Idaho's bill is among the strictest of 30 similar pieces of Republican-backed legislation proposed this year. Legal experts said it could be vulnerable to challenges.
This from a state that doesn’t even require parents to provide life saving medical care to kids.
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Currently, librarians follow the miller test when deciding what books and materials to put on the shelves, using guidance from boards made up of community members.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho public health leaders on Thursday expanded health care rationing statewide amid a massive increase in the number o
Crisis care standards mean that scarce resources such as ICU beds will be allotted to the patients most likely to survive. Other patients will be treated with less effective methods or, in dire cases, given pain relief and other palliative care.
“The situation is dire – we don’t have enough resources to adequately treat the patients in our hospitals, whether you are there for COVID-19 or a heart attack or because of a car accident,” Idaho Department of Welfare Director Dave Jeppesen said in statement.
State warns residents may not get care they would normally expect as case numbers rocket and governor urges people to take vaccine
The designation includes 10 hospitals and healthcare systems in the Idaho panhandle and in north-central Idaho. The agency said its goal is to extend care to as many patients as possible and to save as many lives as possible.
“Crisis standards of care is a last resort. It means we have exhausted our resources to the point that our healthcare systems are unable to provide the treatment and care we expect,” the Idaho department of health and welfare director, Dave Jeppesen, said in a statement.
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Idaho hit a grim COVID-19 trifecta this week, reaching record numbers of emergency room visits, hospitalizations and ICU patients. Medical experts say the deeply conservative state will likely see 30,000 new infections a week by mid-September.
A popular TikTok creator and scientist known for her explainer videos recently took on Dr. Ryan Cole, a Garden City pathologist whose commen
In a phone interview with the Idaho Statesman, she said she created the account after seeing reports that nearly half of Americans did not plan to be vaccinated against COVID-19. She said she hoped her explainer videos would clear up the science and give people more accurate information.
The Idaho Supreme Court says Republican state lawmakers had no “compelling” interest to add significant restrictions to Idaho’s ballot initiative process.
Justices said the effects of the bill created a “perceived, but unsubstantiated fear of the ‘tyranny of the majority’ by replacing it with an actual ‘tyranny of the minority.’”
“This would result in a scheme that squarely conflicts with the democratic ideals that form the bedrock of the constitutional republic created by the Idaho Constitution, and seriously undermines the people’s initiative and referendum powers enshrined therein,” justices wrote in the majority opinion.
Ada County Commissioners interviewed three doctors Monday to fill an open seat on a regional public health board, one of which has repeatedly spread misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ada County Commissioners interviewed three doctors Monday to fill an open seat on a regional public health board, one of which has repeatedly spread misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The bill would allow the state to hire contractors to kill the wolves, which supporters say are threatening the livelihoods of Idaho’s ranchers.
If environmental activists, both soft and hard line, had any courage, they would promote an effort to discourage any tourism to Idaho. This action is insane.
Excerpt from this New York Times story:
The Idaho Senate approved a bill this week that would permit the state to hire contractors to kill up to 90 percent of Idaho’s wolves with the goal, supporters said, of protecting cattle and other agricultural interests.
“These wolves, there’s too many in the state of Idaho,” State Senator Mark Harris, a Republican, said on the Senate floor before the vote on Wednesday, after telling a story about a “gentleman rancher” whose livelihood was jeopardized when a pack of wolves scared off his cattle.
Idaho’s Wolf Conservation and Management plan calls for the state to maintain a wolf population of at least 150 wolves. At last count, Mr. Harris said, 1,556 wolves were roaming the state.
“They’re destroying ranchers; they’re destroying wildlife,” he said.
The bill would give the state’s Wolf Control Fund an additional $190,000 to hire contractors to kill wolves — on top of $400,000 previously allocated toward killing wolves in Idaho. The bill also would remove a limit on the number of wolves a hunter is permitted to kill.
The Senate approved the bill in a 26-7 vote on Wednesday. The measure now goes to the State House of Representatives. The office of Governor Brad Little, a Republican, declined to say whether he planned to sign the bill. Last year Mr. Little signed another bill boosting funds for the killing of wolves.
Backers of the bill said that wolves also reduce the numbers of deer and elk available to hunters, taking an additional economic toll on the state. Some lawmakers disputed that hiring contractors would drive the wolf population down to just 150, while others referenced the 150 figure as if were the goal.
