The City Council of Sun Valley responded to their residents when they closed the Fairway Road terminus to parking for the Proctor Loop. As som… Read more

Even after endless weeks of living inside the “heat dome” and watching Blaine County’s “extreme drought” turn into “extraordinary drought,” th… Read more

Alastair Neale conducted the best Eroica I have heard, and I have heard it in New York City as a college girl at Sarah Lawrence studying music… Read more

The past weeks have brought compounding evidence of the extreme efforts that the Trump Administration were willing to undertake to overthrow a… Read more

Every time I drive up or down the Valley these days, I find myself upset at the emerald-green open spaces in front of Golden Eagle, Weyyakin, … Read more

ng on Aug. 20. I was told this meeting was about getting input on whether the city should buy the lot behind City Hall. It sounded like that d… Read more

Idaho’s elected officials have a golden opportunity to finally address public school funding in a meaningful way. The record budget surplus sh… Read more

This valley has definitely changed. Read more

Sunday, May 23, could have been the worst day, but it became a day of second chances and overwhelming gratitude for the community of first res… Read more

Save money, help your local community and our environment by making one small change each week this month! You can “do the right thing” and ch… Read more

During a visit to Sun Valley/Ketchum in May, I read in local publications a concern that the community spirit that has long characterized the … Read more

A recent Jackson Hole News & Guide article was written while the reporter was stuck in traffic there. The next article was about a crime w… Read more

The leaders of Ketchum, especially Mayor Bradshaw, continue to act as though housing has only reached crisis levels because of COVID. However,… Read more

So, you saved little by little so as to have a little nest egg to help when one of those emergencies comes along. Then we have a government in… Read more

As we live in the high desert and water is at a premium, and being a long-time resident of Sun Valley, I have recently read about the “extreme… Read more

Now more than ever, people are visiting the Wood River Valley for its natural beauty, strong community, and generous lifestyle. For some, we a… Read more

As a former Idaho state legislator and a member for several sessions of the powerful House Revenue and Taxation Committee, I believe it is imp… Read more

Two items from this paper’s June 16 issue dovetail nicely. Read more

The Mountain Express editorial board was right (“Default to yes,” published June 16) that we need to default to “yes.” Read more

I originally sat down to write this letter with the intent of lambasting the rich, the greedy and the out-of-town people who appear to be resp… Read more

After reading Rex Huppke’s guest opinion in the June 18 Mountain Express, I remembered my own family’s dog story. Read more

For those who value representative government, take a look at Ketchum’s reconstituted Historical Preservation Commission (HPC) (https://www.ke… Read more

Idaho is a state with amazing ski trails, wilderness areas, miles and miles of beautiful hiking trails, scenic areas, and probably the greates… Read more

Consider this: Idaho’s Republican governor and Republican-led Legislature helped us get through the pandemic. Read more

The Senate filibuster is supported by right-wing Republicans, who are now represented by a party that is in total fealty to a narcissistic, ly… Read more

The city of Ketchum recently made national headlines for suggesting that a tent city in Rotary Park was an appropriate solution to our housing crisis. It is unconscionable that several residents are either getting kicked out or priced out of their homes and the solution from the city is go l…

The sad shooting of a dog last week in the Boulder Mountains was an unfortunate case of mistaken identity, that the camper with a gun thought it was a wolf. As someone who knows something about wolf behavior, wolves in Idaho stay away from campers and their dogs because they are aggressively…

Using the filibuster when the Senate is tied 50-50 hardly seems like thwarting majority rule. Moreover, the Democrats used the filibuster 314 times when Donald Trump was president.

I assume the editorial board understands: 

While we all desire affordable housing in Ketchum, the reality of market economics is that the price of land and building costs prohibit anything approaching affordable housing without massive public taxpayer subsidies. Look at your recent Blaine County tax assessment and the real estate mar…

American education must always reflect American ideals, which value individualism and embrace the diversity of all people. Our education system is responsible for ensuring the American pledge, which unites all citizens as one indivisible nation in its guardianship of liberty and justice for …

I am for community housing and I love Ketchum, and that’s why I oppose Bluebird. 

