The Idaho Legislature is doing it again: attempting to bypass parents, school boards and those empowered to keep the peace. If approved, HB 415, allowing staff in public schools to carry concealed firearms, may bring an armed teacher to a school near Read More
What kind of narrative does your political party offer? Reading the recent back and forth within the news concerning purity tests, conformance pledges, and other requirements put forth by local Republican Party leaders calls to mind a classic children’s fantasy: Madeleine L’Engle’s Read More
Are you tired of being forced into making binary choices? Consider these divisive issues. Are you pro-life or pro-choice? Do you support Biden or Trump? For whom do you fan, BYU or BSU? This type of yes or no, up or down, Read More
No matter how you spin it, it has been an interesting summer for Idaho’s voters. Reagan’s “big Republican Party tent” is splitting apart. Attorney General Raúl Labrador’s attempt to define the Open Primaries Initiative was brought up short by Idaho’s Supreme Court. Read More
As we celebrate our nation’s independence, one wonders how history might have been different if our founding parents said, “Why bother?” Imagine John Adams writing: “Abigail, I am coming home. These loyalists just don’t get it. Besides, we cannot defeat the British.” It Read More
”Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.” —Viktor Frankl If I could give just one message to our Legislature, this would be it. Slow Read More