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Suppose U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., commandeers a government plane. She fills it with representatives of the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and singer Carole King. Then they fly out to Idaho and other Western states to discuss how to pass the massive Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act - which would transform 24 million acres of federal lands into designated wilderness areas. Nobody on that plane speaks for the Idaho rancher, logger or miner who would be dispossessed by that legislation. … You wouldn’t like it, right? So how is it any different when advocates of Idaho’s phosphate mining industry do the same thing?/Marty Trillhaase, Lewiston Tribune. More here.
Question: Are you concerned about the trip taken by Lt. Gov. Brad Little, AG Lawrence Wasden, and others on the Mining Industry’s dime?
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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HonestGeorge on October 15 at 12:19 p.m.
Yes. What is really frustrating about the whole aftermath is that our state leaders see no reason for the criticism. There is only one voice heard in Boise and it must always be able to pass through the narrow band-pass provided by IACI and the business community of Idaho. “What’s good for General Bullmoose, is good for America!” (and Idaho).