My State Banned Vaccine Mandates. Here’s How I Covered It as an Idaho Journalist.
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The Idaho Medical Freedom Act, which makes it illegal to require almost anyone to take a vaccine, test or other “medical intervention,” comes amid a national measles outbreak larger than the U.S. has seen in decades.
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-vaccine-mandate-ban-reporter-story?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Journalism #Idaho #Vaccines #Health #Medicine #PublicHealth #Measles

@ProPublica
Let me see if I got this.

Now, in Idaho, only the vaccinated kids can be sent home from school during an outbreak?

#ID #Idaho #MedicalMalpractice #CommunicableDisease #measles #Covid19

The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” for the rest of the country.

https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-vaccine-bill-medical-freedom-act-maha?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #USPolitics #Idaho #Vaccines #Health

In 2024, lawmakers celebrated the largest investment in Idaho’s history to fix its schools. But only a handful will be able to fully address challenges to accessibility.

At least 10 districts reported in 2023 that their bathrooms, gyms and cafeterias weren’t all accessible for students with disabilities, with some unable to get their lunch or attend classes on second floors.
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-schools-students-disabilities-ada-accessibility?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Idaho #Education #Accessibility #Disability #Students #School

#Lifegoals:

You win an illustrious prize

But you have no idea

Because you're in #digitaldetox and completely unreachable

'Jeffrey Bluestone, a friend of Ramsdell’s and co-founder of the lab, said the researcher deserves credit but he can’t reach him, either.

“I have been trying to get a hold of him myself. I think he may be backpacking in the backcountry in #Idaho,” Bluestone told AFP.'

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/07/nobel-committee-unable-to-reach-medicine-prize-winner-hiking-off-grid

#Nobel #NobelPrize #Medicine

#Lifegoals:

You win an illustrious prize

But you have no idea

Because you're in #digitaldetox and completely unreachable

'Jeffrey Bluestone, a friend of Ramsdell’s and co-founder of the lab, said the researcher deserves credit but he can’t reach him, either.

“I have been trying to get a hold of him myself. I think he may be backpacking in the backcountry in #Idaho,” Bluestone told AFP.'

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/07/nobel-committee-unable-to-reach-medicine-prize-winner-hiking-off-grid

#Nobel #NobelPrize #Medicine

#Parents say it can take months to evaluate students, and in some cases #schools have refused to provide needed services.

#News#Government #Education#Kids

https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-special-education-disabilities-complaints

When Clayton Strong drove his wife’s body to a hospital in Idaho, the coroner took his word that it was a natural death.

Five years later, Strong’s next wife turned up dead too: shot in the chest in Texas.
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-coroners-clayton-strong-wives-murder?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Idaho #DomesticViolence#Women#TrueCrime#Crime#Murder

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➡️ @idaho@a.gup.pe - Discussion group about Idaho, USA

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🌤️ Weather accounts for Idaho, USA. Follow a town or city to see its forecasts in your timeline:
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➡️ @span beer - News about craft beer & beer events in Idaho, Oregon, Washington State, Canada

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People always enjoy taking a look around others' work spaces, and for this BLAG Meet (https://bl.ag/meet) we'll get a peek behind the doors of Jay Smith's studio/workshop in Idaho.

This will include a browse through some of the classic sign painting books that he was lucky to get his hands on recently, as reported here: https://bl.ag/bookish-good-luck-at-mclellan-signs-in-nampa-idaho/.

#SignPainting#SignPainters#Boise#Idaho