Students in America’s public schools should not go hungry or be stigmatized in cafeterias because their families can’t afford to feed them. Bu… Read moreSchools shouldn’t have to beg for food

America has a labor shortage. Baby Boomers have a shortage of cash for retirement. Study after study has concluded that most Boomers haven’t s… Read moreRevamp work expiration dates

An expanding hole in the ozone layer over the south pole signaled to scientists in the early 1980s that human activity had the capacity to des… Read moreSmall can make a big impact

Cheers to Idaho Gov. Brad Little for refusing to endorse schemes that would put public tax money into private schools, some connected with dif… Read moreCheers and Jeers

The old saw that nothing is certain except death and taxes should be rewritten now that the U.S. House of Representatives voted to rescind $80… Read moreArmies of tax bogeymen are fiction

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recently gave $100 million to support Dolly Parton’s charities. Hundreds of the world’s other richest people have si… Read moreTaxes fund good causes, too

The value of homes listed and sold locally is higher than ever before. Median family incomes have risen with the arrival of remote and retired… Read moreRicher but poorer than ever?

When earlier crises have occurred in the Wood River Valley, be they fire or flood, public agencies gave residents daily and weekly status briefings. Read moreWho is exploiting local workers?

As 2022 comes to a close, the United States, like the rest of the world, is slouching toward its new normal. That process, with the consequenc… Read moreEconomic recovery demands better than clichés

Idaho doesn’t need culture wars, but Rep. Jason Monks, R-Meridian, launched this year’s first volley before the Legislature has even convened. Read moreIdaho legislators should work on the tough stuff

One of the last advertising-free zones in life could now become a place for brand advertising. Read moreWill Idaho ballots come with ads from now on?

Warning signs have already popped up about what Idaho Attorney General-elect Raul Labrador may do with the office.

Tents under urban overpasses, on sidewalks and vacant lots have become as much a part of urban landscapes as concrete and steel. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Sun Valley is having one of the best starts for winter it has seen in decades with pre-Thanksgiving snows hugging Bald Mountain like icing hugs a cake—with manmade sprinkles on top.

Thanksgiving 2022 offers a better than average opportunity to be grateful. To be truly thankful requires acknowledging that one is not fully in control of what is received. Humility is something Americans are not especially good at, but this holiday reminds us that we should be.

Democracy won last week, or at least the officials who will make democracy possible. National coverage wasn’t always focused on the crazies running for things like secretary of state and attorney general. Fortunately, voters were.

Dealing with change is a popular local topic. In the past two years, wherever people gather the subject will inevitably come up.

Anyone who doesn’t have a headache on this day after the midterm election hasn’t been paying attention. The pain is self-inflicted.

America First” supporters might believe they will no longer have to worry about the rest of the world if Republicans prevail in next week’s election. That sentiment is likely to be exploded by the realities of a globe that is irreversibly interconnected.

Election endorsements are a tradition at the Idaho Mountain Express. We do what we hope every other voter does: read news accounts of campaigns, examine candidate websites and see candidates in action in local and televised debates.

As the mid-term election draws near, the conclusion of columnists and talking heads around the country seems to be that inflation and the economy are the top issues that voters are thinking about. They say so because polls say so. Consequently, candidates and commentators are treating them l…

Blaine County is about to receive $2.1 million from a program set up by the America Rescue Plan Act of 2021. The county should use all of the money to develop housing for local workers.

When the American democracy was founded, elections replaced violence as a means of gaining power, at least within the new nation. All agreed that in this new political system, the authority to govern, to make and enforce the rules, would be freely accepted and freely relinquished according t…

When Hurricane Ian drowned the small islands of Sanibel, Captiva and Pine islands in Florida, it became the wind-and-rain version of The Big One. Unless policymakers engage in hard conversations about the real costs that climate change is going to extract, Ian won’t keep that title for long.

To the uninitiated, it’s a mystery why several thousand people gather every October to watch a few thousand sheep push and shove and stroll down Ketchum’s Main Street.

In Iran, which the United States labels as a terrorist state, people have taken to the streets to demand freedom from dictatorial repression. Women around the world are speaking out in solidarity. Americans should express support, too.

The growing numbers of climate-driven disasters are pay-now or pay-later propositions.

In the mid-1970s, then-Mayor Jerry Seiffert proposed a radical idea: Ketchum should have a bus system and fares should be zero. That model for mass transit should be replicated across the country.