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El Nino continues to strengthen
For many months, we have been featuring the strengthening El Nino in the waters of the south-central Pacific Ocean…
Animals are not leaving Yellowstone
The Yellowstone supervolcano has been making headlines in recent weeks. There have been videos and comments circulating on major social media platforms about l…
HUCKLEBERRIES: Counting the days
Gone is the venerable foursome who illustrated “The Old Man and the Sea”: Jim Shepperd, Elmer Jordan, Bill Wood and Ace Walden. Gone, too, are the matriarchs i…
MY TURN: Lived history and the hollowing of American manufacturing
I was a school-age kid in the 1960s, when environmental destruction was impossible to ignore. I remember the Cuyahoga River catching fire in Ohio in 1969 and Lake Erie being declared a "dead lake" due to pollution.…
MY TURN: Idaho's hunting and angling community stands as one
The recent attempt to sell off up to 3 million acres of public lands during Congressional budget reconciliation was a serious threat to one of the cornerstones of our outdoor lifestyle in the American West.
OPINION: Judge not
They say that a judge is just a lawyer that knows a governor. This is mostly true in Idaho. When a vacancy occurs in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals or a D…
OPINION: If consensus is possible in Kootenai County, it’s possible anywhere
You might be surprised to learn that Democrats and Republicans sometimes listen to each other. When we listen to each other, we learn important truths. One tru…
OPINION: Little, Risch and Crapo are betting heavily on Trump’s MAGA program
The envelope in my mailbox screamed out, “this ENDORSEMENT has IDAHO LIBERALS worried.” Fearing the worst, I gingerly opened the envelope, only to find that th…
Transactional small talk isn't my fav
You know how every grocery checker or salon service provider asks about your day or your fun plans for the rest of the day or other such small talk prompts? I …
The Earth is having shorter days
Our planet has been spinning a little faster than usual and this trend is expected to continue into early August. On July 9, it’s estimated that the day was ab…
OPINION: Foundation has the backs of wildland fighters
Burk Minor, the executive director and co-founder of the Boise-based Wildland Firefighter Foundation, isn’t much to talking about himself.
HUCKLEBERRIES: Be prepared ... to travel
Tiny Athol once was the railhead at the center of the Girl Scouts’ universe. On July 15, 1965, 616 girls from New York and New Jersey emerged from 27 Northern …
OPINION: Conservative middle
“You only catch flak when you are over the target” comes from the World War II bomber crews who would attract anti-aircraft fire as they approached their desti…
MY TURN: Consortium dissolves to boot CLN out
I recently attended a truly extraordinary rendition of the operetta, The Pirates of Penzance, put on by the Spokane Valley Summer Theater. I believe the lyric…
OPINION: It’s déjà vu all over again for families of some American service personnel
Sgt. Cuauhtemoc “Temo” Juarez served on three continents as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps from 1995 to 1999. After that, he joined the Florida National Gua…
OPINION: Identity politics
What is the first thing you want people to notice about you?