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Remember when "Save the Whales" was a reasonable and well shared desire? Remember when it eventually became short hand for gooey-minded bleeding-heart liberals? Or remember how concern about our diminishing woodlands and ancient trees was marginalized by calling out "tree huggers" as the foo…

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My wife and I are full-time residents of Sunpointe in Elkhorn. We both are opposed to the Jericho Townhouse Project and hope that the Sun Valley City Council will override the approval by P&Z. But, we are outraged that two of the five members of P&Z did not attend a meeting that was …

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As a native to the Wood River Valley and a nonprofit leader I am optimistic that our community can work together to increase workforce housing and provide a dignified living experience for many of our valley’s working professionals. Two years ago, my wife, kids and I opened a room in our hom…

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If approved, the proposed Jericho project in Elkhorn Center will certainly prove to be a disaster for all Elkhorn residents. This project will shoehorn 19 apartments into three large buildings, thus eliminating whatever little bit of Idaho remained in the center. Its implementation will be b…

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In the March 31 Mountain Express, Mike Shultz paraphrased author Wendolyn Spence Holland on the topic of the world’s best ski racers coming to Sun Valley. Holland noted that there has been a pause since 1977 for various reasons. One being that a major race reduces terrain available for recre…

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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."—Aristotle

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As concerns over the proposed Lava Ridge Wind project have come to the forefront recently, there has been increased scrutiny over the project’s potential impact on the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer. There are good reasons to keep the aquifer at the top of our minds: it is the sole drinking wat…

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As I read the paper last week, I couldn’t help but feel sad about the valley and its misrepresentation. While I do agree that it’s sad that Fish & Game had to kill the mountain lions living in Deerfield, the reason is incorrect. They were not here first.

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We’ve all been seeing it for some time now—not enough people to work in our restaurants, retail stores, and the service sectors. It is visible everywhere. Businesses have resorted to limited hours or long waiting times for service. How many of you have grumbled about this? In the Wood River …

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Voters in Ketchum, Sun Valley and Hailey will have the opportunity to decide if the 1% for Air local-option tax should be renewed and reallocated with the proceeds split between 0.5% for workforce housing and 0.5% for air service.

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The board and members of the Hemingway Trout Unlimited Chapter are deeply saddened by the passing of Blaine County Commissioner Dick Fosbury. Commissioner Fosbury was a strong proponent of protecting and enhancing the Big Wood River and its tributaries, as well preserving public access to th…

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Here's a quote from a March 20 U.N. climate report: “Now is the time for an era of co-investment in bold solutions. As the narrow window of opportunity to stop climate change rapidly closes, the choices that governments, the private sector, and communities now make—or do not make—will go dow…

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On Monday, March 20, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its latest assessment on climate change, drawing on the findings of hundreds of scientists throughout the world. The assessment details the devastating impacts of rising greenhouse gas emissions, including destr…

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As a long time former business owner, a Ketchum resident and chair of the Blaine County Housing Authority I would like to encourage everyone to vote "yes" in May for the LOT measures on the ballot in Hailey, Ketchum and Sun Valley.

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The four lower Snake River dams combined have a power-generation capacity of 3,030 average megawatts (aMW), but annually produce on average only about 925 aMW due largely to a lack of water. According to the Inslee-Murray Benefit Replacement Report, power generated by the dams must be replac…

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Idaho code states that “no person may allow a dog to take, chase, pursue, or kill any big game animal. Any dog found running at large and which is actively tracking, pursuing, harassing, attacking or killing deer or any other big game animal may be destroyed without criminal or civil liabili…

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Biodiversity is a term used to describe the enormous variety of life on earth. What we do in protecting or destroying any part of it in one place has long-reaching effects in another: the withering of our natural landscapes, destruction of fertile areas, disruption or loss of rivers, loss of…

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On Jan. 20, the city of Sun Valley sent an unsigned letter on traffic concerns to Fairway Road neighbors. The unsigned letter was filled with misleading statements. It was insensitive and had a divisive tone, intended to pit neighbor against neighbor. While many residents questioned who sent…

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On the 12th of January, 2023, my daughter Ming died in Maui. All her life she had avoided doctors and medical matters, so that by the time a biopsy revealed the cancer it was very advanced. As we expected, she refused the radiation and chemotherapy and surgery she was automatically offered, …

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We, the students of Sun Valley Community School’s Holocaust class, have spent the winter term learning about and engaging with the history surrounding the Holocaust, hoping to help others correctly remember the event and apply it to our lives and our day. We want people to fully understand t…

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After joining all of his Republican colleagues to kick Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) from the U.S. House Foreign Relations Committee, our representative, Mike Simpson, was overheard by a reporter agreeing with his colleague, Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colorado) that this was the "stupidest vote in the…

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Wilderness is a part of the earth that isn’t influenced by man’s actions; it would flourish if it wasn’t for the disruption of human beings. The purpose of the  Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, or NREPA, is to protect the Boulder-White Clouds Wilderness area by creating biological …