With no “crop insurance,” snow farming is a risky and precarious business. It depends entirely on the weather and nature’s ability to deliver … Read more
The United States federal budget totals more than $6 trillion a year. It is high time more of that money benefits women and children, families… Read more
It’s election time in Idaho towns. Read more
Idaho’s Republican Party has backed itself into a corner. One well-known party moderate now wants Democrats to save it from itself. Read more
What can overcome the hand-to-hand combat typical of Washington these days? Or, the danger to children and to a civil society that is Facebook… Read more
Janice McGeachin isn’t exactly a household name in the state, but the Lt. Governor’s cheap stunt this week showed that she is desperate to rai… Read more
Two City Council seats are up for grabs in both Ketchum and Hailey. A four-way race for mayor of Ketchum is heating up. Read more
The epidemic of the unvaccinated is exhausting health workers, slowing economic recovery and killing people. Mandates can end it. Read more
The standoff over whether Congress will raise the nation’s debt ceiling is a stupid and dangerous game. Read more
Idaho taxpayers recently got income tax refunds in the mail. Yet, Idaho schools are still the most poorly funded in the nation. Read more
The Big Lie isn’t working out so well for former President Donald Trump. That isn’t stopping those who expect to benefit from sowing doubt abo… Read more
After decades of putting aside the issue of middle-income and workforce housing, elected officials in every town in the Wood River Valley are … Read more
Ideological hard-lines, social media run amok and a deadly worldwide virus epidemic have left tempers short and the restraining effects of goo… Read more
Blaine County and its cities have long made noises about reducing the carbon footprints of public buildings and public transportation in order… Read more
Last week, President Joe Biden announced federal mandates that will require millions of workers to either get a COVID-19 vaccination or provid… Read more
Idahoans are needlessly dying. Hospitals are overwhelmed. Medical professionals are being forced to decide which critically ill patients hospi… Read more
The city of Ketchum’s willingness to entertain the idea of increasing the local-option sales tax and using the money to develop workforce hous… Read more
Big helpings of science haven’t convinced enough Americans to get vaccinated to beat back the scourge of COVID-19 coronavirus. Read more
Recalls are usually assumed to be pure democracy. Instead, next Tuesday’s California gubernatorial recall election will be a demonstration of … Read more
In the last hurrah of summer as we bask under a warm sun and cooler breezes, it’s tempting to put aside thoughts of a pandemic that is still with us. Read more
Whether it is OK for anyone to be a billionaire is debatable. Whether it is OK for the top 1% of Americans to be worth 16 times more than the … Read more
Ketchum’s Wagon Days celebration is a glimpse into what life was like in the late 19th century in a small mining town in the mountains of Idah… Read more
The Idaho Supreme Court just saved democracy in Idaho from its misguided Legislature and governor. Read more
Science is the rationale used by those willing to wear a mask, to stay physically distanced from others, to accept public health restrictions,… Read more
Idaho must read the smoke signals. Their message is clear. Idaho has to up its game and prepare to fight bigger and hotter wildfires that could flare up in many places at once.
One thing stands between school-age kids and the quick closure of public schools that could become swamps of the COVID-19 coronavirus: masks that reduce transmission of the airborne virus.
Record heat killed people in the Pacific Northwest. Another town burned to the ground in Western wildfires.
The Sun Valley Music Festival last Saturday night did what too few local events manage to do outside of public schools. It brought together an enthusiastic audience that included Hispanics and whites in a joyous celebration of music.
The nearly $1 trillion infrastructure bill moving through Congress might dent the partisan political divide that has prevented meaningful legislation in Washington.
Scientists have been unable to spur the nation into accelerating actions necessary to stop the devastation from climate change. Insurance companies may have better luck.
Despite a two-decade investment of blood and treasure by the United States, the Afghanistan government seems unprepared to prevent the Taliban from wreaking havoc.
With lawmakers including Idaho Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch in support of a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, the nation could soon see the Senate’s political gridlock ease and work get underway on crumbling roads and bridges, distressed water systems and rickety transportation systems.
Coming to Idaho again are the worn-out arguments over wearing facemasks to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
It is surely frustrating for the people of Japan to be unable to attend the Summer Olympics, but the first weekend of events showed that the games are just what the world needs right now.
On its website, the United States Postal Service touts first-class mail delivery in “three business days or less.” That gold standard for fast, reliable, written communication that ties the parts of this huge continent together is about to be tarnished.
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 vaccinated.
Mountain vacation destinations like Sun Valley and the Sawtooth Mountains are unusually crowded this summer.
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 Precision should have recognized its Block19 firearm as a bad idea before it shared the design with the world on Twitter.
If you are an Idaho taxpayer, the overwhelmingly Republican Legislature is putting your money where its mouth is.
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 executive order that could eliminate that dubious distinction.
The Sawtooth National Recreation Area is the heart of Idaho, with its delicate peaks, crashing creeks and lakes.
America’s immigration system is broken. Propaganda makes the damage worse.
Procrastination is a human habit that normally is just an annoyance. Yet, it can turn lethal.
The freedoms that the nation will celebrate on this Independence Day weekend are powerful. They are most powerful when Americans use them together.
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.
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 since 2003 seem like a ray of hope. It may prove to be little more than a windfall for its maker, a financial blow to Medicare and a black eye for the FDA.
Rentals, rentals everywhere and not a place to live. This takeoff on the words of 19th-century poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge perfectly describes the Sun Valley area today.
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. That doesn’t make Juneteenth any less important as a celebration of freedom.
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