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		<title>The health bill: NW votes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And how did the Northwest delegation vote on the health care bill? Well, it was party-line, with one exception.
The yes votes:
Washington: Inslee, Larsen, Baird, Dicks, McDermott, Smith.
Oregon: Wu, Bluemenauer, DeFazio, Schrader. 
The no votes:
Washington: Hastings, McMorris Rogers, Reichert.
Oregon: Walden.
Idaho: Minnick, Simpson. Minnick was the one Northwest Democrat to vote in opposition; all Republicans from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2010/03/21/the-health-bill-nw-votes/</link>
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		<title>A Washington difference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Oregon Legislature last year passed tax increases proposed by majority Democrats, two measures of which were placed on the ballot and upheld by voters in January. The political upshot of all that seems likely to lend some political support to the legislature&#8217;s Democrats; they seem unlikely, as matters stand, to lose many seats in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2010/03/21/a-washington-difference/</link>
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		<title>A health pretzel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The extent to which thinking about health policy has gotten twisted, on this day when a sweeping bill might be passed in the House, can be inferred from this quote from Representative Dave Reichert of Washington&#8217;s 8th, like all other congressional Republicans a no vote:
&#8220;As an old Sheriff I know that if you arrest someone, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2010/03/21/a-health-pretzel/</link>
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		<title>The Idaho rundown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No great shockers in the final closeout of candidate filings in Idaho &#8211; which ended at 5 p.m. today.
The closest thing to actual news on the last filing day probably was the announcement from former 1st District U.S. Representative Bill Sali, who had not enturely ruled out running for another term, that he will not, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2010/03/19/the-idaho-rundown/</link>
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		<title>A bashee of poor choice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Among other considerations: What can possibly be the political benefit from bashing an 11-year-old boy who has just lost his mother because of the high cost of, and her inability to buy into, the health care system.
The case of Marcellas Owens of Seattle is sad no matter the details &#8211; his mother&#8217;s death of an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2010/03/19/a-bashee-of-poor-choice/</link>
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		<title>The magic of private prisons</title>
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Back in August 2007, Idaho Governor C.L. &#8220;Butch&#8221; Otter held forth on the idea of coping with rising demand in the state for prison space, by using the wizardry of the marketplace, so business “can go out in the marketplace and kind of work their magic.” And Corrections Director Bent Reinke was quoted in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2010/03/18/the-magic-of-private-prisons/</link>
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		<title>Resume man, issues man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


Denny Heck

Craig Pridemore


Democratic activists around the country have been about as worked up, in both directions, about their own representatives in Congress as they were about Republicans (in one unilateral direction) before 2009. Are they on board with health care reform (and, notably, a public option) or not? Are they in favor of major financial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2010/03/17/resume-man-issues-man/</link>
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		<title>F-35, yes or no</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Idaho public officials have been jumping at the opportunity to pull in F-35 military aircraft, which would be based at Gowen Field at Boise. One indicator has been the Idaho Legislature, which passed (House unanimously, the Senate on voice vote) House Joint Memorial 10, urging the planes be based there. 
That would lead you suggest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2010/03/16/f-35-yes-or-no/</link>
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		<title>OR gov: An opening round</title>
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At the debate: John Kitzhaber (left), Bill Bradbury/Stapilus


The two main Demcratic candidates for Oregon governor, former Governor John Kitzhaber and former Secretary of State Bill Bradbury, have debated before and fairly recently. But this evening at the Multnomah County Courthouse was the first since filing for the office closed &#8211; since, you might say, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2010/03/15/or-gov-an-opening-round/</link>
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		<title>The Idaho roster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday candidate filings for office in Idaho yielded a few nuggets worth note here:
 There are now two Democrats filed to take on Republican Senator Mike Crapo, so he won&#8217;t be unopposed again in November as he was six years ago. But which will it be? Tom Sullivan of Tetonia, an unknown factor in state [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2010/03/15/the-idaho-roster/</link>
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