Colorado Dragon Boat, a Denver-based group celebrating and promoting Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities across the state, had a tough 2020.
The nonprofit was able to pull off last year s edition of the Colorado Dragon Boat Film Festival. The annual event, which was launched in 2016, took place just before the cultural scene came to a screeching halt over COVID-19. But over the summer, the signature Colorado Dragon Boat Festival which started in 2001, later giving rise to the film fest and other related activities was canceled and replaced with a virtual event. While the online offering wasn t as thrilling as the races on Sloan s Lake the most comprehensive in the country the organization was happy to have a chance to connect with its community, which desperately needed something to rally around.
BY KEVIN RICHERT / IdahoEdNews.org
Originally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on Feb. 25, 2021
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In case you haven’t been keeping a running tally, Wednesday, March 3, will be Day 52 of Idaho’s 2021 legislative session.
For the state’s colleges and universities, the session will begin in earnest Wednesday.
That’s the day when the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee will write budget bills for the state’s four-year colleges and universities, and community colleges.
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Hannah Stephenson, student body president at Preston High School, is spending the next several weeks in Boise as a page at the Idaho Legislature. She is one of seven high school seniors from around the state to do so.
Stephenson began her term on Monday, Jan. 11, and will work for six weeks, until Feb. 19. She was assigned to work with the education committee, and is the assistant to Sen. Steven Thayne from Emmett. She has taken minutes, was keeper of the door, has run errands, delivered mail and made copies. In addition to the education she is getting, she is also bringing home a paycheck â but she doesnât know how much that will be yet, she said. Payday hadnât come and definitely wasnât the reason she wanted the job.
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BOISE (IdahoEdNews.org) Idaho’s biggest, wildest political season is almost here and the stakes and uncertainty are as high as ever.
The first session of the 66
th Idaho Legislature gavels in Monday.
At 1 p.m., Gov. Brad Little’s State of the State address will highlight the opening day. He will speak remotely from a Statehouse auditorium, a departure from the traditional practice of speaking from the House floor with all three branches of government squeezed into one room.
Usually a bumpy ride, with plenty of surprises and divided debates even in normal times, this year’s session promises to be especially unpredictable.