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Magicvalley.com C ITY BIDS FAREWELL TO C OURTNEY Dems, GOP square off in Slowdown Showdown Bedke: Giving in ALSO MOVING IN THE IDAHO to Democrats LEGISLATURE AG NUISANCE demands is not CLAIMS Farmers and an option ranchers will win new protections from nuisance By John Miller claims when Photos by DREW NASH/Times-News Associated Press writer expanding their Retiring Twin Falls City Manager Tom Courtney greets Rosalie Orton at his retirement party Thursday afternoon at the Herrett Center for Arts and operations in a Science in Twin Falls. Hundreds showed up to see Courtney off to retirement. BOISE — As the spat that s measure headed becoming known around the to Gov. C.L. Capitol as the “Slowdown “Butch” Otter for Courtney s Showdown” hit its second signature. Hundreds attend career in day, Democrats and Republi- Senate cans again went after each Republicans voted brief other in a style that befits 32-2 Thursday to siblings in the family car s expand Idaho’s retirement ceremony Employment backseat. “Right to Farm” with T.F.: Thursday morning s hear- law. MAIN 2 ing in the State Affairs Com- By Nick Coltrain showed up to his farewell cere- 1977-2011 (city manager mittee was another good ex- Times-News writer mony Thursday afternoon: A DRIVER’S ED ample of tit-for-tat politics. new rod, hand-made flies and an since 1980) City population: Democratic Rep. Phylis FUNDING Nowadays, Tom Courtney expenses-paid fishing trip were King of Boise was pushing a Idaho would no gets more animated when talk- among his going-away gifts. About 22,000 resolution to promote adop- longer help cover ing about steelhead fishing than Courtney, 63, has spent more when he tion as a state policy. But the cost of driver’s he does talking about a city he than half his life so far manag- started; it’s when fellow Democrat Rep. education classes helped manage for 34 years. ing the day-to-day operations now about Elfreda Higgins of Garden at public schools, He s not as good at catching of the city of Twin Falls. Basi- 44,000 City budget: City moved to immediately under a bill before the fish as he d like. But he looks cally its CEO, he served at the Retiring Twin Falls City Manager Tom send the measure to the the 2011 forward to the practice he ll get whim of the 32 council mem- Grew from House floor for a vote, Re- Legislature. in the near future, now that he bers and 11 mayors he s worked about Courtney, center, laughs during a slide publicans refused — even Republican law- doesn t have a city to run. with. $17 million to show about his tenure at his retirement though most GOP lawmak- makers advanced It s a well-known sentiment $48 million party Thursday afternoon at the Herrett ers support promoting alter- legislation among the hundreds who See COURTNEY, Main 3 Center for Arts and Science in Twin Falls. natives to possible abor- Thursday to strip tions. state funding from Democrats are forcing bills driver’s ed class- CENSUS 2010 : AGE on the House floor to be read es, essentially F&G names in their entirety. This delay ending a $125-per tactic is meant to pressure student subsidy. dominant GOP lawmakers MAIN 2 Where kids are in southern Idaho into holding hearings on a new director cigarette tax hike to shore up By Andrew Weeks City The release of 2010 data by the U.S. Census allows us to education and Medicaid, as well as a separate proposal to Times-News writer percentages shine light on population trends we can only guess at Acequia 27% between decades. The Times-News looked at the Albion 25% See SHOWDOWN, Main 3 Idaho wildlife has a new boss. percentage difference between people over 18 and under 18 Virgil Moore, 59, of Boise, has Bellevue 29% been named director of the Idaho Bliss 29% to find the highest -and fewest -concentrations of kids Buhl 29% Department of Fish and Game. in south central Idaho. Some of the highlights: Burley 32% ALSO MAKING NEWS The appointment was announced Carey 36% during a news conference Thurs- Castleford 26% day morning in Boise. Declo 36% County percentages “We re going to be able to hit Dietrich 41% No kids the ground run- Eden 28% ning fast and Fairfield 26% allowed? hard,” Moore said Filer 32% The towns of Sun Val- Gooding 30% Camas: Blaine: in the phone con- 24% ley and Ketchum had ference with re- Hagerman 24% 21% numbers significantly Hailey 29% porters, referring Hansen 34% beneath the state av- to his knowledge erage.Sun Valley had Hazelton 34% Gooding: Mini- about department only 12 percent of res- Heyburn 30% 30% Lincoln: 33% doka: functions. Moore Hollister 30% 29% idents under the age He replaces Cal Jerome 33% of 18,while Ketchum Groen, who has retired. Moore Ketchum 14% had 14 percent. previously was deputy director of Kimberly 32% Jerome: 31% field operations, a position he s Malta 33% Replica of historic Idaho held since 2007. Minidoka 29% Murtaugh 24% Moore comes to his new posi- Kid boom biplane going to Florida Oakley 36% Twin tion faced with challenges, but Cassia: Dietrich had the high- Paul 29% A flight-worthy replica of a biplane built to com- says he has a few goals to help Falls: 33% est concentration of Richfield 29% memorate Idaho s first powered flight in 1910 has tackle them. He described the de- 27% kids under 18.More Rupert 30% been sold and is headed to Florida. It took more partment s overall performance than 40 percent of Shoshone 29% than two years for Lewiston-area airplane en- score as an eight. Sun Valley 12% the town's residents thusiasts to build the replica of the aircraft. Twin Falls 27% are still school age. See DIRECTOR, Main 3 Wendell 31% Lower kid-to-adult ratio Higher kid-to-adult ratio Main 3
