Hundreds of Idaho children are looking for a home. Consider being a foster parent
Foster a child
Idaho teens need you! At any given time, approximately 500 kids between the ages of 12 and 18 are in care in Idaho alone. Please help us find a home for every teen for the holidays. If you have ever had a fleeting thought about becoming a foster parent, now is the time.
Think back to when a caring adult impacted your teenage years. Without a caring adult, you would have a difficult time making big decisions and solving problems. The power of one caring adult is significant.
Teenagers need a sense of stability, connection, and guidance — especially with big life tasks such as enrolling in college, finding employment, and establishing healthy relationships in their community. The presence of a caring adult is crucial as teens navigate life and its many challenges.
You can make a difference, and you won’t have to do it alone. The state of Idaho aids in medical and dental insurance, foster care reimbursement, case management service, support groups, and more. Don’t let another day go by for these teens without homes.
Take the first step and attend an information meeting. Learn more by calling 2-1-1 or visiting fosteringidaho.org.
Sarahi Juarez, Boise
Climate extremists?
The recent article, “What’s going on with Climate Change,” by The Associated Press was in stark contrast to Jay Ambrose’s “Climate Extremist” opinion and vitriol against Gore and Biden. Opinions perpetuating tribal warfare instead of factual information is a “rabbit hole” that divides our nation. Fortunately, the AP’s piece is a worthy read explaining the history of science sounding the alarm of impending climate change’s devastating effects.
Ambrose is not a denier, but his two points were that we can adapt our way through climate change disaster and return to the false notion that nuclear energy would be “too cheap to meter.” Research shows otherwise. Elizabeth Robinson, director of the Grantham Research Institute in London stated, “The extent to which people are harmed by an extreme weather event is strongly influenced by government policies,” “there are limits to adaptation.” Few governments have both the resources and political will for adaptation success. Nuclear physics require 1,832 degrees for current fission reactors and 270 million degrees for futuristic fusion. Both versions merely boil water at 212 degrees. Gee, what can go wrong there? No problem, the nuclear industry’s Anderson Act placed the most liability costs onto U.S. taxpayers.
Ed Wardwell, Boise
Choices
We make choices every day: decaffeinated or caffeinated, over-easy or sunny-side up, wheat or white bread, regular or premium – choices.
Being “pro choice” does not mean pro-abortion or pro-life; it means women can make a choice.
It means she can make choices about her body, based upon her circumstances at that point in her life.
By no means is this an easy choice, not taken lightly by any women.
To deny anybody their right to choose about what they can/cannot do with their own body is unconscionable, whether I agree or disagree, this is not the point, it’s not my body.
Having a choice of one alternative is not a choice.
Jim Nutt, Boise
Andrus
Good ol’ Ceece. During the ’80s and ’90s, Idaho had the privilege of having a governor who, I don’t hesitate to say, was one of the finest that this country has ever seen. Cecil Andrus was a leader, not a politician. It was not a career to him but a position of service. He loved people.
Ronald Reagan had some of the same character qualities, but Ceece had a humility to him that Reagan did not. Ceece was able to walk in another’s shoes.
In the Roe v. Wade days, Andrus took a stand. Abortion, to him, was abhorrent. But he never felt that a woman should be denied that right. He respected women!
Blessed was I to have known him personally.
Bob Nahas, Eagle