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| published Monday, February 19, 2007 |
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I have three young daughters, so when I walked out of the Senate State Affairs Committee hearing on a bill requiring parental consent for minors seeking abortions Monday morning, all I could think about was how much I needed to keep talking to my girls. After years of over-reaching and hundreds of thousands of dollars of litigation, it appears that SB1082, which passed the committee this week, would survive a constitutional test. Still, as Marty Durand of the Idaho Women’s Network observed, “it will do nothing to improve family communications.”
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| published Saturday, February 10, 2007 |
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. At least twice this week, the Governor’s plans were scuttled in favor of a direction favored by the House leadership. And the House leadership—especially Representatives Bedke, Moyle and Roberts--is feeling its oats. They punished the Democrats for voting to kill a bill that the Speaker wanted introduced by not introducing a bill important to Democrats. As someone said, “Real mature.” We knew going into this session that the leadership would be conservative; it is now beginning to show its personality. What is not clear yet is how the Governor is going to play it. Will he remain laissez faire or will he start to play tough?
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| published Monday, February 05, 2007 |
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Check out the latest cartoon by Mike Flinn that captures the promise of a pay raise for state employees after years of hold backs is a little on the "lite side" when compared to the significant increases in benefit costs emplyees will have to cover....
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| published Monday, February 05, 2007 |
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“[Molly] also told [progressive activists], even when she was battling
cancer and Karl Rove, that they should relish the lucky break of their
consciences and their conflicts. Speaking truth to power is the best
job in any democracy, she explained. It took her to towns across this
great yet battered land to say: "So keep fightin' for freedom and
justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it.
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| published Tuesday, January 30, 2007 |
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Ask anyone around
the statehouse this week and they’ll tell you that the 2007 session is
getting off to a slow start. Every year you hear the same thing because
this is the time in between. Most committees are reviewing rules or
hearing presentations.
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| published Tuesday, January 23, 2007 |
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Check out the latest cartoon by Mike Flinn that captures the "drama" of the legislature's first big showdown with the governor. You never know when elected officials will draw a line in the sand...or the Statehouse grounds. But you can bet that when it comes to helping out the big campaign contributors who supported both the governor AND the legislature, they'll be singing in harmony...
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| published Saturday, January 20, 2007 |
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“We must come to see
that the society we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society
that can live with its conscience. That will be a day not of the white
man, not of the black man. That will be the day of man as man. … How
long [will it take]? Not long. Because the arc of the moral universe is
long but it bends towards justice.” MLK, March 1965
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| published Tuesday, January 16, 2007 |
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Welcome back to the Eye-Opener! For the 10th legislative season UVI will be bringing you a weekly perspective on what's happening at the Idaho Statehouse from a progressive point of view...
. It has been 8 years since we experienced a new Governor and a new Speaker of the House at the same time. This, and the specter of the previous governor haunting the Lieutenant Governor's office, 24 freshman legislators and new committee chairs all over the place, makes it hard to figure out how the game is going to be played this year.
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| published Monday, April 17, 2006 |
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My twin daughters age 2 regularly shout out “I did it!” whenever
they accomplish just about anything. I felt a collective “I did
it!” from the Legislature as they finally got themselves extricated
from the snares they had set for themselves on property taxes,
water and transportation funding. They ended the third longest
legislative session in Idaho history Tuesday evening having
successfully passed property tax benefits for homeowners,
coming to agreement on water and finally letting Governor
Kempthorne’s highway bill pass the House.
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| published Monday, April 10, 2006 |
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"Let
us be dissatisfied until from every city hall, justice will roll down
like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. Let us be
dissatisfied until that day when the lion and the lamb shall lie down
together, and every man will sit under his own vine and fig tree and
none shall be afraid. Let us be dissatisfied." MLK, 1967
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