The defeat for re-election of Idaho Senate President pro tem Chuck Winder in the recent Republican primary was widely described as an upset. A…
Here’s a rule voters generally should stick with when it comes to making ballot decisions:
Opinions among close and careful observers of the Idaho Legislature I know differ on whether the chambers of the Idaho Legislature readily div…
If the early reads on the U.S. Supreme Court are anywhere near right, Idaho’s new abortion law may have a sweeping and deep effect in many sta…
In opting not to veto a bill whose rough predecessor he did kill a year earlier, Governor Brad Little has handed to each of the couple million…
The idea pops up with some regularity: In Idaho politics, could 2024 turn into another 1990 — or maybe an echo of it?
In my last column, I wrote about the larger-than-usual number of Democrats running this year for the legislature, which jumped out at me as th…
Some months ago people at the Idaho Democratic Party said something striking: This year, we will run at least one candidate in every legislati…
It’s a new move in Idaho, this process on the part of some local Republican county central committees to censure elected officials, who have w…
Jim Weatherby, who died on February 20, was visible for decades to many people in Idaho as the go-to “observer” or “analyst” of Idaho governme…


