The current Chicago Public Schools mess is a perfect microcosm of this country’s increasingly boneheaded handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Read more

The Idaho Supreme Court should ensure one person, one vote Read more

Idaho has lost a force of nature with the passing of Steve Hartgen Read more

COVID-19 is surging again. But omicron leaves us with a tiny bit of hope Read more

Hello, beloved humans, and welcome to the seventh-annual edition of Rex Huppke's Guaranteed-Accurate-Never-Wrong-Grade-A-New Year's Prediction… Read more

Joe Manchin’s decision on Sunday to oppose the Build Back Better Act is a service to the country, sparing it from huge tax increases and new e… Read more

If you know someone is a Republican or Democrat, then you might assume you know exactly where they stand on whether local jails need to be expanded. Read more

Is Santa real? Yes. Read more

Everyone deserves access to safe and affordable housing, and rapidly increasing rents and home prices are making it more difficult for Idahoan… Read more

Idaho is consistently in the top five states for our very low unemployment rate. For four straight months, Idaho’s labor force has grown, and … Read more

While there are many potential solutions to Ketchum’s housing crisis, the signatories of this letter would like to call attention to a major c… Read more

Bring salmon back to the River of No Return Read more

For those who celebrate Christmas, this is peak tree-decorating time, a joyous part of the season when families wrap a technically dead and hi… Read more

Is the American Dream fading in the West? Read more

Through some well-placed sources in the virus community, I was given a missive penned by the newly discovered omicron coronavirus variant. App… Read more

In the midst of a pandemic that has claimed three-quarters of a million lives in this country alone, there is human suffering that can get los… Read more

In response to the Editorial published in the Nov. 10 edition of the Mountain Express (”Housing won the election”), it is incumbent upon the Blaine County Housing Authority to respond to some of the issued raised and reiterate the work of BCHA. The Blaine County Housing Authority is a quasi-…

During closing arguments in Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial Monday, the Kenosha County prosecutor said this: "I think we can all agree we shouldn't have 17-year-olds running around the street with AR-15s, because this is what happens."

As the Idaho Education Association celebrates American Education Week, Nov. 15-19, 2021, we encourage Idahoans to reflect on the many benefits public education provides, along with what needs to be done to ensure that our state has strong and vibrant public schools for generations to come. T…

By REX HUPPKE

BLACKFOOT—The photo of her great grandpa, a Korean War veteran, sparked our 6-year-old’s curiosity in a way we didn’t expect.

After nearly three hours of oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, it appears the majority of Supreme Court justices are poised to overrule Texas' draconian abortion law.

The Senate is now deciding the fate of local news.

Comparing the Idaho legislative session this year with those I have observed over the last half century, this was decidedly the worst. Legislators variously proposed or passed unconstitutional bills, tried to make the initiative and referendum unworkable, refused to take the COVID-19 crisis …

The challenge in polarized political times is to keep your eye on democratic institutions and their proper authority. That’s the reason to applaud the nine House Republicans who voted last week to hold Steve Bannon, the sometime Donald Trump counselor, in contempt for defying a Congressional…

The judge in Kyle Rittenhouse’s upcoming murder trial has laid out some early ground rules for attorneys, and they make perfect sense, as long as you’re a member of one of the militias or neo-fascist groups that support the 18-year-old defendant.

It hurts my heart to watch families and individuals with long histories in our valley, who have a sense of place and have contributed to the fabric of our communities, leave for financial or social reasons. They have sweated, built relationships, and defended this amazing land and its specia…

Affordable housing is the number one problem in the Wood River Valley, but some things we can’t change. It’s a highly desirable place to live surrounded by land we can’t develop, and building luxury condos will always be more profitable than local workforce housing.

The need for housing that is affordable for local residents has a long history in the Wood River Valley. The pandemic and subsequent demographic changes have added jet fuel to the issue, and to the housing insecurity felt by many residents in the community.

I recently spent a week with my antifa platoon, passing out copies of U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s new book—“Nefariously Converting America to Full Marxist Communism Through Vaccine Mandates, Critical Race Theory and Cancel Culture: A Beginner’s Guide”—to thousands of people in a Sou…

Facebook has become the latest company that everyone loves to hate, and internal documents stolen by an employee have become an opening to blame the social-media giant for America’s ills. The company has made mistakes, but it’s worth sorting the genuine issues from the opportunism of politic…

A Facebook whistleblower has confirmed what many have long suspected: The social media giant is profiting off anger and division.

A lot has changed since the spring of 2020. The arrival of COVID-19 upended almost every aspect of our lives and forced us all to adapt to a new world. We are two paid on-call firefighters/EMTs at Wood River Fire & Rescue, and our department has a plan to continue adapting and evolving. …

I’ve been asked that question often since leaving the Capitol in May.

President Biden’s first speech as Commander in Chief to the U.N. General Assembly on last week was full of the high-minded internationalist sentiment that defines his rhetoric. If only those words reflected the reality of the world he and America will have to navigate over the next four years.

Now listen, I’m just a mild-mannered Midwestern newspaper columnist, but after watching what happened in the California gubernatorial recall election, my manners are feeling less than mild.

Since my family moved to Hailey in 2012, the value of homes in our neighborhood has quadrupled. The change was shocking to me, but it is all too familiar to many people who live here year-round. This past summer, I got to return to my hometown after my first year of medical school to complet…

What is it that attracts people to Ketchum and Sun Valley, or to the rest of the Wood River Valley? Is it towering hotels and buildings of empty condominiums that see a week of activity in summer and another in winter? Is it gleaming Teslas and Range Rovers crowding city parking? Is it milli…

Veronica Wolski was a believer in the deeply unhinged QAnon conspiracy theory. When it came to COVID-19, she was anti-vaccine and anti-mask, at one point standing on a pedestrian bridge over Chicago’s Kennedy Expressway with a sign that read “Ax the vax.” She became a darling in the dark fri…

This anniversary of the horrific attacks on our homeland on Sept. 11, 2001, is especially solemn. Twenty years later, it is still hard to comprehend these acts of pure evil. Vicki and I continue to mourn the lives lost as a result of those attacks. We owe our deepest thanks to our men and wo…

We could not believe our eyes when we read a recent op-ed from Idaho House GOP leadership scapegoating local government for the property tax crisis created by GOP legislators themselves (“Right now, local government can cut your property taxes,” published Sept. 1). We must set the record str…