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Idaho Students Lose Basic Protection

Posted by DFO

Dec. 16, 2009 2:16 p.m. • 0 comments

What is a basic protection? It is a minimum standard of treatment. We have the minimum wage, which may not be adequate, but we can rely on it. Governments have a constitution as outline of behavior. We even have a bill of rights, a promise of protection on certain issues. And we HAD a tuition cap in Idaho. A minimum promise that the State Board of Education gave us about *even the possibility* of tuition increases remaining below 10% in one year. They have revoked their promise this week in Twin Falls. Asking to remove the 10% tuition cap, even if it is just for 1 year, is asking us to give up our right of basic protection from excessive budget increases/DianaMarie, 43rd State Blues. More here.

Worst run city in America/Free In Idaho!
Just too far/F-words
Tax fairness/IdaBlue
Boise, Vegas suffer together/Kevin Richert
Economics?/Morialekafa
Regressivity/Randy Stapilus
Yellowstone filled to brim with wolves/Rocky Barker
3-fer: Treasure Valley blogs, and: Daily politics blog, and: Wednesday morning news/Treasured Valley

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.