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My Turn
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MY TURN: AI writing and beyond
Last week, I wrote 269 words for the back cover of a book I recently completed. After some edits, I thought it was…
Our history is worth preserving
Whether one is a history buff or not, there’s just no getting around the fact that history surrounds and identifies all of us no matter who, what or where we a…
Heather Scott enjoys swamp VIP treatment
Rep. Heather Scott of Blanchard, a hardline conservative and one of the few legislators who writes regular newsletters to constituents, usually has plenty of dialogue that appeals to her base.
Take a close look into Avista sale details
Kenny Moore’s My Turn column provided an excellent analysis of the BC Hydro-Avista buyout issue.
The best moves for new school
Recently I realized that once again District 271 is interested in trading with the City of Hayden for this historic school. When it was built in 1936 it was in…
There's no room for fear
With the parade, the fireworks, the Fourth of July picnics, and all the celebration of our great nation and the freedoms we enjoy, perhaps there is also room f…
You might be an alien if
Have you ever felt like you don’t fit in? It doesn’t really matter if it’s because you came from the Andromeda galaxy or just another country. It’s a lonely feeling.
Six years of inaction have brought us to this
The Idaho Freedom Foundation’s Wayne Hoffman has an interesting solution for providing health care coverage to the working poor — and Medicare expansion is not it.
Why sale of Avista is cause for alarm
Steve Cameron’s column “Pull the plug on Avista merger hysteria” in the June 28 Cd’A Press was written in a vacuum and does not reference the facts of the issue. No one knows who the unlisted owners of Hydro One ar…
Confronting today's threats to independence
Dear Sgt. Hosbrook, though you are my ancestor, I thought it only fitting and proper to address you by your rank and title in that great war for independence t…
Celebrate – and preserve – the Constitution today
As a constitutional law professor, the Fourth of July provides me an opportunity to appraise the health of our grand “experiment,” a term Thomas Jefferson used…
One way to strengthen our schools (and nation)
We Americans owe our freedom to a heritage going back 4,000 years. Yet most High School graduates are only taught about the past 300. This cultural heritage te…
Time for America to take a close look
On June 15, Donald Trump denied that he possessed the authority as president to end his very own family separation policy on our southern border. Trump declared: “We can’t do it by executive order.”
If you have love, you've got everything
Love is the mainspring that keeps our clocks ticking. When you’re young it runs too fast and then in a heartbeat you’re my age and happy it’s running at all.
Don't tell Betsy Russell that newspapers are dead
Betsy Russell has seen just about everything in her long career covering Idaho politics, so there isn’t much that surprises her.
To merge or not? That's the question
Don’t look now but a huge fly just landed in the middle of the mud that has dogged Avista Utilities’ proposed sale to the Canadian-owned and operated HydroOne headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.