For every gallon of gasoline you pump, 32 cents goes to the state where the budget surplus is projected to be $1.3 billion. That’s $1.3 billio…
May 17 is quickly approaching. As we’ve editorialized before, this year’s primary is incredibly consequential.
It’s nearly 5,500 miles from Driggs to Chernihiv, Ukraine. That’s where Jim Hill, a Minnesota native who had been living in Driggs, was gunned…
As the Idaho House of Representatives continues to try to push through election legislation attempting to solve problems that do not exist by …
The incident from Nov. 9 involving Bingham County Sheriff Craig Rowland, for which he is now facing criminal charges, is receiving national at…
Governor Brad Little on Monday proclaimed the month of October “Idaho Health Care Worker Appreciation Month,” and encouraged all Idahoans to s…
Now that we have spent the longest legislative session Idaho history listening to lawmakers harp about the evils of a fairly obscure academic …
Executive Director of the NFSHS and Ty Jones, Executive Director of the IHSAA
Give the Idaho Legislature points for audacity.
The BYU-Idaho administration dropped a bombshell on thousands of students and families last week. In just a few sentences, they turned the liv…
I recently listened to an interesting audiobook. The title of it is, “The Burnout Generation” by Anne Helen Petersen. The book explores the ca…
As a first reason to reelect him, Mayor Ogden claims he “successfully defended the city against two lawsuits,” an audacious reformulation of reality.
Electric cooperatives throughout rural America, including Fall River Rural Electric Cooperative, face a financial crisis inadvertently caused …
Shortly before the Allied Forces stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-day, seventy-five years ago, General Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote an inspi…
Henry Ford said, “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t — you’re right.” I have been thinking a lot about that quote lately while s…
Ronald Reagan once quipped that a government agency “is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth.” So it’s hard to see a…
I just returned from a great vacation in Island Park, and really enjoyed the beauty of this area. I watched people with boats, fishing poles, …
As Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, I recently led a hearing entitled: “Confronting Threats From C…
One day when I was in my mid-teens, I was helping an older lady from our community. Leona was a widow and almost ninety. She lived alone and s…
Shortly before the Allied Forces stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-day, seventy-five years ago, General Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote an inspi…
Almost nine years after Idaho adopted Common Core, state officials still can’t say whether the supposedly-more-rigorous education standards ha…
Have you ever looked back and wondered what you were thinking with some of your decisions? When looking at our past, many fall prey to the old…
One of my all-time favorite movie scenes comes from the movie, “A Knight’s Tale”. The movie tells the story of a young peasant boy—William—who…
The Equality Act (H.R. 5 in the House and S.788 in the Senate) will add classes to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Its goal is to “prohibit disc…
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