Voices

Recessions or economic slowdowns are a rotten time to raise taxes to pay for a government we bought during a pandemic that we can no longer afford.

Even if a review process determined that only 5% of sales tax exclusions should expire, that alone would make an additional $250 million available for schools each year.

We can only hope Idaho’s conservative legislators hold onto their good old Idaho conservative principles.

This summer, sponsors in rural communities will have the option of offering a week’s worth of food all at once.

The use of public funds to support, and repress, religion condemned early Idaho to decades of resentment and division.

It was a win-win . . . which is why, in Idaho, the loudest “school choice” advocates would consider it a loss.

Education opportunity is one of the greatest civil rights issues of our time.

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.

Hands-on experience could not come at a better time.

A major alarm bell should be that law enforcement does not support this approach.