Republicans again push to fund private schools
Does anyone else find it funny that Idaho legislators–who want to stop school boards from asking voters to vote on bonds time after...
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Dems Speak Out
Judy Ferro
- Feb 1
- 3 min
Sometimes I find things humorous when I shouldn’t
During a summer break from high school, my dad rented a boat and we wafted happily across Redfish Lake. Then the small electric engine...
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Judy Ferro
- Jan 16
- 3 min
Protestors ignore reality
Last week opposition to a policy being considered by the Caldwell School Board got national attention when hundreds turned out to protest...
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Judy Ferro
- Jan 10
- 3 min
The State of the Republican Party
Sen. Kevin McCarthy is now Speaker of the House and third in line for the presidency. After 100 years of speakers being elected on the...
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Judy Ferro
- Jan 3
- 3 min
Road to happiness: Making a difference
Maybe it’s because many of us were raised with a work ethic, but it seems to me that the happiest people are those who feel they are...
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Judy Ferro
- Dec 27, 2022
- 3 min
Looking toward a not-so-happy new year
Most years offer enough hard times and regrets that I’m not sorry to see them end. But I’m feeling different about 2022. It appears to...
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Judy Ferro
- Dec 20, 2022
- 3 min
Saving our democracy
If Americans only care about winning elections, we will lose our right to them. We must start caring about–and acting on– the beliefs...
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Judy Ferro
- Dec 13, 2022
- 3 min
Lame Duck Congress has important jobs to finish
As far as numbers go, the work of “lame duck” Congresses is phenomenal. The Congress of 2007-08 managed to pass 165 of its 460 laws in...
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Judy Ferro
- Dec 6, 2022
- 3 min
Democracies do die
Last week a jury found two men–Oath Keepers leader Steward Rhodes and Kelly Meggs–guilty of seditious conspiracy. The number of weapons...
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Judy Ferro
- Aug 20, 2022
- 3 min
Democrats' failure to recruit this year
Seriously, I should have done more. It may not have made a difference. Others tried; there’s no reason to think I could’ve done better....
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Judy Ferro
- Aug 13, 2022
- 3 min
Don't write Dems off yet
Primary elections in Alaska and Wyoming are today–another five more states have primaries by Sept. 13. Even with state primaries pending,...
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canyoncountydems
- Jul 30, 2022
- 3 min
Biden keeps plugging away
We've discovered a Lancelot! Hooray! Hoo--what? It's been six minutes, Twice a boiled egg’s limit-- What's stalling our healthy and...
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canyoncountydems
- Jul 24, 2022
- 3 min
Republican Platform calls for change
The Idaho Republican platform isn’t merely values, but includes details of specific applications–and Republican primary candidates are...
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canyoncountydems
- Jul 24, 2022
- 3 min
Democratic platform embraces Idaho values
By the time this is published, you may know whether those attending Idaho’s Republican Convention adopted a resolution stating that Joe...
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Judy Ferro
- Jun 4, 2022
- 3 min
Republican Quixotes attack investors’ choices and sources
Four hundred years ago Miguel de Cervantes created a protagonist who imagined himself a bold knight as he fought windmills he perceived...
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Judy Ferro
- May 29, 2022
- 3 min
Low voter turnout plagues some districts
I imagine most people in the valley are glad the primaries are over and they can get back to worrying about rainfall and other aspects of...
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Judy Ferro
- May 21, 2022
- 3 min
Extremists claim great legislative gains
Idaho elections made the national news this week with Gov. Brad Little’s defeat of Trump-endorsed Janice McGeachin. That had to encourage...
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canyoncountydems
- May 7, 2022
- 3 min
Roe v. Wade made a difference
“Every child has a right to be wanted.” That was the rallying cry of pro-abortion activists prior to the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. In...
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canyoncountydems
- Apr 30, 2022
- 3 min
Ukraine has halted the advance of autocracy
If you study history, you know that grand intentions can backfire. The French Revolution ended, not with democracy, but with Emperor...
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canyoncountydems
- Apr 23, 2022
- 3 min
It’s not easy to run for office–or to be an informed voter
Last week I talked with a fellow Democrat confused by a postcard she’d gotten singling out one of the 46 Idaho representatives who’d...
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