{"id":15370,"date":"2021-02-08T21:21:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T21:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=15370"},"modified":"2021-02-08T21:33:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T21:33:39","slug":"district-26-lawmakers-in-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/08\/district-26-lawmakers-in-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"District 26 Lawmakers In Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>District 26 Lawmakers In Spotlight<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15371\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15371\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15371\" src=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Davis5370.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Davis5370.jpg 214w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Davis5370-150x191.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Representative Muffy Davis. Photo credit: State of Idaho<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The state\u2019s lawmaking body has been in session less than a few weeks and already District 26\u2019s elected officials are finding themselves in controversies. And both situations don\u2019t have to do with any particular bill under consideration.<\/p>\n<p>State Senator Michelle Stennett (D) confirmed to the local media that the high-profile Croy Street Exchange Building at the corner of River and Croy streets in downtown Hailey will be turned into workforce housing. Stennett is a co-owner of the building.<\/p>\n<p>In a resort town with sky-high real estate prices and a high number of working-class residents, that should be entirely good news. But, according to a report in the Mountain Express, at least some current business tenants feel Stennett\u2019s 30-day eviction notice caught them off guard.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15372\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15372\" src=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Stennett1169-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Stennett1169-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Stennett1169-150x191.jpg 150w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Stennett1169-300x381.jpg 300w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Stennett1169-330x420.jpg 330w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Stennett1169.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Senator Michelle Stennett. Photo credit: State of Idaho<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>State Representative Muffy Davis (D) made both statewide and national news recently. Several weeks ago, Muffy and Rep. Sue Chew (D-Boise) filed a lawsuit against Idaho Speaker of the House Scott Bedke (R-Oakley). Davis and Chew were asking for remote work accommodations to be made for them while in session because of preexisting conditions that make them more susceptible to contracting COVID-19. Davis is a paraplegic and Chew has diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Jan. 15, the Idaho House voted along party lines to reject the request. However, Bedke and the two representatives are still seeking an in-person work alternative that would better mitigate their COVID-related concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>District 26 Lawmakers In Spotlight The state\u2019s lawmaking body has been in session less than a few weeks and already District 26\u2019s elected officials are finding themselves in controversies. And both situations don\u2019t have to do with any particular bill under consideration. State Senator Michelle Stennett (D) confirmed to the local media that the high-profile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,84,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-idaho","7":"category-in-brief","8":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15373,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15370\/revisions\/15373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}