Lauren Necochea

2 weeks ago | sandpointreader.com | Lauren Necochea

By Lauren NecocheaReader StaffIt takes real strength to fight for the people you serve. But today’s Republican Party has abandoned that idea completely. From Washington to Boise, they’ve replaced courage with performance, loud declarations of “toughness” that vanish when real leadership is required. Too afraid to step out of line, they cast votes that leave Idaho worse off. Take Gov. Brad Little. He used to oppose school voucher schemes.

3 weeks ago | idahostatejournal.com | Lauren Necochea

If you want to know who a politician values, look at their budget. House Republicans just passed a federal budget that makes their priorities painfully clear: handouts for billionaires, paid for by working families, including thousands of Idahoans. Nearly 60 percent of the tax cuts go to the wealthiest 20 percent of households, and more than a third go to people making over $460,000 a year. Meanwhile, families in Twin Falls, Caldwell, and Pocatello are told to pay more and make do with less.

4 weeks ago | magicvalley.com | Lauren Necochea

Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS Feed | SoundStack | All Of Our Podcasts If you want to know who a politician values, look at their budget. House Republicans just passed a federal budget that makes their priorities painfully clear: handouts for billionaires, paid for by working families, including thousands of Idahoans. Nearly 60 percent of the tax cuts go to the wealthiest 20 percent of households, and more than a third go to people making over $460,000 a year.

1 month ago | postregister.com | Lauren Necochea

To billionaires, recessions mean disappointing stock returns. To working families, they mean shuttered small businesses, layoffs, lost homes and telling a graduate that college is out of reach. Recessions erase the American dream for too many families. Now, Trump and his billionaire backers are driving us into a deep recession while Idaho’s top Republicans aid and abet the damage. The Trump regime’s reckless, on-and-off-again import taxes or tariffs are slamming our economy.

1 month ago | idahostatejournal.com | Lauren Necochea

Lawmakers are elected to serve the people of Idaho by the people of Idaho. Any Idahoan who approaches our elected leaders with concerns should be treated with dignity and respect. Sadly, we saw an utter breakdown of this basic decency during a recent legislative panel at the College of Eastern Idaho. Dr. Jennifer Cook, one of the state’s leading medical educators, tried to explain to lawmakers the harm caused to Idaho patients by the state’s extreme abortion bans.