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ENTERPRISE — Wallowa County voters will once again get the chance to decide whether they want the county commissioners to investigate making the county part of Idaho.
Skeptics have long dismissed the Greater Idaho movement as half-baked, but the plan to split Oregon's rural eastern counties from Portland and fold them into the famous-potatoes state is only picking up steam.
ENTERPRISE — Once again, secessionist stirrings are rising in an effort to pull Wallowa County out of Oregon and join it with neighboring Idaho.
Formerly known as Move Oregon’s Border, the group wants at least 11 eastern Oregon counties to secede and join Idaho. The group is led by its president Mike McCarter, who once lived in Portland but retired to the small community of La Pine outside of Bend.
The Move Oregon’s Border effort always has been one of those interesting concepts that can trigger a host of sentiments, and while the philosophy undergirding the proposal is a firm