Editorial Roundup: Idaho
Talk about gaslighting. How else would you describe Republican legislators who transformed the Gem State into a child care desert before turning on working families and their kids? Before killing a $6 million federal grant to promote quality early childhood learning by a 36-to-34 vote, they managed to drown one of the partners involved - the Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children - in a wave of innuendo. But what else could these culture warriors do? Rep. Priscilla Giddings, R-White Bird, couldn’t defend Idaho’s sorry record as one of six states that doesn’t lift a finger...