Washington legislator offers new spin on rural-urban divide.
By Randy Stapilus
Oregon Capital Chronicle
The idea of Greater Idaho — splitting off most of eastern Oregon to join with the state of Idaho — isn’t going to fly.
It won’t happen.
So here’s another idea: the Autonomous Area of Eastern Oregon. And Western too, for good measure.
This concept was not invented in the deep recesses of a pundit’s mind. It comes from a recently…