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The U.S. Bureau of Land The Twin Falls District large. reference from any repre- Management is looking to has two openings for ranch- Individuals may nominate sented interests or organiza- fill five open positions on its ing, energy, timber, off- themselves or others.Nomi- tions, a completed back- Twin Falls District Resource highway vehicle or com- nees must be residents of the ground information nomi- Advisory Council. mercial recreation represen- district and will be evaluated nation form, and any other Buhl to pursue levy RACs are composed of tatives; two openings for on their training, education information that speaks to citizens chosen for their ex- members of environmental, and knowledge of the coun- the nominee’s qualifica- pertise in natural resource archaeological, historical, cil’s geographical area. They tions. issues — conservationists, dispersed-recreation or wild should demonstrate a com- Nominations are due by issue election May 17 ranchers, outdoor recre- horse and burro groups; and mitment to consensus- May 2 to Heather Tiel-Nel- ationists, government offi- one opening for elected offi- building and collaborative son, 736-2352 or Times-News year. If passed, it would cials and others — and ad- cials, state natural resource decision-making. [email protected]. cost property owners with- Buhl School District will in the district $60.53 per seek voter approval of every $100,000 of taxable $571,903 in local funding property owned. during the May 17 elec- “This is the amount we House to Idaho Senate votes to limit tions. need just to continue to op- The one-year supple- erate,”Superintendent By- mental levy issue would ron Stutzman said. “Oth- fund the district’s mainte- erwise there will need to be debate agricultural nuisance claims nance and operations costs a serious butchering of this during the 2011-12 school district.” BOISE (AP) — Farmers dubbed a nuisance if they ing Sen. Nicole LeFavour of cutting and ranchers will win new weren’t nuisances when Boise expressed concern protections from nuisance they began operations — about hurting local com- claims when expanding even if they expand. munities’ abilities to man- their operations in a meas- As Idaho’s rural land- age odor,including from ex- What you didn’t driver’s ed ure headed to Gov. C.L. scape fills with encroaching panding dairies. She still “Butch”Otter for signature. suburbia, Sen. Tim Corder voted for the bill. By Jessie L. Bonner Senate Republicans voted argued the need to protect Corder says local officials Associated Press writer 32-2 Thursday to expand existing farmland and op- will still use existing regula- know about Idaho’s “Right to Farm”law. erations that sit on it re- tions, including those gov- BOISE — Idaho would no Under the bill,agricultur- mains. erning smells,to make land- longer help cover the cost of al operations can’t be Urban Democrats includ- use decisions. Diamondfield Jack driver’s education classes at public schools, under a bill before the 2011 Legislature. iamondfield Jack YOU Republican lawmakers didn’t do it.That’s advanced legislation Thurs- Dhardly news,but DON’T SAY day to strip state funding Burley resident Clifford from driver’s ed classes, es- Hanks has some fascinat- Steve Crump sentially ending the $125- ing insights into how per student subsidy for pro- sheepherders Daniel Cum- grams that have been of- mings and John Wilson took it as evidence,but it fered through Idaho’s public were gunned down in the later disappeared. schools since 1948.The bulk South Hills in what became Davis was an immediate of the money would be redi- the most famous murder suspect because of the Tol- rected into a public school case in south-central Idaho man shooting,and he was rainy day account. history. arrested in Arizona Terri- The changes would leave “My sister found an old tory trying to flee to Mexi- either students or schools to document in a trunk be- co.Tried and convicted in pick up the slack. Idaho’s longing to my great- Albion,Davis was sen- wannabe teen drivers al- grandmother that relates tenced to hang on June 4, ready pay $180 to $200 of some of the story of mur- 1897,but reprieved on the the total $325 cost of driver’s ders that happened in 1896 brink of his execution be- ed classes,according to law- in the Oakley-Albion area,” cause two other men had makers behind the measure. Hanks said. confessed. Republican Rep. Steve According to Hanks,the After Davis had exhaust- Thayn of Emmett contends document was handwrit- ed his appeals,another ex- his bill aims to spur debate ten in pencil on old paper ecution date was scheduled about education spending. and held together with a for July 3,1901.But the “It’s a matter of priori- pin; he’s unsure whether Board of Pardons post- ties,” he said. “Should we his great-grandmother poned it until July 17.Just continue to subsidize each copied it or it was given to before he was to hang, student that takes driver’s In our new her.It’s a first-person ac- Davis’sentence was training from a public count by sheepherder Ted changed to life imprison- school or reallocate those Severe,who discovered the ment. funds back into the class- bodies of Cummings and “It has been told that the room?” Wilson.