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Updated 3 months, 4 weeks ago

OPINION: The party’s over, life goes on

Recently, I sent a note to editors and friends saying I was stepping aside from column writing and pursuing other …

Updated 1 week, 3 days ago
A big win for Osburn

Congratulations to Osburn Chief of Police Jason Woody

Updated 3 weeks ago
MEDICAID: Who are our representatives working for?

Both Senators Crapo and Risch voted to gut Medicaid which is how many children get health insurance, gut SNAP, gut food stamps, gut WIC, but still voted to allow those making over $500 million a year to get a tax c…

Updated 2 months ago
SAVE ACT: Suppresses the vote of women

Sen. Crapo has co-sponsored a bill making it harder for married women to vote. He claims this new law is to affirm that only citizens can vote in federal elections. There are some non-citizens holding green cards a…

Updated 2 months, 3 weeks ago
TRUMP: The irony of it all

It is pretty ironic that the richest man in the world tells some of the poor that they have or are spending too much money. He’s chainsawing the veterans’ health care and social services in Idaho while our state le…

Updated 3 months ago
IRS: Cuts benefit the wealthy

Trump just cut the number of IRS agents, making them unable to continue collecting billions in back taxes from wealthy tax slackers. Those IRS agents were bringing in a lot more revenue than they were costing in wa…

Updated 3 months, 4 weeks ago
PUBLIC LANDS: Don’t sell them

About every 20 years or so, there is some governor or state representative in the Western United States who proposes selling off public lands for development or resource exploitment. Lands that were originally set …

Updated 5 months ago
TRUMP: Morbid sense of humor?

If Donald Trump was just kidding about buying Greenland, taking back the Panama Canal, renaming the Gulf of Mexico, making Canada another state, then he has a morbid sense of humor.

Updated 5 months ago
OPINION: School choice plan called a ‘government handout’

The fight over school vouchers might be the leading issue going into this legislative session, but the term “vouchers” will have selective use.

Updated 7 months, 4 weeks ago
HARRIS: Let’s get her elected

I heard one of the best orations I’ve heard in any of my 90 years recently by a former president. President Obama made the case for voting correctly this November.

Updated 8 months, 2 weeks ago
LETTER: Hearn's criticisms of his opponent

I think people expect legal and ethical behavior from legislators and the voters of District 2 can be assured that they will get that from me when I am elected in November.

Updated 8 months, 2 weeks ago
LETTER: Dist. 2 Voters lucky to have Hearn as candidate

District 2 voters are fortunate to have a candidate such as Tom Hearn running to be their state senator.

Updated 10 months, 2 weeks ago
REGAN: Uncommon sense

Mr. Regan criticizes George Orwell’s advice to “reject evidence of your eyes and ears” and proceeds to tell us to reject the evidence of OUR eyes and ears by not believing what we saw and heard these last couple ye…

Updated 10 months, 3 weeks ago
OPINION: Harris gives Dems a needed wake-up call

What a difference a single decision can make in a presidential election.

Updated 10 months, 4 weeks ago
HARRIS: High time for a woman president

I’ve been thinking that it’s high time for a woman president in our country. Hillary Clinton came close to it in 2020, getting more popular votes than Trump, and now Kamala Harris is very capable of fulfilling that…