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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.
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JamesBond on February 04 at 8:55 a.m.
Cut budgets. Government in this country needs to fundamentally change. Our spending has been ridiculous for about a decade now. Huge annual increases. We need to rethink government.
I have no problem with saying that education and roads in Idaho are big needs. Yes, they are. However, we need to make the cuts elsewhere. We need to re-invent government. This is a new era.
There are many ways we could cut spending on roads and education without sacrificing the end users. In education, administrative costs are duplicated all over the state. We have too many school districts. We have too many administrators. With roads, we have too many “consultants” and too many government-imposed costs for permits. So, everything, including roads and education, has to be on the chopping block.