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Read Wayne's full piece here: https://idahofreedom.org/university-presidents-try-to-distract-from-their-leftist-propaganda/ Watch the video version of this podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVAEB6WS4ZY

Sen. Steven Thayn, chair of the Senate Education Committee, joins The Hoff Time Report to discuss education choice, social justice in higher education, and Idaho's Common Core replacement.  To watch the video, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J011hYoIM0o

The Left’s misuse of our own K-12 schools and higher education campuses can be halted, and it must be. Idaho lawmakers, the governor, the State Board of Education, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, every school board, and every parent needs to awaken to the reality of the situation, to continue to use and build on the work of the 1776 Commission to save Idaho and the rest of our nation...

In this episode of The Hoff Time Report, IFF President Wayne Hoffman takes the university presidents to task for their tuition freeze proposal. Additionally, Wayne crowns IFF's first-ever Statist of the Week. You'll love this new segment. Be sure to sign up for IFF's email list. Subscribe here: IdahoFreedom.org/Email Read and share Wayne's latest column here: https://IDFree.us/HoffTime0115

What did you think of Gov. Brad Little's State of the State address? 

Lawmakers have a lot on their dockets right now and the decisions they make will set Idaho's trajectory for years to come. Will they choose to limit government and empower individuals and families? Or, will they grow government, increase spending, and dump more money into failing government schools?  Wayne Hoffman offers his vision for a successful 2021 legislative session the latest episode...

Let’s begin 2021 with some potentially happy news from a place that hasn’t generated a lot of happy news of late: The University of Idaho. The school is closing a program on campus that is funded by Communist China. The program is called the Confucius Institute and it is one of hundreds of similar institutes located on university campuses in the U.S. and around the world. Foreign policy and nation...

Social justice activists have infiltrated the highest levels of the BSU administration. That harmful ideology is spreading across campus and perverting the search for truth.  Freedom-lovers can turn the tide, but it won’t be easy. IFF’s new report, Social Justice Ideology in Idaho Higher Education , details the problems with social justice running rampant in administrative offices, classrooms...

How much support do you give to radical leftist organizations? I posed this question to a conservative friend the other day. He furrowed his brow and looked at me like I was crazy. He’d never willingly lend his support to socialists, he assured me. The key word in his answer is “willingly.” You might substitute “knowingly.” Because he “unknowingly” lends his support to socialist causes and organiz...

Wayne Hoffman has a single item on his Christmas list this year.  Find out what he wants in the latest episode! 

Last week's coronavirus press conference was an embarrassment, but not for the reason some might guess. Idaho journalists took off their reporter caps and became full-blown advocates during the Q&A session with Gov. Brad Little. IFF President Wayne Hoffman and Dustin Hurst play the clips for you to show you how bad the press corps has grown. It's ugly, to say the least. 

It wasn’t so long ago that Idaho newspaper editorial pages and TV newscasters couldn’t shut up about Medicaid expansion. They’d opine almost daily on how wonderful it would be to extend the government entitlement program to thousands more participants in the Gem State. Media paraded would-be Medicaid clients in front of cameras as victims of conservative legislators’ inaction years after Obamacare...

In a little more than a month, Idaho’s public colleges and universities are supposed to report to state lawmakers what they’ve done to reduce administrative bloat and get back to their core missions. It’s hard to point to a single thing the schools have done to unwind the leftist, social justice-oriented indoctrination that has infiltrated deep into the bowels of Boise State University, the Univer...

If you're an Idaho taxpayer, you help fund a mouthpiece for left-wing propaganda: Boise State Public Radio. Thankfully, lawmakers can end this arrangement in the 2021 session and such a move wouldn't prove too difficult. But will lawmakers, who claim the mantle of limited government, actually work to limit government? Only time will tell. 

Did you know there's a way to dodge Boise Mayor Lauren McLean's mask mandate? Yup! Wayne discusses how to get around the mayor's new edicts in this podcast episode. He also turns to experts who reveal what's really going on in this pandemic. 

Fifteen years ago, I was part of a team of Idaho state government officials involved in planning for the next pandemic. Because of my media expertise (almost 20 years in journalism) I worked on the group tasked with developing a plan for communicating with the media and the public in times of crisis. The number-one responsibility then for government communications experts operating in the midst of...

What if I told you that leftists in our country were busy trying to develop their own version of a utopian government in America? You wouldn’t be terribly surprised. In fact, that’s fairly obvious, right? But what if I told you that the Left had already successfully developed and implemented their warped system of government? And they did it right here in Idaho? It’s happened. It happened 3 years...

Idaho Freedom Foundation President Wayne Hoffman says Idaho's four-year college and universities have done nothing to deserve more money from students. Thus, Hoffman suggests, ed leaders should enact another year-long tuition freeze. If they don't, state lawmakers should do it for them. 

Boise State University officials would have the public believe they didn’t chase police-supporting Big City Coffee from campus. But university officials didn’t exactly encourage the small business to stay. At a minimum, the controversy has helped expose an ongoing effort from within the school’s administration and student body to make allegiance to a social justice agenda a condition for doing bus...

IFF President Wayne Hoffman responds to Gov. Brad Little's decision to move Idaho back to Stage 3 in the state's reopening plan. 

It’s a shame that the union bosses in the West Ada School District thought it was a good idea to yank parents and students around with a two-day “sick out” strike. This audacious and disgusting political posturing did nothing but throw chaos into the lives of children and families. I hope these parents prevail in their lawsuit against the union. They must.

What in the world is going on in the West Ada School District? Why aren't union teachers showing up to work? The Liberty Justice Center's Daniel Suhr, local attorney Edward Dindinger, and IFF President Wayne Hoffman talk about the union's tactics and how families are fighting back in this episode of The Hoff Time Report.

Wayne Hoffman gives his take on the constitutional amendment on Idahoans' ballots and debunks some popular myths about the measure. 

Gov. Brad Little recently announced that the state is on track to end the fiscal year with a budget surplus of more than half a billion dollars, or roughly 14 percent of the state’s general fund budget. That admission potentially added a whole new level of complexity to an already daunting prospective 2021 legislative session.

Recently, local governments were presented with an opportunity to offer modest tax relief to Idahoans. Some took the offer, while too many others declined. IFF President Wayne Hoffman explains what happened in this episode of The Hoff Time Report. Plus, IFF Education Policy Analyst Anna K. Miller invites you to take part in an ed choice forum that's scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 15.  Additiona...