Voices

Recent investments in educator pay have gone a long way to improve educator retention rates in Idaho schools, but we need to know what long-term strategies can be implemented to prevent future teacher shortages.

Doyle Beck, who chairs the Bonneville Republican Central Committee, told the Post Register that party officials should be able to hold their elected officials accountable.

The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know.

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.

The top-four primary eliminates political party nominations, grouping all primary candidates, regardless of party, for each elected office on the ballot.

For every action taken by political leaders, there is an equal and opposite reaction happening out in the schools.

It wasn’t long ago when now-Lt. Gov. Scott Bedke was part of a House leadership team that was widely viewed as one of the most conservative in Idaho’s history. Across the rotunda, there was now-Gov. Brad Little who generally was preaching the same conservative gospel in the Senate. I worked as communication adviser with the…

For a long time, we’ve searched for an affordable way to offer Idaho’s students the training and education they need to fill the jobs of the future.

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

The West Bonner School District is a cautionary tale, illustrating the stakes and the ease with which extremism can take hold.