YOUR OPINION

Something I can’t understand is taking over my sensibilities. Maybe it’s smoke, the noise, traffic, the rude attitude, parking meters, or the lack of affordable housing. I’ll start with affordability and equality. It is becoming impossible for young people to live here. The jobs just don’t provide incomes for rent or mortgages.

This isn’t new to us. I am among the disappointed folks who once believed Idaho was great. Our politicians are aware of the problem, but I look to them to join hands to fix the imbalance. The ‘Idaho Way’ to keep them in office seems to cut taxes for the wealthy, cut basic services for those less fortunate and reap the profits in order to dismantle our vision of what’s civil and fair.