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FRIDAY, JAN. 22, 2016

Cruz doesn't have health insurance 33 

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Thursday said he does not have healthcare insurance because of ObamaCare. “I’ll tell you, you know who one of those millions of Americans is who’s lost their healthcare because of ObamaCare? That would be me,” Cruz said at a rally in Manchester, N.H. “I don’t have healthcare right now.”

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'Virginity' question brings Trib jeers 

In his weekly Cheers & Jeers column, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune offers Jeers to Washington state Rep. Mary Dye, R-Pomeroy. Dye? She's the legislator who five representatives of the Palouse Teen Council on Planned Parenthood about their virginity status.

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Community Action Partnership food bank volunteer Ken Battjer, center, unloads food from one of their vans at the facility in Coeur d’Alene on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016. The food bank is raising money to replace two of the three vans, which range in age from 16 to 24 years old. (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)

Old vans threaten food bank mission 

The loading bay door rolls up inside the Community Action Partnership food bank warehouse in northwest Coeur d’Alene. Volunteers spring into action, unloading a van stuffed with donations from Albertsons, Safeway, Fred Meyer, Starbucks, Red Lobster and Davis Donuts. In come boxes of cantaloupe, yams,...

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Group mulls funding formula change 

An informal legislative “working group” will take on a complicated and time-consuming effort: revamping Idaho’s public school funding formula. News of the working group broke late Thursday afternoon, the 11th day of the 2016 legislative session. But it’s unlikely the group will produce any legislation this year.

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