Posts that cover the broad issue of fairness in society in regard to jobs, insurance, business startup, etc.

Fight Fire With Fire 

The current makeup of the Supreme Court seems designed to rescind long-fought-for decisions to promote civil justice. Russell Geiman makes a case for Democrats to be bold, fight the gerrymandering which has created this court, and restore ideological balance, even if takes expanding the court's membership.

Data Centers: Talk of the Panhandle

The topic of data centers is contentious for communities actually or potentially impacted by them. It's so contentious that our Republican dominated legislature has taken away the rights of these communities to regulate them and even to have them at all. John Doyle makes the case that these community rights legislated away for now have to be reconsidered and restored in future legislative sessions.

Raylee’s Law Failure to Pass

Jenny Thacker, in a video recording, details the arguments for Raylee's Law and then goes on to describe the legislature's inaction in passing any of three versions. Any of the three would have included some provision in the law to provide oversight over the HOPE Scholarship program. This oversight could have prevented Raylee Browning's death at age eight.