NO ID Episode 48 - Born Bureaucrat
Executive Producers:
Sir Donald of the Firebottles, Secretary General of Greater Idaho
Jeff Mason
Jason the Weightlifting Polack
Anonymous
Matt Edwards of Citizens Alliance Idaho joins us for a wide-ranging conversation about public education, whistleblowers, political pressure, free expression, and the machinery behind Idaho ballot initiatives. Plus, Prop 1, Spokane's new post-fires permitting policies, shrinking school enrollment yet expanding appetite for revenue, and the latest installment of the Hayden–Kootenai County Sheriff's Office contract saga.
Timestamps:
(00:01:39) Matt Edwards, The Idaho Signal, and the White Pine whistleblower
(00:06:45) Public education and the price of speaking out
(00:10:07) The Drop Deliberation Deathmatch
(00:12:08) The inaugural NO ID meetup
(00:17:43) Free expression on university campuses in Idaho
(00:22:33) North Idaho College as a case-study
(00:25:47) Proposition 1 and the Citizens Alliance connection
(00:26:27) Who is funding the abortion ballot initiative?
(00:33:26) Physicians and the framing game
(00:42:50) What Prop 1 actually says
(00:46:50) Parental consent and the Prop 1 petition
(00:57:30) The road that nobody wants privatized
(01:00:00) Value-for-value
(01:05:58) Spokane wildfire rebuilding permits
(01:14:59) Idaho's state-run liquor stores
(01:17:15) Boise schools, bonds, and falling enrollment
(01:22:37) Hayden and the KCSO contract
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