(Hanks has posted last time Diamondfield was Student fees covered it on his blog, standing on the gallows Inpatient roughly half the total Masterbias.wordpress.com) when the rider came with $2.3 million cost of public Diamondfield Jack Davis his stay of execution,”Se- driver’s education courses was an itinerant Virginian vere wrote. in Idaho schools last year. who kicked around the Davis was moved to the The state reimbursed school West before the turn of the state prison in Boise and districts for the remaining 20th century,spending eventually pardoned by Rehabilitation $1.3 million, at a rate of $125 most of his time mining. Gov.Frank W.Hunt. per student enrolled in the But after a failed prospect- “The general public felt training courses, using ing venture in Silver City, that justice had been meted money collected from dri- unit, life can begin again. Davis hired on with the out to the right man,”Se- ver’s license fees. Sparks-Harrell cattle com- vere wrote of Davis.“But I The Republican-domi- pany — a massive opera- among others was glad nated House Education tion that ran livestock when the news came that With state-of-the-art equipment and a Committee advanced along the Idaho-Nevada he had at long last been Thayn’s bill on a party-line border. pardoned.” specially designed facility, our skilled staff vote. At the time, there was a Severe ends his saga with Critics, primarily De- will be even better equipped to help patients range war brewing be- a chilling anecdote. mocrats, contend the legis- tween cattlemen and “After the trial had left lation jeopardizes access to restore function and health following stroke, sheepherders over disput- the front pages and had public driver’s training ed grazing land. It was been forgotten by many,a courses and will put the cost disease, and trauma. Davis’ job to keep the man who worked for the out of reach for some fami- flocks out of cow country, cattle company used to lies. and after a confrontation come and talk to me,”Se- “Our rural students are that led to the wounding vere wrote.“This man driving and they have a lot of a shepherd named Bill seemed to have a great of responsibilities, especial- Tolman,Davis was on the weight on his mind and ly in our farming areas. They run. But he began working conscience,especially need to have the training,” for Sparks-Harrell again when liquor had a little the said Democratic Rep. Donna the following year and al- best of him.The gist of his Pence of Gooding. most immediately,Cum- conversation went like this, State law requires anyone mings and Wilson were and it was always the same: under age 17 applying for a found dead in their sheep “‘I never harmed you, driver’s license to complete wagon. did I Ted?’ a driver-training program. Severe found their bod- “I have seen the man About 10,000 students took ies in late February 1896. with tears in his eyes.He’d public driver’s ed courses in Wilson had been shot in go on: Idaho school districts last the mouth with a .44 cal- “‘I saw that murder,Ted, year, according to the state iber bullet fired from a .45 it was horrible,the bloodi- Department of Education. caliber gun,and Cum- est thing I ever saw.We Supporters of the changes mings was hit in the ab- drawed straws to see who included operators of pri- domen and left to die.Shell did the killing,Ted,I was vate driver’s ed businesses, casings littered the site. lucky I didn’t have to do it who contend the subsidies In the waistband of and Ted you was going to be for public driver’s ed pro- Cummings’trousers,Se- killed too but you was gone. grams create an uneven vere found a note — written “‘I never harmed you, playing field. Private dri- with the head of a bullet.It Ted,did I?’” ver’s ed courses cost be- began “If I die,”and then tween $325 and $350, law- the handwriting trailed off. Steve Crump is the Times- makers said. The Cassia County sheriff News Opinion editor. One vision for recovery close to home. Circulation Director Robert Ronco . .735-3327 TIMES-NEWS Circulation phones open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily and 6 to 10 a.m. on weekends for questions ONE St. Luke’s. PUBLISHER about delivery, new subscriptions and vacation John Pfeifer ...... 735-3345 stops. If you don’t receive your paper by 6:30 a.m., call the number for your area NEWSROOM before 10 a.m. for redelivery. 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From across. Democrats had an oppor- Davlin s latest blog post: “What we have done is tunity to take their battle made legislators uncom- beyond the procedural and They think my lug- fortable,” Rusche said drop a real stink bomb dur- gage is in Hong Kong Thursday afternoon. ing the debate over a pro- and will be here in Kath- “That s not necessarily a posal to extend Idaho s mandu tomorrow,“maybe, bad thing.” 