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Making sense of Little’s FY22 budget

By Fred Birnbaum
January 21, 2021
There is only one job the state Legislature must do each and every year: Pass a balanced budget. Gov. Brad Little has done a much better job than his predecessor containing spending, but that doesn’t mean his budget proposal is perfect. Here are seven things to like (and seven not to like) about the spending […]
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Little chooses to fund systems, not students

By Anna Miller
January 12, 2021
Families need education options now more than ever during the coronavirus pandemic. Opposing choice, Gov. Brad Little opted to grow the public school monopoly instead of empowering families and students to select the education that best suits their needs, in Monday’s State of the State address. Little claimed fealty to respecting taxpayers by spending their […]
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Social Justice Ideology in Idaho Higher Education

By Idaho Freedom Foundation staff
January 5, 2021
By Dr. Scott Yenor & Anna K. Miller Social justice ideology is turning American higher education into an engine of progressive activism and ideological indoctrination. Its advocates demand conformity to the cult of race, class and gender victimology cloaked in language like “diversity” and “inclusion.” It is bad for free inquiry and for scientific advancement. […]
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University of Idaho parts company with Communist-funded Confucius Institute

By Wayne Hoffman
January 2, 2021
Let’s begin 2021 with some potentially happy news from a place that hasn’t generated a lot of happy news of late: The University of Idaho. The school is closing a program on campus that is funded by Communist China. The program is called the Confucius Institute and it is one of hundreds of similar institutes […]
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New Year’s resolution 2021: Expose Idaho’s socialists and the programs they make you pay for

By Wayne Hoffman
December 26, 2020
How much support do you give to radical leftist organizations? I posed this question to a conservative friend the other day. He furrowed his brow and looked at me like I was crazy. He’d never willingly lend his support to socialists, he assured me.  The key word in his answer is “willingly.” You might substitute […]
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Supreme Court denies justice for thousands of Idahoans

By Matt Tobeck
December 22, 2020
Americans have a constitutional right to a fair and speedy trial, but the Idaho Supreme Court is arguably denying justice for thousands of Idahoans by suspending jury trials indefinitely, using Covid-19 as an excuse. There’s no telling when juries will again be empaneled, but the Supreme Court has signaled it could be until at least […]
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Tax relief should be the Legislature’s priority in 2021

By Fred Birnbaum
December 21, 2020
One of the major disappointments of the last two sessions was the lack of meaningful tax relief for Idahoans. It might surprise people that the state government is rolling in money while the virus impacts the economy. But it is true, and that is the reason tax relief needs to be a priority. The tax […]
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Dear Santa

By Wayne Hoffman
December 19, 2020
Dear Santa, I have but one wish for Christmas 2020: Please send one unbiased Idaho news reporter. He or she need not be wrapped. Just leave ‘em under the tree next to the big box with the Frozen-themed wrapping from seven years ago.  Santa, I need you to understand the basis of my request: When […]
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Media, lawmakers need to start talking about state Medicaid spending crisis

By Wayne Hoffman
December 13, 2020
It wasn’t so long ago that Idaho newspaper editorial pages and TV newscasters couldn’t shut up about Medicaid expansion. They’d opine almost daily on how wonderful it would be to extend the government entitlement program to thousands more participants in the Gem State. Media paraded would-be Medicaid clients in front of cameras as victims of […]
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Crisis standards of care

By Idaho Freedom Foundation staff
December 13, 2020
By Dr. John M. Livingston | Medical Policy Adviser The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare oversight board voted earlier this week to have the government play a central role in who lives and who dies. As a retired surgeon, I simply can’t believe that people who have never taken care of a sick patient […]
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IFF comments in opposition to Central District Health's new draft order

By Matt Tobeck
December 7, 2020
Central District Health, Board of Health Director Russell Duke and Board 707 Armstrong Place Boise, Idaho 83704 December 7, 2020 Dear Director Duke and Board, It is a step in the right direction that this board, in response to public comment, has revised its December 2, 2020 draft order for Ada, Boise, Elmore, and Valley […]
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Medicaid’s cost explosion requires immediate action

By Fred Birnbaum
December 7, 2020
In the chaos of a contested presidential election and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Idaho’s greatest financial threat has been able to creep by without much notice.  Medicaid, created to provide health care coverage to the country’s most vulnerable — the disabled and low-income individuals and families — has seen a recent explosion of cost. In […]
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