Guest voice: Idahoans deserve a second chance
Representative Ilana Rubel and Senator Dave Lent talk about working to remove barriers to employment.

Our criminal justice system is intended to ensure an appropriate penalty associate with crime. We refer to this as paying one’s debt to society. However, under some of Idaho’s current laws, the payment never seems to stop.

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Return of the ERA
New momentum for the Equal Rights Amendment puts the spotlight on Idaho’s legal past

Sometimes, the most important news happens too far in the background to make reverberations befitting its importance. Concepts like judicial decisions often fit this mold as changes that seem incremental in the moment but explode into importance as time goes on. Against all the odds, Idaho might be right at the center of a political firestorm because of some shady politics from three and a half decades ago.