6 percent sales tax rebate to probably.”I m really miss- Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter alternative energy compa- ing the anti-nausea medi- told reporters he d leave it nies. cine and the clean clothes up to legislators to decide With 25 conservative right now....The drive how long they felt was ap- Republicans against it, from the airport to the hotel ASHLEY SMITH/Times-News propriate to meet to resolve there were enough De- was the biggest culture Janel Jackman, 9, plays baseball with Troy Jackman Thursday afternoon at Dierkes Lake Park near Twin the public s business. mocrats to kill the meas- shock of my life.There are Falls. Today s forecast for the Magic Valley should welcome outdoor play, as mostly sunny conditions But Otter, who made ure, which would have no traffic rules,and al- holding the line on taxes a been a blow to Bedke, who though most people stick to with daytime highs in the upper 60s are expected. key theme in his 2010 re- helped negotiate a com- the left side of the road, election campaign after promise on that bill. They they have no problems his failed 2009 bid to hike might have used that as a driving in the other lane gasoline taxes and vehicle bargaining chip, in ex- and into oncoming traffic. Director registration fees, clearly change for being given ...I had my first experience wasn t excited about the hearings on their bills. Continued from Main 1 with load shedding — or “It s not just about He was selected to his Democrats push for hik- After all,Republicans the when the power company “I would like to see us at a wolves but about preda- new post out of a pool of six ing the cigarette tax by previous evening weren t turns off the electricity in 10,”he said.“I would be sat- tors,”he said. “Those pred- finalists, including three $1.25, from 57 cents a pack. above killing a Democrat- certain parts of the city isfied with a 9.5.” ators are here to stay. We ve other internal candidates. “What about the people sponsored measure — to during shortages.Sitting in “The economy is down,” got to understand and work In a news release Thurs- who because of obesity benefit disabled children — my dark hotel he added. “One of the to manage them.” day, Gov. C.L. “Butch” Ot- have health care problems, to protest the minority s room for an things we ve got to do is As part of courting more ter thanked Groen for his probably more so or equal delay tactics. hour was pretty make sure our organization extensive conversations four years as director of Fish to what we re suffering in When a reporter pointed awesome,es- is financially sound.” with sportsmen, Moore and Game. tobacco-related illnesses?” this out, Rusche said his pecially be- Ways Moore plans to hopes to connect with the “Virgil has some big Otter said. “Where do you caucus wouldn t have cause my help make that happen in- younger crowd through so- shoes to fill,” Otter said. end that discussion? You wanted the rebates, worth flashlight is in clude tackling wildlife is- cial media and other new “But given his long experi- have to start with all of it. tens of millions for wind, the suitcase sues and opening more di- technology. ence at the department, I You can t just single out geothermal and other al- that maybe, alogue with sportsmen, in- “That s the mindset believe he can ably handle one product.” ternative energy develop- probably cluding organizing a state we ve got to get ourselves these new responsibili- Giving in to Democratic ers, to be sacrificed as a po- will come wildlife congress made up into. That s the candy jar I ties.” demands isn t an option, litical hostage. tomor- of sportsmen and conser- want my hands in,”he said. “This is family,” Moore said House Assistant Ma- “We could gum things row.” vation groups. Moore s career includes said. “I m looking forward jority Leader Scott Bedke, up,but we won t do it to the Moore said he wants to having served as director of to working with that family R-Oakley. extent that it undermines evaluate the management the Oregon Department of and the extended family of “You re just not going to good public policy,”Rusche of elk and mule deer popu- Fish and Wildlife, and in sportsmen.” be forced into going there,” said. “We re protesters, not Read the rest of Davlin s lations — Fish and Game s Idaho as Fish and Game s he said. anarchists.” blog and post comments at “bread and butter,” he said chief of fisheries and head Andrew Weeks may be Still, Bedke didn t be- Magicvalley.com/nepal — and confront the wolf of education and informa- reached at aweeks@magic- grudge the minority party management issue. tion. valley.com or 735-3233. for employing what limit- CENTURY STADIUM 5 678-7142 www.centurycinema5.com Shows Nightly 7:15 & 9:20 Matinees Sat. 2:00 & 4:10 Replica of historic Idaho biplane going to Florida Rango PG Johnny Depp in A Hilarious Animated Comedy/Adventure Shows Nightly 7:20 & 9:20 LEWISTON (AP) — A ton Tribune. Wash., who said Fantasy of Matinees Sat. 2:00 & 4:00 flight-worthy replica of a bi- “We were hoping it would Flight has another version of Diary of A Wimpy Kid 2 PG plane built to commemorate stay in Lewiston, obvious- the Curtiss Pusher from A Family Comedy Idaho s first powered flight ly” Otey said,adding the of- England that was flown by Shows Nightly 7:15 & 9:15 in 1910 has been sold and is fer made by Weeks was too Weeks. Matinees Sat. 2:00 & 4:00 headed to Florida. good to turn down. “It was “He has a fantastic muse- HOP PG A Fun Animated Family Comedy The replica 1909 