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EDITOR’S NOTE MUST-READ, MUST-SEE, MUST-EAT We have a wide variety to offer you this week. Up front, it’s pretty serious stuff as we take a deep dive into the current battle for medical treatment for an Idaho inmate. To begin with, the inmate identifies as, and is legally known as, female. That, in spite of the fact that she’s housed in a men’s prison south of Boise. Secondly, she is diagnosed with gender dysphoria. “I feel I lose a pinch of hope, day by day,” Adree Edmo told Boise Weekly. Edmo’s attorneys were successful in a federal court battle that resulted in a order to Idaho to provide gender reassignment surgery. But Idaho officials have decided to appeal the ruling to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In this week’s BW, we have an exclusive with Ms. Edmo, plus the attorneys and state officials who will soon take their arguments over the inmate’s fate to the Ninth Circuit. Keep in mind, the State of Idaho hasn’t fared too well in the Ninth Circuit. For instance, the attorneys defending Ms. Edmo are the same team that successfully beat the State of Idaho on the issue of same sex marriage in 2014. See my feature story on pages 6 and 7. For something much lighter, BW’s Lex Nelson takes us along on a visit to Donut Ever Forget Me, a mouth-watering new exhibit at the Boise Art Museum, on page 8. It’s a bit of a stunner to learn that such the wildly-vibrant exhibit is the work of a colorblind artist. On page 9, BW’s Harrison Berry spends some time chatting with prima ballerina Isabella Boylston and pop sensation Rosalind “Rozzi” Crane, who are collaborating for a show dubbed When I Think of You, at the just-opened Argyros Performing Arts Center in Ketchum. Lex makes a return appearance on page 10 to get us all in the mood for Chinese New Year, which comes on Tuesday, Feb. 5. This year’s festivities will celebrate “The Year of the Pig.” Up next, we’ve got your exclusive four-page pullout winter movie guide at The Flicks on pages 11-14. And I’ll be back on page 15 to entice you to see a wonderful new film, Cold War, nominated for three Oscars, and set to open this Friday, Feb. 1 at (where else?) The Flicks. —George Prentice, Editor
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TAKE FIVE INSIDE BOISE STATE’S 2019 IDAHO PUBLIC POLICY SURVE Y ARE FIVE BIG TAKE AWAYS : EDUCATION IS STILL THE M O ST I M P O RTAN T I S S U E TO I DA H OA N S , IDAHOANS WOULD R AISE TA XES TO INCRE ASE FUNDING FOR PRE-K, RE ACTION IS MIXED ON LO CAL OPTION TA XES, THUMB S UP TO CLE AN ENERGY AND MIXED SIGNALS ON NE T ME TERING. RE AD MORE AT NE WS/CIT YDESK.
BUILDING THE FORT The slate for Storyfort, the all-things-wordy portion of Treefort, has been unveiled, including a diverse group of poets, fiction writers and refugee storytellers. Read more at Arts & Culture/Lit.
PROVOCATIVE PERFORMANCE The Visual Arts Collective will be the venue of The Menstrual Show: Fruit from the Bush of Knowledge will be a grab bag of performance art, burlesque and pole dancing. Read more at Arts & Culture/ Stage.
GROUNDED, FOR NOW The partial federal government shutdown stalled the approval process for the much-anticipated flights from the mainland to the Hawaiian islands by Southwest Airlines. Read more at News/Citydesk.
OPINION
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OPINION ‘WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER?’ Over the past several years we have met with legislators from both sides of the aisle and from both parties trying to find a way to stop children dying from faith-based medical neglect. The response is that this is too complex of an issue involving parental rights, religious freedom and constitutional protections. The Idaho House members say they are willing to support change to religious exemptions if we can get the Idaho Senate to go along, and the Senate says we need the House first. Cutting through all the political rhetoric it comes down to this.Should the children of Idaho be suffering and dying because of someone else’s belief? True, the “someone else” is the child’s parent, so let me rephrase that: Should the children of Idaho be suffering and dying because of their parent’s belief? The answer is “no.” It is that simple. Humanity has solved many complex issues: harnessing electricity, getting a 350-
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ton jet to fly, going to the moon and many others. Surely the Idaho Legislature can solve this. Here is a clue, STOP. The Idaho Legislature enacted laws that created this problem. Only they can change the laws to make it stop. Don’t stop parents from believing. They have every right to believe anything they want. Just stop them from harming others because of their beliefs. To simplify this let me pose a question: If history repeats itself, over the next decade, 30-40 more Idaho children will die from treatable illnesses caused by faith-based medical neglect. Imagine that all these children are in a school classroom together and the teacher invites you to speak with them. One of the children asks you “Why do we all have to die because of someone else’s beliefs?” What is your answer? —Bruce Wingate, Founder, Protect Idaho Kids Foundation
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