Years ago, 34 to be exact, I wrote a book to support children in growing their feelings vocabulary, i.e., to strengthen their EQ, or emotional… Read moreWhere is the respect?
Thank you to the Express editorial board for the editorial "Government workers should not get to jump the housing line," published May 17. Wha… Read moreExpress editorial was right on housing priority
The Warm Springs Preserve holds bountiful medicine through co-creative partnership with nature. I want you to know deep nature connection, lea… Read morePrioritize the land's needs and we all benefit
Thank you to our EMS partners Read moreThank you to our EMS partners
Congress and the Biden administration should act to stop artificial intelligence in its tracks by stopping further development and deployment … Read moreStop artificial intelligence deployment now
Who do you trust? I’m not thinking of political leaders. I’m referring to people. Whether they go to church is as irrelevant as their politica… Read moreDon't put tribe above truth
On May 16 we can vote "yes" to change our "1% for Air" local-option tax. LOT is allowed in Idaho for resort cities. It is not a property tax b… Read moreVote 'yes' on May 16
Jericho’s 19 prefab stackable rental units with 3/4 bedrooms, at market rate, has still not received final approvals for development in the El… Read moreNo to Jericho!
For far too long, our community has kicked the proverbial can down the road on affordable housing. We’ve been waiting for some future people, … Read moreSmall actions move the needle on housing
As if predators in Idaho didn’t have enough problems just existing, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and trophy hunters want you to believe t… Read moreIdaho's wildlife deserves better from Fish and Game
As a 30-year resident of Lane Ranch, Sun Valley, I want to urge fellow residents to vote Yes on May 16 at Sun Valley City Hall on two ballot m… Read moreSun Valley voters: Say yes to housing LOT
On May 16, Ketchum voters will be asked whether the LOT should be split between workforce housing and airport subsidies. I will vote "no." Whi… Read moreWhy I'm voting 'no' on changes to the LOT
As you drive through Elkhorn, there are a variety of designs and finishes on homes, townhomes, and condos. But the feel of Elkhorn is Mountain… Read moreSay no to Jericho
Vote yes to approve LOT funding for housing and air service on May 16. Our local municipalities (Hailey, Ketchum and Sun Valley) have wisely t… Read moreHelp your neighbors, businesses and employers on May 16
This week, April 23-29, is National Library Week. Read moreAt libraries, there's more to the story
Your opinion piece of April 12, 2023, lamenting the recent losses of Barry Luboviski, Dick Fosbury, Jack Corrock and Mary Austin Crofts as amo… Read moreAlan Reynolds was dedicated public servant
Being a conservative Christian, I believe God creates all life, He loves all life—born and unborn—and He doesn't love the unwanted aborted lif… Read moreTo win elections, Republicans needs more compromise
The housing problem we are grappling with is not just a Wood River Valley problem. Many resort communities are dealing with the high cost of w… Read moreVote 'yes' on LOT for housing and air service
What a winter it was here in Sun Valley! Read moreThank you for a great ski season
The Jericho project of 19 townhomes in Elkhorn Village has been approved by the Sun Valley Planning and Zoning Commission. Significant issues … Read moreIssues with Elkhorn housing project need to be addressed
Hooray for the "Yellow Jackets!" Read moreKudos to resort's 'Yellow Jackets'
As a former Blaine County commissioner, I was privileged to be on the boards of Fly Sun Valley Alliance and the Friedman Memorial Airport Auth… Read moreLot for Air works
Almost one column of rentals and two pages of Help Wanted. Hello? Read moreValley economy is out of balance
Ketchum voters, please make sure you vote "Yes" for the LOT for housing on Tuesday, May 17. You can vote in person at The Community Library, g… Read moreSupport LOT for housing
The majority of people in our valley agree that affordable housing is one of the most important and pressing issues we face as a community. Read moreOur workers deserve stable housing
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…
I found reading the April 7 "Capitol Roundup" and the editorial on ranked-choice voting a complete waste of time.
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 …
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…
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…
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…
"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
Housing matters. Tourism matters. Voting matters.
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…
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.
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 …
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.
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…
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…
We live in the neighborhood where the mother mountain lion and two cubs were living up a tree in someone’s garden, with the dead elk they were eating under the tree.
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…
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.
The Fly Sun Valley Alliance sent an email out on March 2 with some fascinating statistics. In the past 10 years, the number of people arriving by plane at SUN has doubled. Airline load factors have reached a record 79% in 2022.
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…
Congratulations to the city of Sun Valley for their purchase of the Ellsworth property in Hailey! It will be a great place for workforce housing as well as preserving a beautiful historic building and landscape!
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…
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…
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…
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, …
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…
Scientists all over the globe are reporting that we are losing biological diversity, upon which our lives depend.
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…
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 …
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