Feds playing games with Idaho agriculture
By Rep. Mat Erpelding and Sen. Jim Patrick
Reader Contributors
Washington politicians are taking aim at Idahoans again from our farmers, ranchers and dairymen to our technology workers. They are …
By Rep. Mat Erpelding and Sen. Jim Patrick
Reader Contributors
Washington politicians are taking aim at Idahoans again from our farmers, ranchers and dairymen to our technology workers. They are …
By Commissioner Glen Bailey
Reader Contributor
Last spring, BNSF Railway announced it would be moving forward on a proposal to add a second rail bridge over Lake Pend Oreille in …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
What faculty governance? I thought that was what we were for.
—a former member of the UI Board of Regents
Proposals to make governance “more …
It is time to get serious about protecting our children
By Christian Rose
Reader Contributor
The last time anyone at Stoneman Douglas High School remembers seeing Jr. ROTC Cadet Peter …
By Cary Kelly
Reader Contributor
As a Marine Deputy on Lake Pend Oreille for the Bonner County Sheriff’s Office for 18 years, an avid skier with more than 1,200 days …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
The combined voices of students, teachers, businesses, and legislators may represent a turning point in the battle against gun violence. It is now time for …
By Tim Bearly
Reader Contributor
It all started going downhill with the advent of that wretched Gutenberg press (if only we could have intervened and outlawed its production). ’Twas hard …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
In 2016, an event called “Citizens Before Refugees” went live on Facebook.
Scheduled to take place at the Twin Falls City Council Chambers, the protest …
By Canyon County Sheriff Kieran Donahue and Rep. Melissa Wintrow (D-Boise)
Reader Contributors
In 2015, Laura and Judy Diaz’s father shot and killed their mother at their home in Wilder. …
By T.J. Tranchell
Reader Contributor
I doubt anyone has forgotten last year’s Best Picture controversy in which “La La Land” was mistakenly announced as the winner only to have the …
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