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COMMENTARY: A bad idea that sounds good
In 2021, Idaho spent $8,376 per student per year. With 25 students per class that is $209,400 per classroom where the average teachers wage is $51,901. Allowin…
MY TURN: Post Falls School Safety Forum
The Uvalde school shooting is the most recent school shooting; but, unfortunately, will not be the last.
MLP had not went
Your Mrs. Language Person is something of a fuddy duddy.
COMMENTARY: Idaho needs the Quality Education Act
A citizen’s initiative, the Quality Education Act, will be on the ballot in November. In the initiative big corporations (C Corporations, not S corps or small family owned businesses) will see their taxes returned …
Main Street: Unexpected camaraderie a yard sale bonus
Last week’s Main Street column on the subject of beginning the process of uncluttering our home via a yard sale definitely struck a chord with quite a few readers, especially my Baby Boomer peers.
Think it doesn’t matter? Chaos theory says it can
Thursday’s column explored the ancient African concept of ubuntu — the idea we are all somehow connected, so that compassion for another person is, at heart, a…
California reservoirs continue to struggle
The southwestern portion of the country has been suffering from a 22-year drought.
Huckleberries
Sharing stage with a scene-stealing donkey
MY TURN: Killing women will never be pro-life
This weekend at a state party convention, the Idaho Republican party has resoundingly voted to sacrifice our daughters, our wives, and our mothers to protect a political concept: absolutely no abortions in Idaho.
OPINION: A Moon waxes as a Luna wanes
The present-day Republican Party has revealed who it really is and it ain’t pretty. Many of us thought that Tom Luna was way too far to the right, but the newl…
COMMENTARY: New Moon rising
The Idaho Republican Party’s (IDGOP) biennial convention, held in Twin Falls, wrapped up last Saturday under new leadership with the election of Dorothy Moon (…
A lot to be thankful for in beautiful Kootenai
After what seemed like a longer-than-usual spring, summer is here
'I am because you are'
That’s ubuntu: The belief that we are defined by our compassion and humanity toward others. A spirit of togetherness. Of our ability to work with one ano…
COMMENTARY: Public lands belong to all of us
...a handful of well-positioned Idaho politicians with help from some out-of-state financial backers want to take control of public land in order to sell it of…
Removing stuff will be so satisfying
Too much, for far too long