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"The United States has completely. neglected Latin America for eight years," said Brian Wampler, Boise State associate professor of political science. "Brazil's economy is booming, but who's benefiting from it?"
"It should not take six, seven, eight years to pass an Owyhee bill, to pass a BoulderWhite Clouds bill," [Rick Johnson] said. "I think that [Barack Obama] will bring to government a 'let's get moving' approach.""The federal government has a huge role to play in not standing in the way of local food," she said. "We like to think that we're so independent, but Idaho gets this huge amount of crop subsidy money from the fedeial government and much of that money comes with strings attached."See the full content of this document
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Boise Weekly's Obama Wishlist
Dear President Barack Obama: Welcome to the White House. Now don't scare us.
That's our first piece of advice to our new commander-in-chief.That's also the first time we've typed President Barack Obama. Today is your first day on the job, and while we grant you some time to learn the voicemail system, sign the last page of the employee handbook and find the snacks in the Oval Office break room, it's time to get to work.So the best thing you can do for us, Mr. President, as the leader of this great nation, is to end the steady stream of negative scary energy that has flowed from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for the past eight years.Even before your inauguration yesterday, we were pinching off that federal fire hose of fear; Americans are slowly letting out sighs of relief, releasing the tension in their shoulders and starting to get down with your hope thing.In his final attempt at scaring the shit out of us, your predecessor, ex-President George W. Bush (first time we've typed that, too) revea...See the full content of this document
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