The City Club of Idaho Falls

Idaho Courts: Can They Remain Independent and Impartial in a Hyper-Partisan Era? Has the judiciary come to be regarded as a third political branch of government? Should judges be selected based on political affiliation and positions taken on issues likely to come before them? Does civic education provided by schools and the media adequately inform the public about the judicial process and reasons...

On Thursday Oct 26th in the Bennion Student Union at the ISU campus in Idaho Falls at Noon, The City Club of Idaho Falls hosted the candidates for Idaho Falls City Council. John Radford, Dawna Howard, Kirk Larsen, Barbara Miller and Michelle Ziel-Dingman. They were given the chance to give an opening statement on their platform, we had time for 3 broad generalized questions and then gave their clo...

Luke Mayville presented the case for "Idahoans for Open Primaries" for the City Club audience on Oct 19th. Its a hot topic in Idaho right now. If you are interested in finding out more click in and have a listen. The first 1/2 hour is Luke presenting his side, and the second 1/2 is Dr. David Adler presenting audience questions to Luke as he answers. It was a very interesting meeting, man...

Karole Honas moderated the discussion with Brenda Stanley, Kris Millgate , Nathan Sunderland, Kade Atwood News Director KIFI, & Calvin Pike General Manager KIFI. Karole called Kade and Calvin out of the audience and they were kind enough to fill in for Jay Hildebrandt who got sick that morning. We had a wonderful panel discussion on how news has changed over the years and the effects of AI on...

"Collaboration Across State Line for Common Success". Governors Cox and Little sat down with our Board Vice-President, Dana Kirkham, and had a great discussion on a variety of topics. Such as Growth, managing water resources, and education to name a few. Its definitely a program that is worth the listen. Thank you to Governor Brad Little and Governor Spencer Cox for visiting Idaho Falls...

Water is a hot topic in Idaho and Mat Weaver did a wonderful job breaking in down for us at our meeting on May 18. We so appreciate his time and efforts in bringing this information to us. We hope you enjoy this recording. Here is the link to the slides so that you can see the data he is referring to in his presentation. https://www.ifcityclub.com/media/5wkftchi/idwr_presentation_20230518.pdf

Really insightful and interesting meeting on the SVB impacts on our economy and community and what changes we might still see. We hope you will enjoy listening to this program. Here is the link to the PPP for Jeff Newgard on our website. https://www.ifcityclub.com/past-events-slides/

Zach Tudor - Associate Laboratory Director, National and Homeland Security at Idaho National Laboratory spoke to City Club members and guest on the Cyber Threats facing our Nation Today and what the INL is helping to do about them. My favorite question was "What keeps you up at night?", and he said the better question is "What keeps me getting up in the morning?". He doesn'...

It was great to have Ty Blackford on our City Club stage. He did a great job of giving us an overview of the work the Idaho Environmental Coalition does and his experience after 32 years in the clean up industry. Such a great, informative program. Thanks Mr. Blackford for giving us your time and knowledge.

Excellent Program on the City Club stage by Bill Manny and Lauren Melink "Behind the Scenes of Idaho Public Television". They discussed the importance of supporting education, delivering unbiased news, the challenges of documenting Idaho history, and future directions for Idaho Public Television. They also talked about their roles with the popular program Outdoor Idaho. https://www.kisu....

Implications of the 2022 Elections in Idaho

Fascinating insight to candidate Tom Arkoosh and his positions in his run for Attorney General in the upcoming election on November 8th.

You can go to the City Club website to access the Powerpoint presentations. https://www.ifcityclub.com/past-events-slides/

Great insight as the honorable B. Lynn Winmill discussed the constitutional right of privacy in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 142 S. Ct. 2228 (2022).

Listen to Luke Mayville speak to the CIty Club members on his passion for Education in Idaho and the Quality Education Act that will be on the ballot this November. "It's Time to Vote for Quality Education" -Idaho ranks dead last of 50 states in funding for K-12 education. We're facing a crisis-level teacher shortage with teacher pay near the lowest in the nation. School districts are cutting trad...

District 35, Wednesday April 27th Senate: Mark Harris (incumbent), Doug Toomer (challenger) House Seat A Kevin Andrus (incumbent), Jon Goode (challenger) House Seat B: Chad Christensen (incumbent), Josh Wheeler (challenger)

District 33, Tuesday April 26th Senator: Dave Lent (incumbent), Bryan Scholz (challenger) Declined Invite House Seat A: Barbara Ehardt (incumbent), Jeff Thompson (challenger)

District 32, Monday April 25th Senator: Kevin Cook (incumbent), Keith Newberry (challenger) House Seat A (open seat): Nicholas T. Christiansen (challenger), Stephanie Jo Mickelsen (challenger)

Dr. David Adler moderated the discussion between Incumbent Sherri Ybarra and challengers Branden Durst and Debbie Critchfield. Much was discussed in this 1.5 hour program. Per pupil spending, retaining teachers, Critical Race Theory, school choice among a few others. Come listen and get informed on making a choice in the upcoming Primary elections on May 17th. 

The evenings speakers were Jeff Carr and Karen Leibert, and this was the evenings talking points "Analyzing Putin's invasion of Ukraine." "What is Russia's Endgame?" "What is the future of Russia's relations with the West?" https://www.ifcityclub.com/past-events-slides/  -here are the respective slide shows you can look at while they are speaking.

Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden and challenger Raul Labrador displayed their differing visions for the office in a candidate Forum presented by the City Club of Idaho Falls.

Listen to Dr. Wagner update the community on: Exciting Projects in Energy and Security Net Zero – INL, a leader in the state and in the country Workforce Opportunities The Importance of Community Partnership. The PowerPoint is available on the City Club website under slides.

Listen to January's forum on the updates and happenings at the Campus of the College of Eastern Idaho.

Captain Sam Hulse, Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office

Theresa McKnight, CEO, Regional Economic Development for Eastern Idaho (REDI)