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01 - Save NIC
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NO ID Episode 01 - Save NIC
This inaugural episode starts at the beginning: Why this show exists, why North Idaho politics are a lot messier than the postcard would suggest, and how a transplant and a lifelong local ended up staring directly into white-hot center of it all. Former North Idaho College trustee board chair Todd Banducci joins Paul and Scott for a sprawling deconstruction of the people, politics, power struggles, media narratives, elections, accreditation fight, and institutional history surrounding the college. Along the way: California refugees, North Idaho growth, housing, the Hagadone machine, mysterious political alliances, and the overarching question of whether NIC’s “crisis” was actually what the headlines said it was.
Timestamps:
(00:00:27) Welcome to NO ID: Why hyper-local?
(07:28:00) Todd Banducci joins the show: Setting the stage for the NIC fight
(10:00:00) The CA-to-ID migration and who gets blamed for changing the area
(15:00:00) Growth, housing and the NIMBY paradox
(28:23:00) The Value-4-Value philosophy — time, talent and treasure
(40:02:00) North Idaho College as a taxing entity
(49:13:00) The Hagadone connection and the Newsom/Pelosi/Getty/Brown dynasty in CA
(56:14:00) Elections, NIC politics and the battles inside the board
(01:10:04) The NO ID format: deconstructing the mainstream media narratives
(01:19:05) Accreditation, NWCCU and the narrative surrounding NIC
(01:40:00) The long history of the NIC power struggle
(02:19:41) The future of NIC and the November 5th elections
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