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The Transfer Ahead
A generation of Idaho institutional leadership reaching the end of its tenure at once, and what determines whether its judgment carries forward.
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The Last Ten Years
Somebody at fifty-five holds more transferable understanding than they ever will again and has roughly a decade to move it. Almost nobody uses that decade for anything except continuing.
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Starting Something That Outlasts You
Most new civic efforts end with the person who started them. The ones that persist were built differently from the beginning, and the differences are small and unglamorous.
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The Transfer Now Under Way
A generation that has governed Idaho's institutions for decades is reaching the end of its tenure at roughly the same moment. Whether its judgment carries forward is being settled now, mostly by default.