Idaho House Bill 195 deserves a big “Say what?” It would criminalize picketing or demonstrations on a public street or sidewalk in front of a … Read more
As a group of brilliant scientists and engineers landed a research rover on the surface of Mars, ending an exquisitely complicated 300-million… Read more
Governments often fail to protect the health and safety of citizens during catastrophic weather events. Read more
Blaine County and its cities are fast losing their institutional memories. Read more
As a professional educator who spent 13 years teaching in a high-poverty elementary school, I have seen firsthand the important role public ed… Read more
Congressman Simpson’s $33 billion proposal to breach the four lower dams on the Snake River is quite a read. My review of this unique and cost… Read more
The freedom of Idaho citizens is being threatened. Our common voice and rights—guaranteed by Idaho’s Constitution—are being jeopardized. How? … Read more
In this pandemic that is in an escalating stage why aren’t the valley enforcement agencies working with the businesses that cater to tourists … Read more
We are writing to voice our vehement opposition to wolf trapping in Blaine County (or anywhere else). Killing wolves is bad for wildlife, comm… Read more
I am against trapping. Traps pose a threat and danger to people, domestic pets and wildlife (targeted and nontargeted). It is not humane, requ… Read more
The Biden administration is going into high gear to set the federal minimum wage at $15 per hour. Around 2% of the national workforce works fo… Read more
Even if it hasn’t been published, every newspaper in Idaho has an obituary for Idaho’s salmon somewhere in its files. Stop the presses and don… Read more
The Idaho Trappers Association wants wolf trapping in Blaine County and the Idaho Fish and Game Commission is hearing the proposal in March. R… Read more
The consideration of the city of Hailey to end support of the efforts of ICE is nothing more than a poorly disguised first step toward making … Read more
Why is Idaho Fish and Game’s wolf control board spending $400,000 of your tax dollars each year killing your native wildlife? From July 2019 t… Read more
Sun Valley, Idaho, was named the No. 1 ski destination by Ski magazine in 2020 and Blaine County boasts world-class recreation on our summer a… Read more
Salmon and steelhead have been a part of Idaho for thousands of years, and our clear mountain streams have been their home. Now they are endan… Read more
For those of us 70 and over who were instructed to sign up for COVID vaccinations on Feb. 1 at 8 a.m., could the powers that be stop treating … Read more
Anyone who ever wondered what the phrases “tying yourself up in knots” and “gaslighting” mean need look no further than U.S. Senate Minority L… Read more
Every argument in the book against housing for people with jobs is on the record somewhere within the Wood River Valley. No new or persuasive … Read more
When the facts aren’t with you in an argument, you call people names. That’s what is happening with the debate on Bluebird. The mayor in his F… Read more
Concerned hikers, dog lovers and equestrians, should unite and take a moment to support banning wolf trapping in our valley. Email the Fish and Game at commission@idfg.idaho.gov.
Idaho’s U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch are at a crossroads of conscience.
The current pandemic has gone on long enough, and we have a glimmer of hope that it will all end soon as more and more Idahoans get vaccinated. To move this process steadily forward, we must come together as a community and we must go back to our Idaho way of life, where we worked together a…
It turns out that Idaho’s Medicaid expansion program arrived just in time.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—AOC for short—is an outspoken Democrat from New York City.
We read about the unfortunate incident involving Michelle Stennett and her dog and would like to extend our sympathies for what must have been a very harrowing experience. This was a very regrettable incident that no responsible trapper wants to cause.
It’s time to set aside frustration, if only for a few minutes at a time. It’s time to look up and look out at our famous Sun Valley blue skies and sparkling snow.
I oppose the use of leghold traps. On Jan. 19, the Blaine County commissioners held a hearing on wolf trapping. They provided Idaho Fish and Game input on the 2021-22 trapping/hunting season from Aug. 1 to June 30 in Units 48 and 49. Public comments flooded their offices and Greg Cameron, Ma…
This past week, I decided to listen in on the city meeting pertaining to the proposed, and now accepted, boutique hotel slated for the southwest corner of River and Main streets. I didn’t hold many opinions on the project, but that changed during the meeting when I realized that it ignored m…
The developer of the proposed workforce housing project on the site of the current Ketchum City Hall has chosen to name the project after Idaho’s state bird. That is an example of misleading and false advertising. The project, so lacking in appropriate parking and so noisily grand in scope, …
Our valley is making great progress toward our clean energy goals! Having three of our cities and Blaine County recently commit to climate action is crucial.
We are not opposed to a campground in Hailey. We are, however, opposed to the process that the Hailey City Council fast-tracked it in already rapidly growing Croy Canyon. Fire danger/traffic increase/safety issues/trash/waste removal/noise/light pollution/toxic snowmelt from adjacent snow re…
We are a small town in Idaho. We are a nationally ranked ski resort. We are both these things. We have attracted a rich clientele who appreciate our ski mountain and the culture that has been built up around it. And because of them and the charity of our local people, I can be grateful for a…
Put on your crash helmets, here come the COVID-19 coronavirus mutations.
There are those of us who don’t believe Democrats eat children. We don’t see coronavirus vaccines as part of a nefarious mind-control plot. We don’t think President Joe Biden’s inauguration was faked and that former President Donald Trump will be inaugurated to a second term on March 4.
I look forward to the day that workforce housing projects are not viewed with fear but with excitement, expectation and opportunity. For we all know that the character and soul of Ketchum is not just about our mountains and our buildings, it is about the people who live here and contribute t…
Appointments that would have squelched the Voice of America and other media outlets were reversed in the first hours of the Biden administration.
Inexcusable chaos in the delivery of COVID vaccine to Idahoans over the age of 65 began over the weekend.
Idaho Power has been trying to get an overhead transmission line in our scenic view corridor for the past six years. The Blane County Planning and Zoning Commission and Board of County Commissioners have done an outstanding job reviewing, denying, rehearing, reconditioning, etc., conditional…
Our homes are full of disposable objects that can be easily replaced with their reusable counterparts. By reducing your consumption of these five common household disposables, you can diminish the amount of unnecessary waste that ends up in landfills.
I recently heard from a St. Luke’s employee that not everyone who makes an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccination actually shows up for that appointment so the vaccine dose goes to waste. I, and others I know, would be happy to show up at any time of the day or night to receive that soon-to-…
There is a bill, HCR001, in the House State Affairs Committee to end the emergency declaration ordered by Gov. Brad Little in response to COVID-19. Termination of the emergency declaration would make Idaho ineligible for federal funding related to the pandemic. The funding includes adminis…
The Jan. 27 issue of the Idaho Statesman reports that Idaho’s South Central Public Health District has offered COVID vaccine to its board members—“county commissioners or county-appointed representatives”—because the board considers them to be “public health workers.” The Statesman reports t…
Concerning the proposed Bluebird project, both Perry Boyle’s full-page paid letter (Jan. 20 issue of this paper) and GMD development’s response (Jan. 22 edition) raise valid points. I’m happy to see such an in-depth presentation of the issues involved for the pubic to consider. But the proje…
Here we go again. Someone with his own nice place to live has decided to weigh in on affordable housing in Ketchum. Well, bully for him and his expensive attempts to sabotage the Bluebird project. He’s merely the latest in a long line of those who would cobble together questionable facts in …
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