The Blue Review January 12, 2021
KayCee Downey (she/her) is a city planner and public historian. An alum of Boise State University, KayCee earned her Masters of Applied Historical Research in 2017, where she focused on gender and political history. Today, her interests lie in cross-disciplinary solutions to everyday problems, in which she believes an understanding of the past always has a place.
A Japanese American farm worker toils at a Farm Security Administration camp near Rupert, Idaho. Farm Security Administration, circa 1940s.
Idaho and agriculture go together like mashed potatoes and gravy. French fries and ketchup. Tubers and, well, Idaho. According to the 2017 Census of Agriculture, the most recent data on agricultural land, Idaho has a total farm size of 11.7 million acres. Despite farmers not actively using all 11.7 million and the fact that the number of agricultural acreages is decreasing at a substantial rate, that is still a lot of land that needs pla
civilian farm population have moved out of the area. it s the haven for the taliban and it s where the movement started years ago. and it s known to be the homeland of the taliban. american forces and afghan forces taking along with them afghan police and newly appointed government officials in an effort to resemble the area as they go through it and put that government administration in place so that that taliban can t return. the military has made no mention of any casualties so far. they re call it a significant movement rather than an operation and they re pointing out that it s part of a wider strategy to pacify kandahar, but most in southern afghanistan. can you confirm or deny whether or not the taliban is using anger for the possibility on the koran burning here, using that to fuel fire and support there? well, in fact, there was a demonstration here today in kabul. ten protesters were injured and