Randy Stapilus

Carlton

Editor and Publisher at Times-News (Idaho)

Writing and publishing in the Northwest

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Lawmaker proposes autonomous regions over redrawing state boundaries - Port Townsend Leader

1 day ago | ptleader.com | Randy Stapilus

The idea of Greater Idaho — splitting off most of eastern Oregon to join with the state of Idaho — isn’t going to fly. It won’t happen. So here’s another idea: The Autonomous Area of eastern Oregon. And Western too, for good measure. This concept was not invented in the deep recesses of a pundit’s mind. It comes from a recently introduced piece of legislation by a Republican lawmaker in the state of Washington. Washington has a regional dynamic similar to Oregon.
Autonomous in Oregon: A new spin on rural-urban divide

2 days ago | mckenzieriverreflectionsnewspaper.com | Randy Stapilus

The idea of Greater Idaho — splitting off most of eastern Oregon to join with the state of Idaho — isn’t going to fly. It won’t happen. So here’s another idea:The Autonomous Area of Eastern Oregon. And Western too, for good measure. This concept was not invented in the deep recesses of a pundit’s mind. It comes from a recently introduced piece of legislation by a Republican lawmaker in the state of Washington. Washington has a regional dynamic similar to Oregon.
Autonomous in Oregon: A new spin on rural-urban divide

2 days ago | lakecountyexam.com | Randy Stapilus

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Autonomous in Oregon: A new spin on rural-urban divide

3 days ago | washingtonstatestandard.com | Randy Stapilus

The idea of Greater Idaho — splitting off most of eastern Oregon to join with the state of Idaho — isn’t going to fly. It won’t happen. So here’s another idea:The Autonomous Area of eastern Oregon. And Western too, for good measure. This concept was not invented in the deep recesses of a pundit’s mind. It comes from a recently introduced piece of legislation by a Republican lawmaker in the state of Washington. Washington has a regional dynamic similar to Oregon.
Stapilus: Who's being undermined?

5 days ago | idahopress.com | Randy Stapilus

Here’s a peculiarity: The Trump administration blasting down on a lawsuit filed by Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador and two other Republican AGs on a hot-button issue with national import: Abortion. Why would this happen? And no less significantly, what will Labrador do about it? The legal case on abortion law emerged last October, though its roots run older. After Roe v.
COMMENTARY: Autonomous in Oregon: A new spin on rural-urban divide

6 days ago | highway58herald.org | Randy Stapilus

Randy Stapilus has researched and written about Northwest politics and issues since 1976 for a long list of newspapers and other publications. A former newspaper reporter and editor, and more recently an author and book publisher, he lives in Carlton.
Opinion: Watch it closely and warily

6 days ago | idahostatejournal.com | Randy Stapilus

Years after the fact, Phil Batt would recall that when he became Idaho’s governor in 1995, “the nuclear waste issue hit me right between the eyes.”It sure did. He was taking over the office and the issue from Cecil Andrus, who had gone to court and taken other action blocking shipments of nuclear waste from entering the state, primarily around the Idaho National Laboratory (as it’s now called) site.
Autonomous in Oregon: A new spin on rural-urban divide

1 week ago | oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Randy Stapilus |Julia Shumway

The idea of Greater Idaho — splitting off most of eastern Oregon to join with the state of Idaho — isn’t going to fly. It won’t happen. So here’s another idea:The Autonomous Area of Eastern Oregon. And Western too, for good measure. This concept was not invented in the deep recesses of a pundit’s mind. It comes from a recently introduced piece of legislation by a Republican lawmaker in the state of Washington. Washington has a regional dynamic similar to Oregon.
Autonomous in Oregon: A new spin on rural-urban divide

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Randy Stapilus

Pronghorn antelope roam near Rome in eastern Oregon. (Photo by Laura Tesler/Oregon Capital Chronicle)The idea of Greater Idaho — splitting off most of eastern Oregon to join with the state of Idaho — isn’t going to fly. It won’t happen. So here’s another idea:The Autonomous Area of Eastern Oregon. And Western too, for good measure. This concept was not invented in the deep recesses of a pundit’s mind.
Watch nuclear waste closely and warily

1 week ago | magicvalley.com | Randy Stapilus

Idaho House Bill 415 fits so neatly into a central piece of political rhetoric that the surprise is that its progress at the legislature has been slowed as much as it has; which is to say, not much. The bill provides that any public school employee—who obtains an enhanced concealed weapons permit, not terribly hard to get—who wants to carry a firearm or other “deadly weapon” to school can do it, whether local administrators and school boards like it or not.