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January 2007

Jan.1.06 - IACI Legislature Should Revisit Prop Tax

Jan.2.07 - Michael Burke Resigns NIC Post

Jan.3.07 - NICs Burke Plans To Leave

Jan.4.07 - Timing Right For Burke's Move

Jan.5.07 - Community Colleges, Med School Hopes May Be DOA

Jan.6.07 - As Elk Tax Issues Loom, Lawmakers Ask Can We Get Along

Jan.7.07 Boise Metro Chamber Asks For Support For Initiatives

Jan.7.07 - Don't Expect Surprises, Otter Aides Say Of Mon Speech

Jan.7.07 - Funding Will Be Key In Community College Debate

Jan.7.07 - Kustra 2-Year College Would Help Community

Jan.7.07 - Lawmakers Question Community College Super Majority Reg

Jan.7.07 - Let's Find A Way To Get A Community College Off The Ground

Jan.7.07 - Otter Should Set Priorities

Jan.8.07 - Our Community College Conundrum

Jan.9.07 - Otter Sets Good Tone For First Session

Jan.9.07 - Otter's Experience Shows In His New Outline For Idaho

Jan.9.07 - Otter's Models Budget Includes One Time Splurges

Jan.11.07 - Otter's Proposals In Line With CSI's Future Plans

Jan.11.07 - Time Has Ripened For Lower Tax Majority Vote

Jan.12.07 - Even 60 Percent For Community Colleges A Stretch

Jan.12.07 - Study Finds Colleges Have Local Approval Chamber Backs Community College

Jan.13.07 - College Plan Faces Hurdles On Path

Jan.13.07 - Opinions From Newspapers In Idaho And West On Community Colleges

Jan.14.07 - Community Colleges Could Be Tough Sell In Legislature

Jan.14.07 - Give Otter Credit For Tuition Aid Proposal

Jan.15.07 - Otter Gives It The Old College Try

Jan.15.07 - SW Idaho Community College Needed

December 2006

Dec.29.06 - Business Groups 'Legislative Agendas' Common Thread: Community Colleges

Dec.27.06 - Report From Education Department Offers Data On College Costs

Dec.25.06 - Lawmakers Want Voters To Approve School

Dec.24.06 - Gregoire Holds Open The Community College Doors

November 2006

Nov.1.06 - Risch Calls for $37 Million for Two Nursing Buildings

October 2006

Oct.30.06 - Poll: Voters Would Back Community Colleges

Oct.19.06 - Albertson Foundation Campaigns for Colleges

Oct.11.06 - Community Colleges' Long Road Ahead

Oct.11.06 - The Best Solution -- Let the Majority Rule

September 2006

Sep.29.06 - Comprehensive Community College Needed

Sep.27.06 - Candidates to Speak up at NIC Forum

Sep.6.06 - How We Dummies Succeed

August 2006

Aug.9.06 - The Tasks to Complete for Community Colleges, G. Michael, and K. Learned Editorial

Aug.8.06 - Otter Striving for Better Understanding of Stat's Community College System

Aug.3.06 - Editorial: CC Groups Must Keep States Best Interests

July 2006

Jul.19.06 - Idaho's Two Community Colleges Will Join on State Plan

Jul.13.06 - CDL-CC-NIC Expansion

Jul.10.06 - Community Colleges

Jul.2.06 - It's Not Too Late to Go Back to College

Jul.2.06 - Boise Residents on the Move for College Options

June 2006

Jun.7.06 - Idahoans Need to Accept Geographic Differences

Jun.1.06 - Interim Committee Should Reconsider Skipping CSI

Jun.1.06 - College Turf War Turns Financial

May 2006

May.24.06 - Community College Funding Questions Need Answers

May.11.06 - Innovative Funding Solutions Sought for New College

may.6.06 - Legislative Panel Looking at Community College Options

May.6.06 - Community College Interim Committee Meets

April 2006

Apr.30.06 - Tax District Idea Comes Full Circle in Boise Region

Apr.5.06 - Community College Bill Likely on Hold for a Year

March 2006

Mar.28.06 - Community College Bill Likley Dead

Mar.25.06 - Kuna Joins Area Cities Quest for a Community College

Mar.24.06 - State Should Use Care in Making Changes to Community Colleges

Mar.21.06 - Idea Forced From Top Down, Unwanted by Constituents

Mar.20.06 - Public College Bill Dead

Mar.17.06 - Governor's Bill Leaves Taxpayers Footing College Bill

Mar.2.06: Lawmakers Have Yet to Make Good on 2-year College

Mar.2.06 - State Needs More Study on Community Colleges

February 2006

Feb.28.06 - Low-Cost Education

Feb.23.06 - BSU Alters CC Plan

Feb.23.06 - Nampa Could Host College

Feb.22.06 - Plan Community Colleges Before Building Empire

Feb.22.06 - Colleges Jostle for Boise-Area Community College Market

Feb.21.06 - Oregon School Puts Pressure on Idaho's Community College System

Feb.21.06 - Valley Lawmakers Need to Speak up on College Plan

Feb.20.06 - Foundation Could Force Community College Issue

Community College Statement - IBCEE

Feb.9.06 - CSI Should Rein in Request for Boise

Feb.5.06 - Drive for 2-Year College in Valley Picks up Speed

Feb.2.06 - CSI Says It Wants to Expand to Boise

Feb.2.06 - BSU to CSI - Not so Fast

Feb.2.06 - More Choose 2-Year Colleges

Feb.1.06 - The Case for a Community College Network in Idaho

Feb.1.06 - CSI Approval of Expansion Raises Questions

Feb.1.06 - Another Community College Looks at Boise

January 2006

Jan.30.06 - Idaho Can't Wait Forever to Beef up Community Colleges

Jan.17.06 - Kempthorne Urges 'Next Step' for Community Colleges

Jan.17.06 - Community College Presidents Ponder Funding

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