Scientific research shows that wearing face masks cuts transmission of the COVID coronavirus by 50 to 60 percent. It follows that reducing its spread increases the ability of medical facilities to treat those who become seriously ill with the virus.
Russian President Vladimir Putin figured out early on that in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, “no one has authority to do anything.” This isn’t what the Constitution anticipated nor what has to be. Congress, especially the Senate, should step up to stop the chaos.
Just when it seems that the bungling in the nation’s fight against COVID-19 coronavirus can’t get any worse, it gets worse.
Leadership is the ability to motivate people to do what they need to do to live in a civil society. The Hailey City Council just led Idaho by unanimously approving an emergency facemask law to try to stop the steeply rising curve of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Not wearing a facemask now could …
Idaho will carry the everlasting shame of the state’s refusal to ban discrimination against all citizens including those who are lesbian, gay and transgender. But thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court, that shame now will be history.
The 5.3 million residents of Washington, D.C., are American citizens. They vote in what amounts to a fake presidential election because their choice has no effect in the Electoral College. They are without representation in Congress. This year’s holiday marking the founding of the world’s pr…
The best thing Ketchum and Sun Valley elected officials could do for the local tourism-based economy is to spend public money to set up mask stations for visitors and launch a marketing campaign to urge them to wear masks.
Ketchum Mayor Neil Bradshaw and the City Council need to address the results of the city’s experiment in allowing construction of small residential units with no on-site parking.
We don’t need denial. We need to use the tools we have, and a little common sense, to control the spread of COVID-19. We can create a sustainable new normal in reaction to a spring trapped in the house.
Until the world has a vaccine against COVID-19 and until the people of the world are vaccinated, every newspaper editorial, every opinion column and every news broadcast should start with the words “Wear a mask in public places and practice social distancing.”
Georgia held an election last week and it went exactly the way Gov. Brian Kemp wanted it to. If the same thing happens in November, yet another election might unfairly tilt the results.
At its best, architecture encapsulates the soul of a place. It mirrors the past in new ways or it looks ahead to a new future. It inspires people and engages them visually, all while being easily useable.
Abystander that pushes a person off the railroad tracks and saves that person from being killed by a speeding locomotive normally would earn the thanks and eternal gratitude of the almost-victim.
Police will be safer and better if their communities trust them. Trust doesn’t come from the barrel of a gun, no matter what the old Western movies seem to say.
Without a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine, the only way the Sun Valley area economy can even remotely expect to get open and stay open is with tons of testing for residents, workers—and even visitors. Yet, that testing is nowhere in sight.
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo and Sen. Jim Risch swam against the Republican current last week when they called on President Trump to oppose a move to restrict temporary visas for workers coming to the U.S. The move was logical, but not laudable.
"A riot,” said Dr. Martin Luther King, “is the language of the unheard.” The riots in cities across the United States are frustrated black screams. White people must listen.
People in Blaine County had a front-row seat on the coronavirus pandemic. That’s the difference between people here and elsewhere.
Blaine County residents have a reason to smile after crushing the infection curve of the coronavirus COVID-19. However, the hardest parts of surviving are ahead with the virus hanging darkly over the future.
The universality of the coronavirus is showing why we should find better ways to think about how divides like race, geography and economics really affect all of us, and how we might think differently.
The federal disaster relief received by businesses to date will not come close to keeping the nation’s economy from going splat. Unless Americans are willing to face social and economic wreckage on a scale never seen before, more is needed.
Memorial Day is next Monday. It will be strange with no local ceremonies to honor military veterans who served in America’s conflicts. All were canceled because of the coronavirus, which can spread in large groups.
“Don’t get mad. Get even.” The saying attributed to the father of one U.S. president has become the mantra of another. It is no way to serve the American people.
Now that 25 of 28 public comments oppose a new 195-foot cell tower near Redfish Lake, will the Idaho Land Board pull the plug on it? It’s doubtful unless the opposition grows stronger.
A U.S. president, a vice president and an administration of men and women willing to act as toadies to one man’s ego have proved themselves more than incompetent in this pandemic. They are personally dangerous. That is neither a political statement nor fake news.
Memorial Day is next Monday. It will be strange with no local ceremonies to honor military veterans who served in America’s conflicts. All were canceled because of the coronavirus, which can spread in large groups.
