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The Idaho Statesman is a U.S. daily newspaper serving the Boise,Idaho,metropolitan area. The paper has a circulation of 47,855 daily,74,905 Sunday,and employs about 200 people. It is owned by The McClatchy Company. The paper was first published as the Idaho Tri-Weekly Statesman on July 26,1864 by James S. Reynolds; it began publication from a log cabin on the current site of Boise City Hall. Reynolds owned and operated the paper for its first eight years,selling to Judge Milton Kelly in 1872. Kelly's 17-year run ended in 1888,with the expansion to daily publication,and a name change: The Idaho Daily Statesman.