Mar 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
By Senators Melissa Wintrow and James Ruchti Published by Idaho State Journal Our fundamental right to the initiative and referendum process is under attack again by the Idaho Legislature. This shouldn’t surprise anybody. Since Idahoans voted in 1912 to add to the...
Feb 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
WHAT’S ON THE HORIZON Idaho’s fate feels tenuous. More extreme views are seeping into law. Bills that would never have gotten a hearing before, are making it out of committee. From fears of gov’t inserting vaccines in food to requiring a birth...
Feb 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Making the Process Nearly Impossible… SJR101, arguably the bill to have the most profound long term impacts on Idahoan’s access to the ballot, passed out of Senate State Affairs, even after overwhelming opposition, and was sent to the 14th Order for minor...
Oct 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
The latest attack on everyday Idahoans from Blaine Conzatti and his far-right GOP cronies has gone public: the same special interest groups banning abortion, banning books, and using their backroom connections in government to ban anything that doesn’t meet their...
Sep 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
By MELISSA WINTROW and ILANA RUBEL | Originally published in the Idaho Press Tribune Women are second class citizens. That’s the message Sen. Chuck Winder and Rep. Scott Bedke are sending in their motion to reconsider Judge Winmill’s extremely narrow stay of Idaho’s...
May 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Yesterday’s tragedy where 21 people were killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde County, has once AGAIN brought many of us to our knees, wondering what is wrong with our country and how to stop these murders. I have been struggling with what more there is to say...