Federation of Teachers, AFT/AFL-CIO<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com <vision2020-bounces@moscow.com> on behalf of Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 18, 2014 3:22 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Moscow Vision 2020<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] More ground lost</font>
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<div style="">Courtesy of today's (April 18, 2014) Lewiston Tribune.</div>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style=""><b>JEERS</b> ... to the Idaho State Board of Education. If you want to know why college is being priced out of reach for moderate- and middle-income Idaho families,
just observe what took place in Moscow this week.</span></p>
<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style="">Even though legislators boosted higher education budgets by 6.2 percent, administrators sought more tuition - 2 percent from Lewis-Clark State College President Tony
Fernandez, 4.7 percent from University of Idaho President Chuck Staben.</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style="">Of course, this is taking place in a state where incomes are ranked next to dead last.</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style="">"Students are seriously considering not going to college because it is too expensive. Yes, financial aid is available - it is in the terms of debt," said State Board
member Rod Lewis of Boise. "Until we have the fortitude to keep pushing for more state help, it is on the backs of students. We need to figure out how we can become more cost efficient and reduce costs so we don't have to put it on the students."</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style="">Lewis and State Board President Don Soltman of Twin Lakes were outvoted. So the state board did what it always does. It shaved a few dollars off the UI's request and
called it good.</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style="">Then the board gave itself a pat on the back for, in the words of its news release, approving "tuition and fees ... at levels lower than requested and at the lowest
level in recent years."</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style="">Students now pay 47 percent of the cost of their instruction, up from 14 percent just 20 years ago. In Idaho, the average student is in hock more than $24,000. And
enrollments are faltering.</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style="">Nobody stopped this cycle of ratcheting up tuition a few percentage points here, a few more dollars there. Lawmakers neglected higher education. Administrators cared
more about budgets than student access. State board members split the difference.</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style="">But, please, spare us the self-congratulations.</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style=""><b>CHEERS</b> ... to state Sen. Dan Johnson, R-Lewiston. Alone among north central Idaho Republicans seeking election to the state Legislature, he has stood up to
the GOP's loyalty oath.</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style="">Republican apparatchiks insist that candidates swear fealty to the party platform, even with these warts:</span></p>
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<span style="">Eliminating your right to elect your own U.S. senator, handing that power back to state legislators.</span></li><li style="outline:0px; margin:0px; padding:0px; list-style:none outside none; float:none!important">
<span style="">Throwing the economy into chaos by eliminating the Federal Reserve.</span></li><li style="outline:0px; margin:0px; padding:0px; list-style:none outside none; float:none!important">
<span style="">Empowering self-serving politicians to gerrymander their legislative and congressional districts.</span></li><li style="outline:0px; margin:0px; padding:0px; list-style:none outside none; float:none!important">
<span style="">Closing the GOP primary to anyone who is not a card-carrying Republican .</span></li><li style="outline:0px; margin:0px; padding:0px; list-style:none outside none; float:none!important">
<span style="">Violating Idaho's Constitution by allowing tax dollars to flow to private and religious schools through tax credits.</span></li></ul>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style="">Among those who endorsed every wacky idea in that document were Rep. Thyra Stevenson, R-Lewiston, Sen.</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style="">Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood, Rep. Paul Shepherd, R-Riggin, Rep. Shannon McMillan, R-Silverton, and her primary election opponent, Shauna Hillman of Wallace, as well
as John Carlson of Moscow, who is challenging Sen. Dan Schmidt, D-Moscow, and Caroline Nilsson Troy of Genesee, who is seeking the House seat being vacated by Rep. Shirley Ringo, D-Moscow.</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style="">Rep. Cindy Agidius, R-Moscow, has yet to respond.</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style="">"When I chose to run for office, my ideals most nearly matched those of the Republican Party and that is why I chose to run as a Republican," Johnson wrote the GOP.
"However, I took an oath, as an Idaho state senator, to serve the people of Idaho. I take that responsibility very seriously and I take every vote in that same vein. Each time I am called upon to make a decision, I consider my own values, the ideals of the
Republican Party, the opinions of the people of Lewis and Nez Perce counties and, ultimately, the Idaho Constitution."</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style=""><b>JEERS</b> ... to former House Speaker Lawerence (Boss) Denney, R-Midvale. The most ethically challenged Idaho politician of our time has the temerity to cast aspersions
on the man he wants to succeed as secretary of state: Ben Ysursa.</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style="">Among four Republicans seeking the job, Denney's peeved that the incumbent lent his support to chief deputy Ada County Clerk Phil McGrane.</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style="">Foul, cried Denney. As the state's chief elections officer, Ysursa should stay neutral.</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style="">He'd never do such a thing, Denney said. Oh, please. Ysursa broke no precedent. His immediate predecessor, Pete T. Cenarrusa, endorsed Ysursa in 2002.</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style="">Leave it to Denney to heap hypocrisy to the steaming mound of political misdeeds that constitute his sorry record.</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style=""><b>JEERS</b> ... to Peter Goldmark, Washington's Department of Natural Resources public lands commissioner. In 2008, he portrayed Republican incumbent Doug Sutherland
as a tool of the timber companies and issued this pledge: "I will not accept money from the industries that I'll be regulating."</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style="">The Seattle Times reports timber and wood products companies have forked over about $100,000 to Goldmark in the last three years. That's about a fifth of Goldmark's
total campaign treasury and some of it comes from the same company he cast as a villain in his first campaign, Weyerhaeuser.</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style=""><b>CHEERS</b> ... to Monica Hopkins. Executive director of Idaho's American Civil Liberties Union office since 2008, Hopkins is off to serve the same role for the
ACLU's branch in Washington, D.C.</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style="">Under Hopkins, the ACLU took the lead in exposing how Corrections Corporations of America's mismanagement exacerbated inmate violence at the Idaho Correctional Center
near Boise. It helped stitch together a quilt of justice as seven Idaho cities, including Moscow, passed ordinances protecting the civil rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. The organization blocked attempts to cloak discrimination in
the name of religious freedom. It helped restore Medicaid coverage for the developmentally disabled. And it joined in the first reform of Idaho's criminal justice system in a generation.</span></p>
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<p style="outline:0px; margin:10px 0px 0px; padding:0px; float:none!important"><span style="">If she got that much done swimming upstream in Idaho's conservative political culture, who knows what she'll pull off in Washington, D.C.? - M.T.</span></p>
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<div><span style="">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div>
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<div><span style="">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div>
<div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style=""><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div>
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<div><span style="">Tom Hansen</span></div>
<div><span style="">Moscow, Idaho</span></div>
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<div><span style="">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div>
<div><span style="">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div>
<div><span style="">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div>
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