Jim Jones

Everyone who can should vote for reasonable, civil and pragmatic Republicans in the GOP primary election on May 21st.

HB 421 has several subjects besides just amending school facility financing laws and the seemingly unrelated income tax statutes.

In 2005, the Idaho Supreme Court ruled that the Legislature had flat failed to fulfill its duty to fund the construction and maintenance of school buildings.

Extremist legislators have been relentlessly and unjustifiably attacking libraries and librarians since out-of-state dark money groups placed them on the target list a couple of years ago.

Some people, who simply don’t know what they are talking about, falsely claim the Blaine Amendment is a “dead letter”

Women have not been handed equality in the legal workplace, they have earned it.

I would submit that the closed GOP primary, aided and abetted by the malign influence of the Idaho Freedom Foundation (IFF) and its dark money allies, has created a toxic atmosphere in the Legislature, making it difficult for well-meaning legislators like Clow to do their jobs.

It is certainly fitting that Americans join together on Veterans Day to honor and thank those who stepped forward to serve the country.

Voters should be wary of school district candidates who want to bring religion into the schools, who wish to divert public money to private and parochial schools and who push culture war issues.

Traditional Idahoans are slow to anger but, when they get their feathers ruffled, they are not reluctant to toss out political charlatans.