Yesterday, I attended a leadership presentation along with several other public leaders in the Magic Valley.  The presenter was Keith Allred, a Twin Falls native who has gone on to receive several degrees from all over the country and work as a professor at Havard.  Normally this wouldn’t be something to blog about, however, Keith is the founder of an interesting non-profit non-partisan group called The Common Interest whose work is to choose three legislative items from the Idaho State legislature, do research, and have the members state their opinions; these opinions are then put together and given to the legislature in order to provide them with what the “common interest” is saying about these issues.  Keith calls his group the anti-special interest special interest group since he has to function much like a lobbyist when passing along this information.  I plan to become a member of his group and thought there might be others in the library community who would like to check out his site to see you might have an interest. www.thecommoninterest.com  Happy Friday!