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 … Read more

The need for housing that is affordable for local residents has a long history in the Wood River Valley. The pandemic and subsequent demograph… Read more

I recently spent a week with my antifa platoon, passing out copies of U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s new book—“Nefariously Converting Am… Read more

Facebook has become the latest company that everyone loves to hate, and internal documents stolen by an employee have become an opening to bla… Read more

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

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 n… Read more

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

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 se… Read more

Now listen, I’m just a mild-mannered Midwestern newspaper columnist, but after watching what happened in the California gubernatorial recall e… Read more

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 t… Read more

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 emp… Read more

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, a… Read more

This anniversary of the horrific attacks on our homeland on Sept. 11, 2001, is especially solemn. Twenty years later, it is still hard to comp… Read more

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 c… Read more

The actions of the Biden Administration announced on Thursday are completely unacceptable. Their decision to impose a government mandated medi… Read more

There are moments that define a generation. Read more

Fire in the West is expected, and not so long ago, it seemed something the West experienced more than anywhere else. Nationally, big fires wer… Read more

There are so many egregious layers to Texas’ ban on abortions, it is hard to know where to begin. Read more

As we approached President Joe Biden’s deadline for withdrawing U.S. military forces from a two-decade war in Afghanistan, Americans learned t… Read more

The valiant struggle of today’s healthcare workers against the coronavirus hearkens back to one of the toughest enemies George Washington face… Read more

As cities and counties begin to set budgets for the upcoming year, it is important to understand the recent changes implemented by the Idaho L… Read more

As a very important voice in the American pundit-sphere, I would like to apologize for not offering a near-instantaneous opinion on President … Read more

As a result of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), Ketchum will receive approximately $610,000 in one-time funds to be used in our community … Read more

As we enter a new school year with the pandemic still creating uncertainty, I remain optimistic because I know that our school leaders share my commitment to providing the best conditions for learning possible in their districts and charter schools. Our educators are working hard to make sur…

Hikers are flooding our public lands, so I ask the question: Why can’t people just leave the poor rocks alone?

As we look forward to a new school year, we must work together to keep Idaho schools open for in-person learning.

Poor Butte County, California, again on fire, its smoke choking the air of states miles away.

As COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths rise again across the country, there rests, on the tips of many vaccinated Americans’ tongues, an exasperated rant waiting to be set free.

More than 75 million acres across America have burned in the last decade. The California cities of Paradise and Concow were both destroyed in 2018, and tragically, 349 wildfire-related fatalities have occurred in the past 20 years.

Thanks to a resurgence of COVID-19 in the community, the 2021-22 public school year might not look as normal as everyone wishes it would.

After minutes of careful sociological research, I’ve discovered the reason many Americans still refuse to get the free, safe and wildly effective COVID-19 vaccine: It can’t be eaten.

The article “Baldy gets a trim to improve forest health” (published July 23) perpetuates the Forest Service’s misleading and scientifically inaccurate “Forest Health” claims. Thinning out large trees and re-planting different species may open up skiable terrain but it will not make the fores…

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.

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

These recent headlines tell the story of a crime:

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

In late August 1776, the British redcoats routed George Washington’s Continental Army in the Battle of Brooklyn, capturing, wounding and killing more than 2,000 American troops. Washington and his remaining soldiers were surrounded by the Brits with the East River to their backs.

We need to talk about rich people traveling into space.

“It’s like having gasoline out there,” said Brian Steinhardt, forest fire zone manager for Prescott and Coconino national forests in Arizona, in a recent AP story about the increasingly fire-prone West.

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

The heaving hysteria over critical race theory, showing up now in state legislatures and school board meetings across the country, can be disturbing to witness, particularly when you know it’s a bunch of ginned-up nonsense aimed at scaring white people into voting for Republicans.

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

After years of enduring—and fighting—federal rollbacks on America’s bedrock conservation laws and protections of public lands and waters, we are on the cusp of a much-needed and inspiring change of course.

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

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

The Idaho Republican Party has standards.