Idahoans have always been proud of their heritage as tough, independent, can-do people. It’s time to honor that heritage, cowboy up and get va… Read more
Mountain vacation destinations like Sun Valley and the Sawtooth Mountains are unusually crowded this summer. Read more
It’s hard to make a convincing case to a child, or an adult for that matter, that a gun is not a toy if it’s made with Lego blocks. Culver Pre… Read more
If you are an Idaho taxpayer, the overwhelmingly Republican Legislature is putting your money where its mouth is. Read more
In 2017, Idaho ranked as the number one most difficult place for employees to jump ship to a competitor. President Joe Biden just signed an ex… Read more
The Sawtooth National Recreation Area is the heart of Idaho, with its delicate peaks, crashing creeks and lakes. Read more
America’s immigration system is broken. Propaganda makes the damage worse. Read more
Procrastination is a human habit that normally is just an annoyance. Yet, it can turn lethal. Read more
The freedoms that the nation will celebrate on this Independence Day weekend are powerful. They are most powerful when Americans use them together. Read more
The Warm Springs bear that raided garbage cans and began to protect those food sources as though her life depended on it is a dead bear walking. Read more
The specter of Alzheimer’s disease and its harsh reality make the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the first new drug to treat it si… Read more
Rentals, rentals everywhere and not a place to live. This takeoff on the words of 19th-century poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge perfectly describe… Read more
Last week, a new national holiday was added to the calendar and celebrated with a day off before a number of Americans had even heard of it. T… Read more
As the post-pandemic boom in gatherings and celebrations grows, unvaccinated Idahoans should think about the train that is screaming toward th… Read more
Idaho has a distinctive shape with its panhandle in the north attached to its axe-head in the south. The idea of bringing seven Oregon countie… Read more
The past 16 months have been tough. For some, times are still tough. For too many, their brains are stuck in tough times. Acting like the time… Read more
The cities of Ketchum and Sun Valley should vigorously pursue an increase in the local-option sales tax on short-term condominium rentals and … Read more
The U. S. Senate had its chance to show that bipartisanship is possible. Instead, Republican senators proved that it is not. Legislation favor… Read more
The silence from Idaho’s U.S. Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch on why they helped sink the establishment of an independent bipartisan commission… Read more
The U.S. government must take immediate steps to prevent foreign criminals and other enemies from hacking the computer systems that support th… Read more
The housing shortage is no less threatening to our mountain towns than a wildfire. Every city government in Blaine County should treat the sho… Read more
The so-called “audit” of ballots being done in Maricopa County, Ariz., by a private contractor has turned into a lesson for other states consi… Read more
On Jan. 6, insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol and sent lawmakers fleeing in fear for their lives. The fight between law enforcement and… Read more
The Republican Party has long claimed to be the political party willing to go to war to protect Americans. Now its members are proving that protection is only for some of us as they pursue a war against the right of women, and men, to make their most personal decision: when to have a child.
Idaho Republicans have a fantastic opportunity in their 2022 primary election. With their votes, they can show the world who the people of the state really are—and who they are not.
For the past year, sporadic posts in the miscellany section of this newspaper have debated what makes a real local.
Mud season has gone missing in central Idaho. Its disappearance and the resulting high risk of wildfire on public lands will threaten the local economy unless public agencies take steps to reduce it.
Studying how race has affected human history will not poison young minds. Discussing how the present is shaped by the past is not some communist plot. Everyone losing their minds over critical race theory should stop believing nonsense.
Ketchum’s experiment in creating affordable market-rate apartments for local workers just failed spectacularly little more than a year after it began.
Bellevue Mayor Ned Burns said last week that the city will continue to employ a deputy marshal who posted a controversial TikTok video that went viral. He said the matter is being handled internally.
Continued use of the big lie by the Republican Party is an existential threat to democracy. Most of us aren’t paying enough attention.
Arguments over the meaning of the word “infrastructure” are being used to try to sink President Joe Biden’s economic plan. If a traditional understanding of the word prevails, America will fail to make investments critical to its success.
The battle cry for this year’s bumper crop of Idaho Republican legislators has been: “If it ain’t broke, we’ll fix it!
Systemic racism, the public and private policies that create and reinforce advantages for some communities over others, plagues the United States. The financial industry, banking in particular, needs to step up to change the pattern.
Communities in the Wood River Valley are more than collections of homes. They are collections of people who traded mainline careers and higher incomes for access to hiking trails and the sight of the twinkling lights of the Milky Way.
The big lie that voter fraud stole the 2020 election from former President Donald Trump is diverting attention away from a more insidious lie, one that says the press is the enemy of the people. Without the press, the people will have no defense against either lie.
Idaho is about to declare war on wolves. In a blindingly swift action, the Senate approved a bill that could enable the wholesale destruction of 1,400 of the estimated 1,500 wolves in the state. It would reduce their numbers to a sickly few.
A draft proposal for an America First Caucus was leaked to the press last week. News of it appeared on Friday and advocates withdrew it on Sunday.
The move by the Idaho House to prohibit public health orders that require the public to wear masks is anti-business, anti-worker and pro-illness.
The Idaho Legislature became a theater of the absurd this week when its members returned from a hiatus intended to halt COVID-19 in the mostly mask-free session. Unfortunately, the hiatus did nothing to stop the whackadoodle notions and motions coming out of the House this year.
For four years, former President Donald Trump promised an infrastructure proposal that never appeared. President Joe Biden has now rolled out a plan with a more than $2 trillion price tag. Stakeholders should resist trying to score immediate political points and consider instead how to stop …
In its latest bid to become “king” of Idaho, the Legislature approved a bill that would make it nearly impossible to get a citizens initiative on the ballot.
Last month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R.1, the For the People Act. Now it is the Senate’s turn to pass S.1, its designation for the same bill, and protect Americans’ right to make their own political choices.
After President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan last month, educators across the country began to formulate programs to fix the damage that students have sustained as a result of school closures and remote learning during the pandemic year.
Vaccinations that will help humans resist COVID-19 have left recipients with the feeling that the confining windows of a global pandemic may finally be opening. People within the Sun Valley area along with other Americans are beginning to think about what comes next.
It’s time to make buying a gun enough of a hassle to discourage those who may want to do so in the heat of the moment.
American exceptionalism happens when the nation set its mind to something and uses the power of government to achieve it.
Education, organization and activism are powerful. Just ask the groups that joined together to oppose wolf trapping in Blaine County and succeeded last week in convincing the Idaho Fish and Game Commission to ban it here.
Female college athletes rarely get the same attention and respect from sports fans as male athletes. They should be able to expect it from the NCAA.
The gap between the amount that local workers earn and the price of housing in Blaine County will transform the area in ways that few people envision today.
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