The article “Baldy gets a trim to improve forest health” (published July 23) perpetuates the Forest Service’s misleading and scientifically in… Read more

More than 250 bills seeking to limit the rights of LGBT people have been brought up or passed in state legislatures across the country this year. Read more

Whenever I visit a small business around Idaho, I ask them, “What is the greatest challenge you face?” Read more

These recent headlines tell the story of a crime: Read more

This year’s winner of the John Forbes Kerry Award for Achievement in Political Acrobatics goes to ... Read more

In late August 1776, the British redcoats routed George Washington’s Continental Army in the Battle of Brooklyn, capturing, wounding and killi… Read more

We need to talk about rich people traveling into space. Read more

“It’s like having gasoline out there,” said Brian Steinhardt, forest fire zone manager for Prescott and Coconino national forests in Arizona, … Read more

Idaho spends less on each of its public school students than any other state in the nation. Read more

The heaving hysteria over critical race theory, showing up now in state legislatures and school board meetings across the country, can be dist… Read more

Successful Idaho remedies for America’s rural healthcare divide include Stanley’s clinic and ambulance. Read more

After years of enduring—and fighting—federal rollbacks on America’s bedrock conservation laws and protections of public lands and waters, we a… Read more

Despite considerable pushback, I stand by my controversial opinion that dying is bad. It’s a hill I’m willing to live on. Read more

This is a story about a good dog. A lake dog, to be specific. Read more

The Idaho Republican Party has standards. Read more

Thanks goes to Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, who is giving Idahoans a sneak peek at what she’d look like as the state’s governor. Read more

I have a secret to reveal: I’m part of a vast left-wing conspiracy hellbent on turning patriotic Americans into Marxist drones by giving them … Read more

COVID-19 is the super virus that world health officials warned us would someday come, and just over a year later, it was everywhere, including Idaho. Read more

The Forest Service continuously justifies logging our forests based on what it calls “forest health.” The agency claims logging will “restore”… Read more

As President Joe Biden continues his push to get 70% of American adults vaccinated against the coronavirus by July 4, he’s getting help from c… Read more

On May 28, they Ketchum mayor and City Council hosted a community meeting on the housing crisis. While this was an important step, the meeting was attended primarily by people who have been displaced by rising rents and the removal of long-term rental units from our housing pool.  There was …

hould do something about all its shootings.

We all had a sense it was coming, but recent articles confirmed it. The growth pressures since COVID-19, the drought and the community housing crisis have the looming potential to change our valley forever. Now is the time to make hard, but crucial, decisions to retain a sustainable, vibrant…

On May 6, Gov. Brad Little signed a gray wolf extermination bill into law that allows hunters, trappers—and even paid private contractors—to slaughter up to 90% of the wolves in Idaho.

Once again under the “COVID umbrella,” the city of Ketchum is pressing forward with its agenda. On Tuesday, May 11, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted to advance the application of the Bluebird housing project” on to formal design review. That was done while many issues regarding the d…

If you’ve ever wondered what you can do to help your country, ever wanted to be part of something bigger than yourself, now is your chance: Speak up and speak out, loudly and often, about the lie that the 2020 presidential election was rigged or stolen or somehow sullied by massive voter fraud.

Monday, during the Bellevue City Council’s public comment period, I expressed my concerns about the future of the Bellevue Marshal’s Office regarding Deputy Marshal Nate Silvester, the employee who posted a TikTok video on Black Lives Matter and law enforcement. After I spoke, the council he…

As a liberal in good standing, I will never forgive the GOP for forcing me to admire something about Republican Rep. Liz Cheney.

Ask anyone on the street, “What is the biggest problem facing Blaine County?” Locals will say a lack of affordable housing. At the Blaine County Housing Authority, we currently have over 250 local households on our waiting list with few housing options to offer. Like many other communities, …

Compassion isn’t the first word on the tip of anyone’s tongue when discussing U.S. immigration policy. But in tapping Harris County (Texas) Sheriff Ed Gonzalez to head U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, President Biden has wisely selected a veteran lawman who knows when to be tough an…

President Joe Biden has no plan whatsoever to reduce Americans’ consumption of red meat. But I have it on good authority that Republicans, including thought leaders such as Donald Trump Jr. and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, want Americans to start consuming large amounts of human flesh.

In a painful example of why states can’t be trusted to manage gray wolves, the Idaho Legislature seems to be fast-tracking Senate Bill S.1211, which aims to slash Idaho’s wolf population by as much as 90 percent. The bill would inappropriately transfer the traditional roles and responsibilit…

I would love a COVID-19 vaccine passport. After more than a year in full or partial quarantine, I’m so happy to be vaccinated I want to get the words “FULLY” and “VAXXED” tattooed on my butt and run naked through the streets. (Don’t worry, I won’t. America has suffered enough.)

Thanks to clever, easily digestible rhetoric from the morally and financially bankrupt National Rifle Association, Americans have engaged in years of bickering over whether guns kill people.

At the monthly meeting of the Wood River Fire & Rescue commissioners on March 17, four representatives of Croy Canyon and western Hailey presented their concerns regarding the proposed campground in Croy Canyon. They represented over 90 other property owners in this canyon. They discusse…

As President Joe Biden unveiled a sweeping $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, Republican lawmakers detailed their party’s own carefully thought-out counterplan, which consists of one word: No.

All hills these White Clouds, Boulders, Bigwoods, Sawtooths, all sunny-snowy, with a tug of war between all tourists, townies, and all trout. An outdoor-obsessed Ketchum, a humble Hailey, an ahead of its time Sun Valley club—delighting all since the 1930s. “Rodge” at the Lodge telling of gol…

Idaho has an opportunity to improve our children’s ability to read and write, support working mothers and create an early-childhood education system we in Idaho are sorely missing. This year, Idaho received a $6 million grant from the Trump administration to improve our early-childhood educa…

Our community suffered a heartbreaking loss when Ashley Midby was murdered by Jared Murphy. Let’s stop calling this a murder/suicide and call it was it is, a domestic violence homicide. They dated and lived together. Jared claimed to love Ashley. It is important to name this violence because…

Nuestra comunidad sufrió una perdida lamentable cuando Ashley Midby fue asesinada por Jared Murphy. Dejemos de llamar a este caso un asesinato/suicidio y llamemosle por lo que en realidad es, un asesinato por violencia domestica. Ellos vivian juntos. Jared dijo que amaba a Ashley. Es importa…

For 31 years, my grandfather Arthur Davis worked around Boise on a road crew fixing roads. He knew the city well. An observation he shared with me, which I’ve thought a lot about since, was that there once were two area companies making bricks: one made good bricks, the other made cheap bric…

Exhaustion and exhilaration—anyone who has skinned or hiked up Baldy in the winter knows those feelings well.

The 21-year-old white man who went on a shooting spree at several Georgia spas, killing eight people, including six Asian women, was having a bad day, you see.

The Idaho Attorney General is a constitutional officer who is hired or fired by the people of Idaho every four years in an election based on his or her ability to uphold the Idaho Constitution and the rule of law.