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
Voters in Bonneville County likely are not aware of the degree of extremism of representatives Chad Christensen in District 32 and Barbara Ehardt and Bryan Zollinger in District 33. To provide an index, these legislators voted with extremist north Idaho representative Heather Read More
As educators ponder the drawbacks of especially early elementary age children completing nearly a semester of school without the physical presence of their teachers because of the coronavirus pandemic, acknowledging the years children lose who start kindergarten ill prepared and never catch Read More
