Empathy, to Charlie Kirk, meant trying to feel someone else’s pain or sorrow as if it were your own. Charlie said, “I think empathy is a made-…
State supreme court decisions about acceptable language used to define ballot initiatives — an issue not just in Idaho but elsewhere too — may…
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 …
We know what Idaho voters — in the aggregate — thought of Donald Trump in the last three presidential elections: They backed him 66.9 percent …
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…
If there’s a word to describe the opposite of a banner water year, 2026 was it. After an exceptionally hot and dry summer in 2025, Idaho farme…
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.
If you have been paying attention to media reports, many politicians, including some Republicans and those often-wrong pollsters, believe the …