Herring- considerably more than um and is a good pilot, a Shows Nightly 7:30 & 9:20 Curtiss Pusher Model D is anything we had been able to world acrobatic champion, Matinees Sat. 2:00 & 4:00 going to the Fantasy of Flight find locally. Wilson said. Source Code PG-13 at Polk City in central Flori- He said it took more than Otey said the Idaho plane An Action/Thriller da after the attraction s two years for local airplane will likely remain at the Shows Nightly 7:20 & 9:35 founder, Kermit Weeks, enthusiasts to build the Lewiston-Nez Perce County Matinees Sat. 2:00 & 4:15 Sucker Punch PG-13 purchased it for $60,000. replica of the aircraft that Regional Airport for six An Action/Fantasy/Adventure “Most of his planes are gave Idaho its first powered months before being BURLEY THEATRE maintained in airworthy flight on Oct. 13, 1910, at the shipped south. All Seats $2.00 Everynight AP photo condition and every day they fairgrounds in Lewiston in He said hundreds of thou- Open Fri. - Tues. each week Dean Wilson of Clarkston, Wash., and Jim Otey of Lewiston stand in fly for people who come to northern Idaho. sands of people will likely Nightly at 7:30 & 9:30 the theme park,”James Otey One of those enthusiasts view the plane at its new front of a replica of the Herring-Curtiss Pusher biplane in August True Grit PG-13 of Lewiston told the Lewis- is Dean Wilson of Clarkston, home. 2010 in Lewiston. A Great Western Adventure ESPRIT CONSTRUCTION good employees” — a trade- for the expensive system and make it in the job for 30 www.buildingsbyesprit.com Courtney mark not a lot of communi- saving the city more than $22 years. It was a risk just pro- Garage with Continued from Main 1 ties can claim,he added. million in the process. moting him from assistant One story he recounts is Clow also attributed city manager then, as a Upper Floorr In his time, he s overseen from last November: A water Courtney s emphasis on ex- young professional who 3-CAR 2-CAR triple-digit layoffs of city line broke on Falls Avenue amining options as the rea- “looked like a kid right out of $ $ staff when the state changed the night before Thanksgiv- son the latter survived in his college,”Smith joked. 16,300 12,400 municipal tax structure, the ing, a frigid time when tem- job for so long. The average “It was just a leap of faith, updating of the city s sewage peratures barely hovered city manager stays in the job but we made it,and it was the Since 1987 Subject to local treatment plant after it was above zero. for less than eight years; the best decision I ever made on License #RCE-25045 $18,300 building codes hit with numerous federal “I m standing at the top typical city management ca- City Council,”Smith said. CALL NOW: 208-316-2146 fines for polluting the Snake with lots of clothes on and reer is for less than 20, ac- It was a decision with 30 COMPLETELY BUILT ON YOUR LEVEL LOT INCLUDING CONCRETE AND LABOR River, and the securing of the I m shivering,and here we ve cording to the International years of direct impact, with city s water rights for got guys in the hole with City Managers Association. ripples to be felt in Twin Falls decades to come. running water and they re Courtney would always for decades to come. But to hear him tell it, it was just intent on fixing this give the City Council options Now, former Assistant SUMMER IS COMING the luck of working with a pool break,” Courtney said. “And — sometimes making his City Manager Travis Roth- LOSE UP TO ONE of talented city workers that I ve got stories like that from preferred path obvious, but weiler will step up to take the POUND PER DAY overcame those obstacles, not every department.” ultimately letting the council city s top position, succeed- FRIENDS & FAMILY direct actions on his part — il- But the stories he doesn t make the decision — and deal ing Courtney. LOSE TOGETHER lustrating why “humble” is recall, or take credit for, in- with the politics of the deci- In retirement, Courtney BUY 2 GET among the most frequent clude when federal law in the sion, Clow said. Courtney will spend more time visiting traits others who know Court- early 1990s demanded a also never shot down a coun- his grandkids in Spokane, ONE FREE ney ascribe to him. $25 million filtration system cil member s idea,he added. Wash., and Kimberly, and Reshape your body! • Lose your belly fat! No exercise required! “I don t know if it s being for the city s water source “He knows that if there s a better acquaint himself with • Homeopathic HCG! humble or being realistic,”he because it was classified as will, there s a way to get it the intricacies of steelhead INCLUDED: said. “I ve never felt it was surface water. Councilman done,”Clow said. fishing. But Twin Falls is still Recipes,p , Weightg Chart,, Shoppingpp g right for one person to take Lance Clow directly credits State Rep. Leon Smith, the only place he says he ever List & SampleSample Diet credit for what took a lot of Courtney s ability to get peo- who was Twin Falls mayor wants to call home, and is Come people.” ple to examine all the options when Courtney was hired as where he ll continue to live. In Local government is a as the reason the city decided city manager in 1980, said he Now, he jokes, it s up to Today! KEEPING MAGIC VALLEY HEALTHY SINCE 1993 team sport, Courtney said, to drill new wells at the same wasn t thinking at the time Rothweiler to keep it that 1111 BLUE LAKES BLVD. N. • 733-1411 and Twin Falls has “very source, eliminating the need about if Courtney would way. Let us guide you in Look who’s 90! ESTATE SALE protecting your family. 