December 25, 2021

Little Appoints Bellevue Mayor to Open District 26 House Seat

Gov. Brad Little appointed Bellevue Mayor Ned Burns to the open District 26 House seat Thursday following the resignation of former Rep. Muffy Davis, who was recently selected to serve on the Blaine County Board of Commissioners. Burns, who will complete Davis’s remaining term for 2022, served on the Bellevue city council before being elected mayor in 2018 and again …

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December 23, 2021

“Leadership’s secret ingredient” – by Rep. Steve Berch

I worked for the Hewlett Packard Company in Boise for over 30 years. I retired when I was elected to the Idaho Legislature in 2018. A group of former HP employees were recently asked to recount their favorite Bill and Dave story (referring to the founders, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard). Here’s mine. It reveals what I believe to be …

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December 6, 2021

“An Open Letter to Scott Yenor: We Aren’t Going Anywhere” – by Sen. Melissa Wintrow

Dear Mr. Yenor, Words matter… Your recent divisive words mattered, but in a way you may not have expected — they actually united the very group of “medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome” women you hoped to segregate and diminish. People across Idaho are raising their voices on social media to celebrate women for the very achievements you condemn, from being a …

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