Supporting Idaho families and Idaho values
On paper, saying your community supports equity and justice for marginalized groups certainly sounds nice. Touting your community as a welcoming place for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color), LGBT+ people, disabled people, people from different class backgrounds and neurodivergent people Read More
This week we learned that distinguished Boise attorney Tom Arkoosh is the new Democratic nominee for Idaho attorney general, running against former Republican Congressman Raul Labrador. It is significant in that Jim Jones, former chief justice of the Idaho Supreme Court and Read More
Maybe the line between party support and a radical is closer than you think. Radical, for many, is just the term the other side uses to discredit or devalue the progress of the opposing party. Even our forefathers saw how radical approaches Read More
Democracy is under threat in Idaho, as evidenced by the past two Idaho legislative sessions. We have seen our elected officials attack the basic tenets of free and fair elections, the rights of minorities and women, and the rule of law. Once Read More
There has been much talk and fanfare the past year about the record budget surplus for the state of Idaho. Unfortunately, as I’ve pointed out in the past, our record “surplus” is nothing more than an indication of the fact that our Read More
Inflation occurs when too much money chases too few goods. That is the condition — how does it happen? Too much money or too few goods? The popular myth is that inflation happens when governments and banks print too much money. Historically Read More