While sometimes their population does need to be controlled, 90% is over the top, unnecessary, and cruel. Wolves are a keystone species and important to the environment. They control the population of deer and keep the herds healthy by hunting the sick, weak, and elderly. Moreover, they keep herds moving, which helps ensure the new growth of local flora that provides resources and environments to other animals. If the wolves are really a problem, there are definitely better ways to handle it.
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Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin said Thursday that she will assemble a task force to examine indoctrination in Idaho schools — including critical race theory, socialism, communism, and Marxism, writes Idaho
Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin said Thursday that she will assemble a task force to examine indoctrination in Idaho schools — including critical race theory, socialism, communism, and Marxism, writes Idaho Education News reporter Blake Jones. “We must find where these insidious theories and philosophies are lurking and excise them from our education system,” McGeachin said in a news release. “Idahoans are increasingly frustrated by the apparent lack of awareness and leadership coming from the state on these issues.”
Guess we’re just trying to get McCarthyism going again.
The bill died despite a Democrat’s last-minute effort to revive it.
WTF
The House killed a bill Tuesday to allow the State Board of Education to receive nearly $6 million in federal grants to support early childhood education across the state over three years.
Following a lengthy morning floor debate, the House voted 36-34 against House Bill 226. The bill was a supplemental appropriation bill to provide money from the Federal Preschool Development Grant to the State Board.
The State Board announced jointly with the Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children on Jan. 5 that Idaho had been awarded the grant. The announcement said the grant would allow Idaho to “build a mixed-delivery system for parents with young children.”
The State Board and Idaho AEYC leaders said the grant would support Gov. Brad Little’s literary initiative by helping strengthen children’s language and literacy skills form birth to age 5, before the start of school.
When I say Idaho as a state is anti-person...
Conservative Republicans attacked the partnership with Idaho AEYC and its national affiliate, the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Opponents suggested the national organization would use books and curriculum to indoctrinate children with a social justice agenda.
“I think we need to talk about social justice ideology — that’s what you’re voting for, you’re voting for social justice ideology to be given, through grant money, to our little ones,” said Rep. Priscilla Giddings, R-White Bird, who helped lead the opposition.
Do they hear themselves talking? They don’t want kids to learn to read because of justice??
Baker, Grant, Lake, Malheur and Sherman counties in Oregon will decide this spring if they want to move forward with moving Oregon's border.
greater idaho is so funny to me.
i don’t think they can just ballot initiate their way to a different state.
but also i don’t think they’d really be happy being part of idaho. they’d lose a lot. possibly even the ability to make ballot initiatives, if that law passes.
of course the idea is to take reps away from oregon and give them to idaho so there can be more conservatives in the us congress, but i’m not even sure the math works out there.
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It turns out that Idaho’s Medicaid expansion program arrived just in time.
Idaho’s new Medicaid enrollees are being admitted for spinal fusion surgeries at five times the rate of elsewhere in the country. They are being treated for abdominal hernias at three times the rate of enrollees in other states. We’re seeing similar demand for hip replacements, shoulder and knee surgeries, and many other treatments.
This pent-up demand will likely decrease in the years ahead as more Idahoans receive preventive treatment. But for now, the need is desperate and Medicaid expansion is meeting it.
But shockingly, in spite of the surging demand for health care in the midst of a global pandemic, some of Idaho’s politicians are attempting to make deep cuts to Medicaid.
In a move that shocked many of his own supporters, Gov. Little recently proposed cutting Medicaid by up to $118 million. This includes cuts to the Medicaid expansion program and also to traditional Medicaid, which provides health care services primarily for children and seniors.
These cuts would be devastating for thousands of Idaho workers and families. We haven’t seen their detailed plan yet, but we know these cuts could include the elimination of dental coverage and other critical services for thousands of Idahoans.
BOISE (AP) — The Senate State Affairs Committee voted to send the joint resolution that bans all psychoactive drugs not already legal in Idaho to the full Senate. That list would change for drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration. But the target over the two days of testimony on Monday and Friday was …
Sen. Michelle Stennett, a Democrat from Ketchum, also noted that the amendment would prohibit doctors from providing terminally ill patients access to experimental or investigational drugs that are normally illegal but can still be prescribed in certain circumstances when other treatments have failed.
“Passing this would prohibit Idaho doctors and patients from making medical choices,” by banning new medical breakthroughs, Stennett said. “This is a direct impact on the ability of Idahoans to do good medical health care.”