On September 3rd, I was privileged to attend the grand opening of Meta’s new data center in Kuna, Idaho. It was a gathering of community membe…
The recently announced proposal to greatly expand the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is exciting. In order to become a Nuclear Lifecycle Inno…
Back in the early 1990s, Idaho’s former Attorney General and Lt. Governor, Dave Leroy, was a very lonely nuclear waste salesman. During his th…
Donald Trump proclaimed on July 26 that he was going to “beat the f**king s**t out of” Iran. This was in response to an Iranian missile attack…
Newly released data shows that two out of the top three states for average hourly wage growth in the nation are in our region. This is good ne…
Idaho’s Attorney General told us on March 31 that he and 23 other GOP state attorneys general were going to school the US Supreme Court on the…
The mood of Idaho voters is changing. Regular folks are starting to realize that culture war politicians have no concern about the lives of or…
The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has certainly been remaking the American legal landscape in recent years, but not in a good way. The GOP majorit…
The seeds for a legal showdown with Idaho’s Attorney General were laid on January 20, 2025, when Donald Trump issued an unconstitutional execu…
The delightful experience last week of delivering a series of lectures on the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence, in Massachusetts, including a session on the North Bridge, where the first shots were fired — “the shot heard ‘round the world” — in defense of Concord, in what was referred to as “The Cause,” deepened beyond measure my appreciation for the vision, ideals, ingenuity and courage of those who risked their lives to declare independence and create, eventually, a new nation. The aspirations of the colonists — the idea of America — have inspired generations to pursue what the Preamble of the Constitution states as our primary goal: “To create a more perfect Union.” The celebration of the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding invites the citizenry’s exploration of the foundation stones of the revolution that changed the world.
