Arguments over the meaning of the word “infrastructure” are being used to try to sink President Joe Biden’s economic plan. If a traditional un… Read more
The battle cry for this year’s bumper crop of Idaho Republican legislators has been: “If it ain’t broke, we’ll fix it! Read more
Systemic racism, the public and private policies that create and reinforce advantages for some communities over others, plagues the United Sta… Read more
Communities in the Wood River Valley are more than collections of homes. They are collections of people who traded mainline careers and higher… Read more
The big lie that voter fraud stole the 2020 election from former President Donald Trump is diverting attention away from a more insidious lie,… Read more
Idaho is about to declare war on wolves. In a blindingly swift action, the Senate approved a bill that could enable the wholesale destruction … Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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… Read more
For four years, former President Donald Trump promised an infrastructure proposal that never appeared. President Joe Biden has now rolled out … Read more
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… Read more
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 f… Read more
After President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan last month, educators across the country began to formulate programs to fix the dama… Read more
Vaccinations that will help humans resist COVID-19 have left recipients with the feeling that the confining windows of a global pandemic may f… Read more
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. Read more
American exceptionalism happens when the nation set its mind to something and uses the power of government to achieve it. Read more
Education, organization and activism are powerful. Just ask the groups that joined together to oppose wolf trapping in Blaine County and succe… Read more
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. Read more
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 e… Read more
Unless Gov. Brad Little utilizes his big red veto stamp, cow pies will become more valuable and more important than human health in Idaho. Read more
More daylight is welcome as the cold and dark of winter give way to spring. Forcing clock changes twice a year often isn’t. Having made the sw… Read more
The Legislature’s 2021 theme song should be an adaptation of a song titled “Merry Minuet,” popularized by the Kingston Trio in the 1950s and ’60s. Read more
Someday, science will be able to show that 24/7 politics kills brain cells. So, take a break and think about something that’s really important… Read more
Voting should be easy and accessible for every citizen. Several states are trying to make it harder. Passage of the For the People Act, H.R.1,… Read more
Some Idaho legislators have declared war on local government. It’s not a war fought with arms and explosives. It’s more insidious, but just as destructive.
Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., likely will be the first Native American named to lead the federal agency that has the most influence over the lands and issues that affect the nation’s indigenous people.
Idahoans who don’t buy hunting or fishing licenses might as well have one foot in a leg-hold trap when they try to lobby most of the members of the Idaho Fish and Game Commission.
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 residence “with the intent to harass, annoy or alarm another person.”
Governments often fail to protect the health and safety of citizens during catastrophic weather events.
Blaine County and its cities are fast losing their institutional memories.
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’t close the lid on the coffin yet.
Anyone who ever wondered what the phrases “tying yourself up in knots” and “gaslighting” mean need look no further than U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Sadly, what McConnell did, rather than said, may come back to bite Americans in the backside.
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 arguments have been put forth in decades.
Idaho’s U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch are at a crossroads of conscience.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—AOC for short—is an outspoken Democrat from New York City.
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.
Put on your crash helmets, here come the COVID-19 coronavirus mutations.
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.
A north Idaho State Representative declared this week that the COVID-19 pandemic is over. Of the 1,681 Idahoans who had died at that time, she said, “That is nowhere close to a pandemic.” The death toll has since risen to 1,714, according to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.
Margaret Brennan’s interview of former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx for the Sunday morning show “Face the Nation” was a master class in how government should function and why it often doesn’t. Americans should take the class lesson seriously.
Nothing has changed since the Idaho Fish and Game Commission decided in 2019 to eliminate Blaine County from areas where wolf trapping is allowed on public or private lands. Local opposition was strong. The commission listened.
The answer to the question of what divides Americans today may be this: new appliances, granite countertops, expensive furniture and home decorators.
To turn the page to a more peaceful future, Americans must make solid efforts to tone down rhetoric and seek bipartisan following the inauguration of President Joe Biden. Those changes won’t stick unless the nation confronts the origins of the chaos that led up to today’s transfer of power.
A verse of the state’s official song reads, “And here we have Idaho / Winning her way to fame.”
Weeds of criminal conspiracy, anarchy and despotism cannot grow in inhospitable ground. Like all weeds, they seek out fertile soil to find the nutrients they need.
All of us will have to resist marching toward tyranny if America’s political culture is ever to return to its democratic norm.
District 26 Rep. Muffy Davis, D-Ketchum, should not have been forced to go to court to be able to do her job safely and represent the district.
The President of the United States has been insisting that America follow him into the Twilight Zone. Wednesday, that’s where we found ourselves. Americans have to resist staying there.
The mob attack on Congress on Wednesday left only questions in its wake, questions that need to be answered quickly in order to resecure the Capitol. Those questions all start with the letter W: Why, Who and Where.
The stolen-election crazy train has been driven by some Republicans in Congress. Remember their names because they should be held accountable for the damage they have done to our republic.
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