Policy

Boise budget continues McLean’s pro-Portland agenda

By Brian Almon

August 10, 2022

In choosing how to utilize taxpayer money, cities can either expand freedom or curtail it. Even fiscally conservative elected leaders face the temptation to use more and more public funds for good reasons. As the political and cultural capital of Idaho, what happens in Boise affects all Idahoans. How they choose to use their taxpayer […]

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Idaho’s political and education leaders should mistrust education establishment programs

By Idaho Freedom Foundation staff

August 9, 2022

Action Idaho | Special to Idaho Freedom Foundation The Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children (IAEYC) is a state affiliate for the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). Idaho leaders must come to recognize that putting an “I” in front of this leftist national organization does not make it conservative. […]

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Mayor McLean, Boise City Council give $3 million federal grant to early education non-profit sexualizing kids, endorsing CRT

By Idaho Freedom Foundation staff

August 8, 2022

By: Anna Miller and Scott Yenor In 2020 Mayor Lauren McLean’s platform for “A More Equitable City” endorsed “racial equity, white fragility and implicit bias training or book readings” and establishing “sex education at pre-k level – 12th.” Her plans for Boise are coming to fruition through the adoption of a federal grant program for […]

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Proposition 1's $570 million tax hike no gift to Idaho families, businesses

By Fred Birnbaum

August 8, 2022

Food prices are through the roof. Gas prices, while dropping slightly, are crushing Idahoans’ budgets. Property taxes are pushing homeownership out of reach for too many and pushing those on fixed incomes out of paid-off homes. Yet, the Lewiston Tribune's Marty Trillhaase says a half-billion tax increase is a gift to Idahoans. One might only […]

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The higher education DEI takeover will not end until this one major problem is fixed

By Anna Miller

July 27, 2022

Accreditors are responsible for providing an honest assessment on the quality of institutions of higher education, and their stamp of approval is tied to federal and state funds — no green light, no money from the government. Today, most of these associations now require diversity, equity and inclusion policies and programs as a requirement for […]

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Idaho has a $1.4 billion surplus, but leftists still want to raise your taxes

By Fred Birnbaum

July 26, 2022

Idaho’s state government is flush with cash, yet the leftist group Reclaim Idaho and its supporters still want to raise taxes on Gem State residents by more than half-a-billion dollars. Why? Before we get to that, we need to review Idaho’s financial position. And to say the Gem State is sitting pretty is definitely an […]

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Real journalism is essential; too bad the Idaho legacy media don’t provide it

By Wayne Hoffman, IFF’s former President

July 25, 2022

Idaho Press statehouse “reporter” Betsy Russell’s recent attack on me proves everything I’ve been saying about the leftist news media. I couldn’t have exposed her better myself. Her own words give away her bias. Russell parroted the words of University of Idaho President Scott Green, who called us “conflict entrepreneurs” for exposing the left-wing indoctrination […]

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Convention of states is a fool’s gambit

By Ronald M. Nate, Ph.D.

July 25, 2022

Idaho legislators get daily email-mill messages from constituents via the Convention of States Action center demanding Idaho join the call for a Convention of the States (COS) to amend the federal Constitution. Their message starts like this: “Almost everyone knows that our federal government is on a dangerous course. The unsustainable debt combined with crushing […]

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Work together to defeat Reclaim Idaho’s $570 million tax increase

By Wayne Hoffman, IFF’s former President

July 25, 2022

The mendacious leftists at Reclaim Idaho, the group that gave us Obamacare expansion four years ago, appears to have collected enough signatures to put a massive tax increase on the November ballot. It will be known as Proposition 1. The proposal would make Idaho’s income tax 10.925%, the highest in the state’s history and representing […]

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Conservatives must keep fighting leftist indoctrination in higher education

By Ronald M. Nate, Ph.D.

July 22, 2022

Idaho’s public universities sacrifice excellence in higher education in favor of advancing a woke, leftist agenda. We know it, the universities know it, the education establishment knows it, the media knows it, and the legislature knows it. Yet, here we are again, reading an article in the Chronicle for Higher Education denying that such agendas […]

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Idaho Statesman’s latest fake news hit piece falsely portrays legislators as extremists

By Wayne Hoffman, IFF’s former President

July 22, 2022

I try to avoid reading articles in the Idaho Statesman, even though I was one of its reporters from 2001-2005. But much like watching a train wreck, it’s hard to look away. Witness the paper’s most recent pseudo-journalistic offering in its July 22 edition, in which a trio of journalists try to paint conservative legislators […]

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Idaho Medicaid should expressly ban sex change treatments

By Wayne Hoffman, IFF’s former President

July 22, 2022

Idaho Gov. Brad Little’s administration has no policy on whether the state’s Medicaid system will pay for surgeries, hormone therapy, or puberty blockers for so-called transgender adults and children. That is worrisome, and it is personal. Even in Idaho, the lack of a policy statement means public dollars could be used to help people medically […]

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Policy

Boise budget continues McLean’s pro-Portland agenda

Idaho’s political and education leaders should mistrust education establishment programs

Mayor McLean, Boise City Council give $3 million federal grant to early education non-profit sexualizing kids, endorsing CRT

Proposition 1's $570 million tax hike no gift to Idaho families, businesses

The higher education DEI takeover will not end until this one major problem is fixed

Idaho has a $1.4 billion surplus, but leftists still want to raise your taxes

Real journalism is essential; too bad the Idaho legacy media don’t provide it

Convention of states is a fool’s gambit

Work together to defeat Reclaim Idaho’s $570 million tax increase

Conservatives must keep fighting leftist indoctrination in higher education

Idaho Statesman’s latest fake news hit piece falsely portrays legislators as extremists

Idaho Medicaid should expressly ban sex change treatments

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Policy

Boise budget continues McLean’s pro-Portland agenda

Idaho’s political and education leaders should mistrust education establishment programs

Mayor McLean, Boise City Council give $3 million federal grant to early education non-profit sexualizing kids, endorsing CRT

Proposition 1's $570 million tax hike no gift to Idaho families, businesses

The higher education DEI takeover will not end until this one major problem is fixed

Idaho has a $1.4 billion surplus, but leftists still want to raise your taxes

Real journalism is essential; too bad the Idaho legacy media don’t provide it

Convention of states is a fool’s gambit

Work together to defeat Reclaim Idaho’s $570 million tax increase

Conservatives must keep fighting leftist indoctrination in higher education

Idaho Statesman’s latest fake news hit piece falsely portrays legislators as extremists

Idaho Medicaid should expressly ban sex change treatments

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Idaho Freedom Index

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