Perhaps one of the most contentious words in the American political lexicon is the A word… Abortion. The word elicits strong emotions across t…
I suspect you do. After all, our species evolved in nature and for tens of thousands of years we humans lived in nature-created environments. …
Way back a half-century ago, when I arrived at the University of Idaho, the cost of a higher education was not a big concern.
State supreme court decisions about acceptable language used to define ballot initiatives — an issue not just in Idaho but elsewhere too — may…
I couldn’t tell you what I had for dinner last night, but I remember September 11, 2001.
Darrell Manning, who died last month at 94, was smack in the middle of Idaho’s hot and pivotal politics of the 60s. He served four terms as a …
I have a solid and satisfying correspondence with a history professor friend in Pennsylvania. His name is Dave. We write each other about what…
We know what Idaho voters — in the aggregate — thought of Donald Trump in the last three presidential elections: They backed him 66.9 percent …
In the August 4th edition of this newspaper Julianna Young wrote an opinion piece entitled “Prop 1 could threaten religious freedom.” She desc…