I couldn’t wait for the Melville Minute in Friday’s paper, so it’s a real bummer that Chris Melville is leaving so soon. I often raced to the library for a book he recommended or grabbed a film from Netflix. I’d like to have “Sticky Fingers” played at my funeral, but you couldn’t go wrong wi…

I have probably poured your beer, served your dinner, trimmed your trees, aerated your lawn, taught your kid to fish or, at the very least, held the door open for you at the post office. I am the Ketchum working class. For 12 years, I have sweat and bled to gain a foothold in this remarkable…

I found the “locals” opinion interesting. And the thoughts on being “local,” which was proper and relevant. I have lived south of Ketchum since the early ’70’s, but I have very fond memories of the dirt streets in Ketchum--no stop lights, Atkinsons’ on Sun Valley Road, Virgy at The Tub putti…

In response to the editorial on CRT (“Critical race theory is not to be feared,” May 19), juicing pre-K-12 school curriculum with social justice ideology comes at a high cost personally and societally. It displaces the time students can spend learning reading, writing and arithmetic.

Your editorial stating that critical race theory (“Critical race theory is not to be feared,” May 19) is about studying how race has affected human history demonstrates that you have had no exposure to CRT. One can only look around this country and see the resistance to CRT training as many …

Getting to the Wood River Valley and its amenities to enjoy a vacation has always been difficult, but now it has become almost impossible. The “getting here” isn’t the problem, it’s that once you’re here there are virtually no rental cars at Friedman. The rental car people at the airport tel…

Bluebird will put 50 more cars on the downtown Ketchum streets every day and night. Either provide two parking spaces per unit or deny the project. Don’t let the federal funds and developer profit ruin downtown Ketchum.

The future arrived like an unwelcome thunderclap in the summer of 2020. Thousands fled cities, seeking respite in the great outdoors. The Wood River Valley experienced endless traffic, skyrocketing rent and real estate, and dangerous pressure on the limited fishing resources of the Wood Rive…

The Victims’ Rights Amendment to the Idaho Constitution guarantees that victims be treated with respect, dignity, fairness and privacy throughout the legal process.

Brilliant! The Department of Fish and Game is thinning the elk that the Senate is trying to protect. Hasn’t anyone told them that’s what the wolves are for?

Rapidly evolving realities in our fair valley have made Friedman Memorial Airport an anachronism clearly demanding relocation of all airport operations to BLM lands south of Timmerman Hill in Blaine County.

I am baffled about the proposed Bluebird Village. We, the residents of Ketchum, had to vote to spend our tax dollars and allow bonds for the financing of a new fire station and new City Hall. I am likely not the only one who thought the city would sell the existing valuable City Hall propert…

I would like to propose an idea to Mr. Jack Bariteau and the Ketchum City Council.

Yes, we have a housing crisis in Ketchum. While it worsened suddenly it’s important to understand that the issue has a long history and origins we have not been good at discussing.

Many people are quick to equate affordable housing to the economic sectors of government—emergency services, local service, retail and tourism—and they’re not wrong. But there’s an additional financial sector equally at stake here—the professional sector.

There is a gem in Bellevue waiting to be visited by local residents and newcomers to the area. It is the Bellevue Historical Museum!

We are in dire need of affordable housing. One glance at classifieds says it all. We had 13 columns of Help Wanted ads and ZERO (yes, zero!) Rental ads in the Idaho Mountain Express last week.

I strongly object to Senate Bill 1211. In the absence of scientific evidence, how does one justify an almost complete annihilation of the current Idaho wolf population? This Bill goes above and beyond the norms of conservation and common-sense management.

Idahoans value a property owner’s constitutional right to their private property and the rights of people to live their lives the way they choose. A threat to one person’s private property rights is a threat to all of ours, which is why I’ve been following a topic being discussed in Custer C…

Accommodating housing needs for all Wood River Valley residents across the economic spectrum is necessary for it to remain an economically thriving, vibrant and growing mountain community.