My father was a stoic man. When prostate cancer came for him, he faced it without complaint. His doctors were skilled and caring; they did everything we could expect from them. But the one thing they could not do was see, in real time, exactly where the radiation was landing inside his body. How much of it was hitting the tumor? Was it striking tissue that should have been left alone?
With concerns for human, environmental, and economic health, we support a county moratorium on permitting construction of local hyperscale data centers to encourage transparency and allow time for informed community engagement.
In 2019, my wife and I opened Cathedral with a simple belief: people want to help – they just need a place to start. We began as an event space rooted in a desire to give back and started working alongside young men impacted by incarceration, offering employment, mentorship and a consistent community where they could grow and succeed.
My story could be just another tale of economic stress: the increasing price of doing business being at odds with customers’ ability to pay for the service. There is some of that, for sure. But in the end, it is also a story of price gouging, political virtue signaling and morality.
The Mountain West has become one of the nation’s fastest-growing regions, but the latest labor market data show that neighboring states are taking different paths and seeing different outcomes.
I sued a large corporation in small claims court, represented myself, and won. The judge awarded me $10,000, the maximum Washington allows. It still wasn’t enough to cover what I’d lost.
In June 2025, my 31-year-old daughter, Kiara Sewell, was brutally killed in Seattle, leaving behind four young children, a grieving family and a community searching for answers. Kiara was a devoted mother of four whose life was taken far too soon by an act of violence. Her death forever changed our family and left an unimaginable void that can never be filled. It also led me to ask difficult questions about public safety, accountability and whether more could have been done to prevent this tragedy.
Despite claims from some that prioritizing tax relief would imperil Idaho’s budget, the Gem State has just closed the books on Fiscal Year 2026, ending in the black while rolling over approximately $250 million in cash balances to the General Fund for Fiscal Year 2027. Idaho also currently has nearly $1.3 billion in total reserves (22%) to weather any changes in the economic outlook.
