Idaho groups form to fight far-right extremism
Clark Corbin, Idaho Capital Sun
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Ammon Bundy is dragged and then carried from the Idaho Senate Chambers gallery by Idaho State Police after returning to the Idaho Statehouse on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020 in Boise. Officers cited a statute before taking Bundy into custody a day after being arrested for refusing to leave a committee meeting. | Darin Oswald, Idaho Statesman
Lifelong Republican Jennifer Ellis almost doesn’t even recognize her own political party when she looks at some of Idaho’s far-right legislators that dominated the agenda this session.
“This far-right faction seems to be getting more traction and getting more people elected than ever before,” Ellis, a Blackfoot rancher, said in a telephone interview.
1 of 1 Emad Awadalla Taking Photos of People in Solidarity with Palestinians
About 100 people gathered in Downtown Boise Tuesday night to protest Israel’s most recent bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
One of the demonstrators Tuesday night was Emad Adwalla, a retired engineer whose grandfather fled Jerusalem in 1948 after Israel was declared a State. He and others at the rally condemned what he sees as Israeli human rights abuses in Gaza.
“This is basically people feeling frustrated,” Adwalla said, “And feeling like they need to voice their voices so that the rest of the community can hear that there are some people amongst us that stand for what’s going on in Gaza.”
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IMAGE: Researchers in the lab of Chunlei Guo, a professor of optics at the University of Rochester, have developed an optical coating that exhibits the same color in reflection (pictured) and. view more
Credit: University of Rochester photo/J. Adam Fenster
For more than a century, optical coatings have been used to better reflect certain wavelengths of light from lenses and other devices or, conversely, to better transmit certain wavelengths through them. For example, the coatings on tinted eyeglasses reflect, or block out, harmful blue light and ultraviolet rays.
But until now, no optical coating had ever been developed that could simultaneously reflect and transmit the same wavelength, or color.
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Even as vaccinations for COVID-19 are happening, Idaho is still being hit hard by the pandemic. Since March Idaho has had 123,517 confirmed cases of the virus, while the death toll for our state is more than 1,500.
That means more than 1,500 hundred families are coping with the loss of a loved one. So to honor those who have died, a statewide memorial is being planned for Jan. 14 to remember them.
Joining
Idaho Matters to talk more about this are event organizers with the group 97 Percent Nathaniel Hoffman, Mike Satz and retired pastor of Boise’s Vineyard Church Tri Robinson.