“Don’t get mad. Get even.” The saying attributed to the father of one U.S. president has become the mantra of another. It is no way to serve the American people.
Now that 25 of 28 public comments oppose a new 195-foot cell tower near Redfish Lake, will the Idaho Land Board pull the plug on it? It’s doubtful unless the opposition grows stronger.
A U.S. president, a vice president and an administration of men and women willing to act as toadies to one man’s ego have proved themselves more than incompetent in this pandemic. They are personally dangerous. That is neither a political statement nor fake news.
Gov. Brad Little’s staged reopening plan for Idaho bets lives on the idea that one size fits all, which is never the case.
The U.S. Postal Service has been a part of American life since there first was an America. If the Trump administration has its way, the Postal Service won’t survive the pandemic.
Businesses and individuals are confused. They want to know what they should do as Idaho and local governments loosen restrictions intended to control the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Those governments could clear up the confusion by publishing health orders and guidelines in newspaper…
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed a gaping chasm between local students with access to computers and the internet, and those without.
Transactions seem like a simple and straightforward way get things done. It only works, however, if both sides are willing to deal. Before he hits “tweet” on his phone, President Donald Trump should remember that viruses don’t work that way.
Simply asking people to cover their mouths and noses to stop the spread of coronavirus isn’t working. It’s time to make the use of masks or face coverings mandatory for all.
More testing for the COVID-19 coronavirus are what public health experts say is needed before businesses can reopen, before people safely can go back to their jobs and before the economy can rebound.
COVID-19 is a curse and a gift. Humanity has no choice about accepting the first. Staying at home, as personally frightening and economically damaging as it is, shows us the rewards we can earn if we stop relying on burning fossil fuels.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic marched into the Wood River Valley, Express Publishing has been in a full court press providing all the information this community needs.
It’s impossible to talk about reopening America’s businesses without talking about the millions of tests for the COVID-19 coronavirus that the nation lacks.
The coronavirus COVID-19 has made the consequences of problems too long ignored increasingly obvious. It is also making seemingly outlandish proposals into obvious solutions.
The coronavirus COVID-19 has horrified and humbled every person on Earth, with few exceptions, since it struck with lightning speed. Now that it has demonstrated its sickening killing power, we must figure out how to blunt its blows and live with it until we can eliminate it.
Problems that are too big or too disbursed for a single jurisdiction to handle are, by definition, national in scope. Surely, the coronavirus pandemic qualifies. The federal government must step up.
The city of Sun Valley put second things first by allowing a COVID-19 health order that had prohibited work at construction and landscaping sites to expire Sunday with no public deliberation and no ordinance in place with requirements that would protect workers.
The more than 800 people who logged in to a virtual county town hall meeting Wednesday night saw glimmers of hope and heard cautionary tales about the COVID-19 pandemic that has unstrung life in our mountain towns. While a welcome tonic of solidarity, the meeting could not dispel the dangers…
If you haven’t noticed, Idahoans are on their own when it comes to tamping down the spread of the deadly coronavirus, COVID-19. The federal government isn’t going to ride in on a white charger to rescue distressed citizens.
Stuck at home and distracted by coronavirus on an endless loop, Americans can be excused for missing the Trump administration’s latest broadside against the climate. Even some polluters think this one is misguided.
There’s a saying in journalism, dusty but true: Report the news, don’t become the news. On Friday morning, when The New Yorker published an online article about Blaine County’s coronavirus outbreak, the Idaho Mountain Express became the news.
No one should think that it’s too late to stomp the climbing COVID-19 infection curve flat in Blaine County. The game is not over, even though the coronavirus is on a hot streak.
The new coronavirus hit the pause button on the economy and left businesses and workers in the lurch.
Today, the Idaho Mountain Express and Guide’s staff hit its 17th day in a row of pushing out news and information about the invasion of the COVID-19 virus. Staffers rose to the threat by doing the job of getting the facts out.
Blaine County is Idaho’s canary in the coal mine. Yet, Gov. Brad Little is downplaying the threat of the COVID-19 coronavirus and is stuffing his ears against the sound of the lessons learned in recent weeks in our hard-hit county.
Americans love Westerns. Taciturn loners face down danger to save others, operating by their own moral code, alone. Time to put that myth away. Americans, isolated by the COVID-19 health crisis, should adopt a #WeNotMe attitude in the face of the economic fallout that will follow.
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