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GOP getting warmed up with bashing Biden
Republicans are having a field day going after President Biden … and to think, we’re more than a year away until...
Senators look to Carter-era solution for debt fix
Here’s something that I never thought I’d see – Idaho Republican Sens. Jim Risch and Mike Crapo embracing a failed policy from the Carter administration for ...
BLM nominee can’t hide from past
For most of us, sins from 32 years ago generally don’t have much relevance in our lives today. But there are rare instances when a person can’t walk away fro...
Health obstacles are not death sentences
Talking with Idaho Congressman Russ Fulcher about his recent cancer diagnosis a couple of weeks ago hit home with me. In many ways, being lucky is better tha...
Sup's Corner
Being Kellogg School District’s Superintendent was never something I had thought about doing as an educator.
Bedke seeks political career change
House Speaker Scott Bedke of Oakley, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, easily checks off the boxes for that office.
Risch influence goes in different direction
Sen. Jim Risch’s political life was much more fun with Donald Trump as president and Republicans had control of the Senate. But perhaps there is something li...
Partisanship puts up roadblock to progress
During his heyday as governor, Cecil Andrus – a Democrat – had an uncanny way of appealing to even the most partisan of Republicans.
McGeachin has critics where she wants them
If you are just tuning in, she issued an executive order prohibiting governmental mask mandates in Idaho while Gov. Brad Little was out of the state, attendi...
Big name, small town
One hundred and seventy five years ago this week, James Frederick Wardner was born on May 19, 1846 and proceeded to live anything but a dull and idle life. J...
McGeachin seeks end to leftist brainwashing
A lieutenant governor in Idaho has two basic constitutional functions – to preside over the Senate when the Legislature is in session and to serve as acting ...
Tired of liberal politics? Move to Idaho
Elsa Owsley, a Coeur d’Alene real estate agent, has a long list of selling points for prospective out-of-state buyers thinking about moving to the Gem State.
Crapo backs COVID relief, not pork
daho Sen. Mike Crapo hopes that at least a couple of Democrats will want to take a second look at the $1.9 trillion COVID relief package that is heading to t...
Tooth talk
As discussed previously, our knowledge of the connections between mouth diseases and their relationship with other diseases of the body have never been more ...
Idaho GOP focus moves beyond Trump
Although the GOP continues to be the party of Donald Trump, at least one prominent Idaho Republican has put the former president in his rearview mirror.