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Petitions target tuition, smoking

A statewide signature drive launched last Tuesday aims at lowering tuition at state colleges and universities through increasing Idaho’s cigarette tax. The drive is sponsored by the group StopTuitionHikes.com , which recently completed ballot language review and titling through the Idaho Attorney General’s office. Now it will begin to gather signatures in hopes that its ballot initiative — to substantially lower tuition rates at public universities and college — will be the first to appear on a statewide ballot since 2006/Keith Cousins, Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.

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