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When spite asoline prices have been steadily climb- Ging for several months,and Americans are gets in the way feeling the pain at the pump. The possible culprits are as plentiful as the proposed so- lutions.But what is really of good driving prices up? And what,if anything,can be done about it? Let’s take a moment to fill up on infor- government mation about our fuel. “Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.” — Sen. J. William Fulbright, The Arrogance of Power (1966) Robert Rapier ow let’s see if we understand this cor- rectly: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xx xx 1. Fighting in Libya is xxFor 52 of the 57 Republican mem- sending gas prices higher. bers of the Idaho House of Represen- Libya is not a big enough tatives,pok- global oil supplier for the ingN a finger in the eye of op- battles there to have a position Democrats is more meaningful effect on gas Our view: prices.We import less than important than helping dis- In gas prices for years. They’re 50,000 barrels per day from “ ... why are gas prices up? Though Gadhafi’s called Europeans. abled children with special the House of Libya — a tiny fraction of the While U.S. gasoline heads needs get access to early in- Representative 9.2 million barrels per day fate is largely irrelevant to the oil market, toward $4 per gallon, Euro- tervention services. the United States imported s, the first unrest throughout the greater Middle East peans have been paying A Senate-passed bill to do in 2010.Worldwide,of the much higher prices for years that failed 52-15 in the House session of the 86 million barrels consumed is not.” because of high taxes on fu- on Wednesday in retaliation globally each day less than 2 61st Idaho el. This month in Britain, for Democrats’stalling tac- percent come from Moam- trader is playing a danger- R-Ky.,says EPA regulations gas hit $9.76 per gallon. Be- tics as the Legislature nears Legislature has mar Gadhafi’s regime. ous game. are a “back-door national cause gas is so dear,Eu- adjournment.Republicans degenerated So why are gas prices up? The SPR exists to buy energy tax” that pushes rope’s per capita energy use acknowledge that the sole Though Gadhafi’s fate is into brawl time in a true supply emer- prices up. Former Alaska is half that of the United reason it didn’t pass was be- largely irrelevant to the oil gency.If we use it as a polit- governor Sarah Palin says States, leaving Europe less between market,unrest throughout cause the legislation’s spon- ical tool to keep voters hap- the White House drilling vulnerable to oil price the greater Middle East is sor,Rep.Phylis King of Boise, siblings in the py by stemming rising gas moratorium shows Presi- shocks yet not undermining not.The Persian Gulf region has a “D”behind her name. family car s prices, we may be forced to dent Barack Obama’s “cul- its citizens’ standard of liv- produces almost 24 million In an effort to get hearings buy back oil at even higher pability in the high gas ing. backseat. barrels of oil per day,more on their proposals for a ciga- prices. prices hurting Americans.” The United States, built than 25 percent of global oil rette tax hike and a referen- 3. Oil companies produce But even if domestic sup- on cheap oil, is much less consumption.The Arab dum on public schools chief less in the spring to make plies were developed, densely populated than the spring that has brought Tom Luna’s education reforms,House Democrats on gas prices increase. American presidents could- Old World, with more wide- protests to Egypt,Saudi Wednesday began forcing bills to be read in their en- Almost every year,gaso- n’t really control oil prices. open spaces to traverse. But Arabia,Bahrain and Yemen tirety,a tactic meant to slow progress to a crawl. line prices rise in the spring. The U.S. government has that doesn’t mean we can’t makes markets nervous,and That’s a rather juvenile strategy unlikely to get De- At the same time, refineries estimated that there are 18 embrace some of the things when markets fret over a mocrats what they want,and it’s costing taxpayers produce less fuel. This isn’t billion barrels of oil in the that have helped Europeans possible disruption to oil $30,000 for each day the Legislature in session. because oil companies want outer continental shelf of keep their gasoline bills supplies,gas prices rise — to keep inventories low to the lower 48 states that are down — such as high-speed But that’s no excuse for Republicans holding special- whether the disruption ma- drive prices higher.It’s be- off-limits to development. rail, public transportation needs kids hostage. terializes or not. The three-ring circus that has become the first ses- cause what’s in our gasoline That may sound like a lot, and green energy. sion of the 61st Idaho Legislature continued Thursday 2. Tapping the Strategic — specifically,butane — but it is only about 2 1/2 In fact, Americans have when the House State Affairs Committee spiked King’s Petroleum Reserve is a changes