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…
As I prepare to leave Idaho, and particularly Pocatello, I have been borderline maudlin. It is time to go, and new adventures are calling, but…
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 …
The diagnosis was not a surprise — well, yes it was, because, like many men with a health issue, we try to deny it or delay treatment when eve…
We know what Idaho voters — in the aggregate — thought of Donald Trump in the last three presidential elections: They backed him 66.9 percent …
Deaths in Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak top 3,000 as spread of disease shows no signs of slowing.
If you have been paying attention to media reports, many politicians, including some Republicans and those often-wrong pollsters, believe the …
You watch the bus go by and take it for granted. Most people do, most of the time, whether we use it at the moment or not.
Before leaving for Patagonia last December, I was in limbo regarding whether to continue my part-time legal consulting and mediation practice.…


