Supporting Idaho families and Idaho values
The 2021 Republican legislative supermajority is working at a dizzying pace on bills that would take power from you, make decisions for you about your health care, decrease tax equity and ignore the priority needs of Idaho families. Senate Bill 1110 would Read More
A bill recently introduced before the Idaho Legislature to greatly restrict Idaho’s citizen initiative process would in reality break a long-standing Idaho tradition allowing voters to directly influence how we govern ourselves. The bill is antidemocratic. On February 17, a record number Read More
By DAVID ROTH | Democratic columnist | Feb 5, 2021 For a Legislature that prides itself on frugality and efficiency, I have to admit that I am taken back by some of the actions of the Legislature this session. I don’t understand Read More
Repeal of the state grocery sales tax would be disastrous for Idaho education and infrastructure already reeling from woefully inadequate funding. In his Jan. 13 column, Bryan Smith suggested that he and I support the repeal of the grocery tax. He stated Read More
On July 26, 1990, President George Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law. An iconic image from that time shows a group of demonstrators abandoning their wheelchairs and crawling up the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Their actions graphically Read More
With the first week of the 2021 session ending, I’d like to see our “representatives” push to invest in our communities. Perhaps this year, we’ll have more focus on actual issues and less time spent creating harmful policies to remedy made-up problems. Read More