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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. …

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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.

Between 1347 and 1353 AD, the Black Death killed an estimated 75 to 200 million people across Europe and Asia. The agent was a bacterium, and the vectors were fleas carried by rats. Those rats are now spreading across the Treasure Valley.

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State supreme court decisions about acceptable language used to define ballot initiatives — an issue not just in Idaho but elsewhere too — may…

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I couldn’t tell you what I had for dinner last night, but I remember September 11, 2001.

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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 …

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I have a solid and satisfying correspondence with a history professor friend in Pennsylvania. His name is Dave. We write each other about what…

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We know what Idaho voters — in the aggregate — thought of Donald Trump in the last three presidential elections: They backed him 66.9 percent …

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In the August 4th edition of this newspaper Julianna Young wrote an opinion piece entitled “Prop 1 could threaten religious freedom.” She desc…