The Idaho Freedom Foundation has usurped the word “freedom.” It labels legislators who fail to adhere to its rigid, libertarian ideology as being anti-freedom, RINOs or worse: Democrats. Many voters are misled by IFF’s glib explanations of how it measures freedom. Embracing Read More
Every two years, we reorganize as the Bonneville County Democratic Central Committee, as required by state law. Precinct Captains are elected during the primary and choose the officers of the committee. State law requires that Precinct Captains and elected officers make up Read More
I recently had an experience that started me thinking about what it means to be equal in our society. There is an auditory walk signal at the intersection of Broadway and Skyline. “Wow,” I exclaimed, “this is great.” As a blind person, Read More
The afterglow of Mother’s Day is a particularly meaningful time to apply the standard of “What if the person being denied basic human rights were your child?” The opportunity to right a terrible wrong against some people in our community rests with Read More
The COVID-19 pandemic has done much in terms of laying bare some of the challenges we face in our health care system. One of those challenges is access to health care. Idaho is the only state with a state-run health exchange that Read More
“Push it to the middle” is a maxim my brother, a retired Marine Corps major, repeats often and is a practice sorely needed in Idaho now. The Idaho Freedom Foundation, a libertarian think tank, has been ramping up divisive, extremist activities including Read More