from season to sea- years of supply for the Unit- shown that they can adjust proposed resolution to promote adoption as state poli- smart way to reduce gas son. ed States, and it would take their behavior when faced cy,despite the fact that most GOP lawmakers support prices. Butane is a cheap ingredi- several years to allocate with sticker shock at the promoting alternatives to abortion. The U.S.government ent in gasoline that boils at leases and drill exploratory pump. As gas prices rose These are the actions of a Republican Caucus that maintains a 727 million- low temperatures. In winter, wells. Even if the estimated from $2.31 per gallon in barrel oil reserve — 38 days’ believes it’s accountable only to itself. this isn’t a problem. But in 10 billion barrels of oil in the 2005 to $3.30 per gallon in worth at current levels of summer,butane evaporates Arctic National Wildlife 2008, sales of the Toyota Idahoans don’t ask a lot of their lawmakers: fiscal re- consumption — to protect sponsibility,integrity and a willingness to do their from gas, polluting the air Refuge were available for Prius eclipsed those of the against potential supply while leaving us with less Ford Explorer,and public homework and listen. development, today’s policy disruptions. But just about fuel in the tank than we paid decisions would have no transit use reached a 50- Oh,and one other thing: every time prices rise, for.As temperatures rise, impact on gasoline supplies year high. When it costs $30 Behaving like adults. politicians want to access refineries replace butane for as much as a decade. to fill up a Geo Metro with the oil in the reserve to in- with more costly ingredi- 5. Americans can’t live regular,all options are on TIMES-NEWS crease supply and bring ents and draw down winter without cheap gas. the table. prices back down. inventories just as beach Yes, Americans love to John Pfeifer, publisher Josh Awtry, editor Steve Crump, Opinion editor But tapping the SPR season begins. drive, and Americans love Robert Rapier is the chief makes the government an 4. The Obama adminis- cheap gas. But across an technology officer of Merica The members of the editorial board and writers of oil speculator,and any na- tration is driving up gas ocean, there’s a continent International. He wrote this editorials are John Pfeifer, Josh Awtry, Steve Crump, tion running record deficits prices. filled with people a lot like commentary for The Wash- Bill Bitzenburg and Mary Lou Panatopoulos. that becomes a commodity Sen. Mitch McConnell, us who’ve lived with high ington Post. Understanding the true risks of nuclear energy France, Japan, Russia, Korea, China, India safety performance during energy.For reasons beyond n March 11, two the test in Japan, and how TMI but certainly influ- natural disasters READER and other nations witnessed TMI, understood we let that interpretation enced by it, we in the U.S. O struck Japan: a COMMENT it, interpreted it and chose to expand their use impact our energy deci- chose differently. 9.0-magnitude earthquake sions. Will we continue our All countries that use nu- and resultant 10-meter John of nuclear energy. For reasons beyond TMI practice of romanticizing or clear power as a key compo- tsunami. As the Japanese Grossenbacher demonizing energy tech- nent of their diverse energy people struggle with their but certainly influenced by it, we nologies? Will we consider portfolios well understand losses and the beginnings of Power Station to limit dam- in the U.S. chose differently. that all large-scale indus- that Fukushima Daiichi is recovery,our prayers are age to their reactors and trial activities have risks more serious than TMI. And with them. stored used fuel. More im- aged plants, and the costs of sure and whether the expo- and that the risk is never thoughtful questioning is Japan relies heavily on portantly,we’ve seen the evacuating the public with- sure was harmful. It’s im- zero? under way.What will these nuclear energy to generate nearly around-the-clock in a 12-mile radius. Most portant to compare those The 1979 reactor acci- other nations do after its electricity,with 54 reac- work they’ve performed to importantly,we must judge levels with exposure we all dent at Three Mile Island — there’s a better understand- tors nationwide providing minimize potential harm to the technology on how its get from natural sources by caused by a mechanical ing of the events in Japan nearly a third of its power. the public. defense-in-depth limited living on the surface of the malfunction and operator and the impacts on public The earthquake affected 11 In the U.S., we are wit- the public’s exposure to Earth, as well as exposure error,not near-simultane- health and safety? What of those reactors, which im- nessing and participating in harmful levels of radiation. that results from voluntary ous natural disasters — will we in this country do? mediately shut down. The two tests. The first is a test Radioactive gases and activities like flying in air- damaged one-half the re- Will our decision reflect a power station at Fukushima of nuclear energy technolo- particles were released and planes, undergoing X-rays, actor core and killed or in- reasoned, realistic approach Daiichi, the site of six reac- gy.How does this technol- high radiation fields created CT scans and other medical jured no one in the general to meeting ours and the tors, suffered the most se- ogy stand up to Mother Na- as a result of fuel damage in procedures that employ ra- public. France, Japan, Rus- world’s energy needs? vere blow from the quake ture’s worst? We as a nation three reactors and poten- diation and radioactive ma- sia, Korea, China, India and and tsunami. will evaluate this in a num- tially in one or more used terials for our benefit. other nations witnessed John Grossenbacher is We have all witnessed the ber of ways, including ex- fuel storage pools. We must The second test will be TMI, understood it, inter- president of Battelle Energy efforts of the operators of amining the cost of the loss understand how many peo- how we as a nation inter- preted it and chose to ex- Alliance and director of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear and disposal of the dam- ple received radiation expo- pret nuclear energy’s public pand their use of nuclear Idaho National Laboratory.
T HE LIGHTER SIDE OF POLITICS Doonesbury By Garry Trudeau Mallard Fillmore By Bruce Tinsley Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho OPINION Friday, April 1, 2011 Main 5 Despite the critics, TARP worked flect desirable oversight by ASHINGTON — Congress,the Government It isn’t often that Accountability Office and a the government W special Treasury inspector launches a major program general.But some criticisms that achieves its main goals at Robert are broad generalities that,on a tiny fraction of its estimat- Samuelson inspection,are highly sus- ed costs.That’s the story of pect.One common allega- TARP — the Troubled Assets and most important purpose tion is that TARP will en- Relief Program.Created in — was instantly unpopular. courage more reckless risk- October 2008 at the height of Most Americans,says Elliott, taking because big financial the financial crisis,it helped “believe that taxpayers spent firms know they’ll be bailed stabilize the economy,used $700 billion and got nothing out if their gambles backfire only $410 billion of its au- in return.” — a problem economists call thorized $700 billion and will What this ignores — aside “moral hazard.”Bankers keep be repaid most of that.The from being factually incor- profits but are protected Congressional Budget Office, rect — is that an alternative against losses,which are as- which once projected TARP’s being promoted at the time sumed by the public.This is a ultimate cost at $356 billion, was widespread nationaliza- serious issue,but TARP’s now says $19 billion.This tion of banks. The cost would legacy is actually the oppo- could go lower. have been many times high- site.During the crisis,huge You would hardly know. er; the practical problems losses were suffered by in- Almost everyone loves to would have been enormous. vestors in banks and financial hate TARP.It’s a favorite po- As it was,TARP invested institutions.It wasn’t pre- litical sport of liberals,con- $245 billion in banks (and dictable which would survive servatives,Republicans,De- about $165 billion into the and which wouldn’t — or on mocrats — and the public.A other programs).The extra what terms.The same would Bloomberg poll last October capital helped restore trust. be true in the future.Indeed, asked how TARP had affect- Meanwhile,the Federal Re- TARP’s extreme unpopulari- ed the economy.The results: serve increased its lending; ty compounds uncertainty, 43 percent said it weakened the Federal Deposit Insur- because it suggests that the economy; 21 percent said ance Corp.guaranteed politicians will recoil from it made no difference; only $350 billion of bank borrow- more bailouts.The moral 24 percent said it helped, ings.Banks resumed dealing hazard is more imagined than with 12 percent unsure one with each other because they real. way or another.Commenta- regained confidence that tors in newspapers from The commitments would be hon- Newsweek columnist Wall Street Journal to The ored. Robert Samuelson writes New York Times disparage Some TARP critiques re- about economics. TARP. Wrong. One lesson of the financial crisis is this: When the entire financial system succumbs to LeahLeah L.L. SmithSmi panic,only the government is wiwillll ccelebrateelebrate hher powerful enough to prevent a complete collapse.Panics 95th BirthdBirthdaya signify the triumph of fear. on Saturday, TARP was part of the process by which fear was overcome. April 2, 2011. It wasn’t the only part,but it was an essential part.With- You are invited to join out TARP,we’d be worse off with her to celebrate the today.No one can say occasion on Saturday, whether unemployment would be 11 percent or 14 per- April 2, from 3-5 p.m. at cent; it certainly wouldn’t be the Filer Baptist Church on 8.9 percent. Highway 30 in Filer, ID. That benefited all Ameri- No gifts please. cans.TARP,says Douglas El- liott of the Brookings Institu- tion,“is the best large federal Leah looklookss forwardward to you program to be despised by the public.” helping herhe celebratelebrate her The source of outrage is no 95th birthdaybirthd onn April 2nd. secret.Bankers are blamed for the crisis and reviled.The HappyHappy Birthday!thday! bank bailout — TARP’s first 2 Days ONLY SPRING CLEARANCE Friday & Saturday
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