Columns Archives

• Idaho Geologist Honored for Lifetime Achievement
  

• Skyline High Student on "Rachael Ray"; Helps Make Dinner for President Clinton
  

• Twisters in Idaho?
  

• Managing Wolves In Our Area
  

• Suspicious Business Practices
  

• Get started on your gardening
  

• Feds: bull trout remain imperiled
  

• Idaho History: Warm Springs has been a showplace since 1890s
  

• Dog Bite Prevention
  

• Spending Your Stimulus Check Wisely
  

• Go do it: Ballet Idaho's Balanchine and Silk & Steel
  

• Fire Season Prevention Tips
  

• From Baghdad to Boise, a renewal
  

• Earth Day 2008: Nancy Pelosi Newest Author Of Scripture
  

• Gem State Voter Guide Now Live
  

• Evolution: Life from crystals, lightning or aliens
  

• New take on eating local gains ground in the Valley
  

• Could There Be Life On Saturn's Moon Enceladus?
  

• Weather, Water…and Congress
  

• Fault lines evidence of old earthquakes
  

• West Enders are Idaho's mysterious noise experts
  

• Boise in March? It's better than Arco in
  

• Learning All Five Heart Attack Signs and Symptoms Could Save Your Life
  

• Make an offer
  

• When you're too sick not to go to work
  

• This is Idaho: Mind your knitting around here
  

• The Wealthy financed by the IRS Codes through the middle class.
  

• Campaign Money Links SBA Fraud Company to Key Lawmakers
  

• It’s time for Larry Craig to Resign
  

• GOV. OTTER RESISTS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, CALLS IT A CHRISTMAS TREE
  

• Clinical Trials Exclude Patients Due to Travel Requirement
  

• Moscow Means Music
  

• The Ol’ Bait and Switch
  

• ACTION NEEDED ON WATER WOES
  

• ROOSEVELT'S "NEW DEAL" PROLONGED DEPRESSION RATHER THAN ALLEVIATING IT
  

• ENUMERATED POWERS ACT WOULD HELP RESTRAIN CONGRESS
  

• Self-Employed Left Twisting in the Wind on Health Insurance
  

• IDAHO'S CONGRESSMEN SPLIT ON SCHIP VOTE
  

• AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME: MERIT PAY FOR TEACHERS
  

• DOBSON: PRO-FAMILY LEADERS WILL NOT SUPPORT PRO-ABORTION CANDIDATE
  

• GOP LIKELY FINISHED IF GIULIANI GETS NOMINATION
  

• Cancer - a Devastating Disease
  

• Parker v. D. C. Revisited
  

• Support Growing for Congressional Reform Effort
  

• Will the SCOTUS Decide Parker v. D.C.?
  

• REDUCING CO2 EMISSIONS: HARDEST ON THE POOR
  

• LARRY CRAIG'S BEST FRIEND: THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
  

• The Great Birthright Citizenship Fiasco
  

• IVA: IDAHOANS SHOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR SEN. CRAIG'S CONTRIBUTIONS; CHARACTER CRUCIAL IN CHOICE OF REPLACEMENT
  

• Social Security? - Investing? - Privatization?
  

• Larry Craig is History
  

• Sen. Larry Craig's Family Needs Our Prayers
  

• SADLY, RESIGNATION SEEMS APPROPRIATE FOR SENATOR CRAIG
  

• Credit Where It's Due
  

• FAMILY, FAITH IMPORTANT TO YOUNG ADULTS
  

• Pocatello/Chubbuck School District #25 and Let's Rebuild America
  

• GUEST POST ON EDUCATION: A SIMPLE SOLUTION TO THE 78 PERCENT FAILURE RATE
  

• Is Anyone Listening?
  

• Where's the Beef?
  

• BUILDING A DEMOCRACY IN A MUSLIM NATION AN IMPOSSIBILITY
  

• Where is the Fiscal Responsibility?
  

• Children, the "Real Silent Majority"
  

• CIEDRA WILDERNESS BILL IS FULL OF GIVEAWAYS
  

• Losing Focus
  

• THOUGHTS ON THE GOP RACE FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION
  

• CIEDRA, How Much Wilderness is Enough?
  

• The Issue of “Local control”
  

• Building Toward Zero
  

• GOV. OTTER WANTS TO RAISE YOUR TAXES $200 MILLION
  

• Seven Reasons the Pocatello Hospital needs New Management
  

• THE PROBLEM WITH PRE-K PROGRAMS: THEY DON'T WORK
  

• LAND LEGACY TRUST DESERVES PUBLIC SUPPORT
  

• CIEDRA - A Matter of Balance
  

• Is Pocatello a Hopelessly Codependent Community???
  

• GREAT NEWS FOR IDAHO JUDICIARY: EISMANN NEW CHIEF JUSTICE
  

• THIMBY - Thin My Backyard
  

• Hoffa's In Your Voting Booth
  

• Deal with the Here and Now
  

• Energy Bill is Due
  

• Global Warming
  

• Illegal Immigration
  

• No Passing the Buck on Passports
  

• 22 Problems With The Senate's Illegal Immigration Bill
  

• CIEDRA, Giving Away Our Public Land
  

• Sending Out an S.O.S.
  

• Do-nothing Legislature? I Think Not!
  

• The Three C’s of Success
  

• Letter to the Editor: Idaho Falls Police Station
  

• THE RIGHT WAY TO CELEBRATE MEMORIAL DAY
  

• IVA REVEALS TODAY THAT STATEMENTS ON JUDICIAL QUESTIONNAIRE DRAWN VERBATIM FROM IDAHO STATE CONSTITUTION
  

• Have you seen the “wave” in the Gas Prices?
  

• Time to End the Free Ride
  

• Attitudes Have Got To Change
  

• IVA PRODUCES IDAHO SUPREME COURT QUESTIONNAIRE
  

• OPINION: REAL ID IMPLEMENTATION MISSES THE MARK
  

• Mayday, Mayday!
  

• Sali: Amnesty is no answer to illegal immigration
  

• A Jewel in the Gem State
  

• DEMOCRATS CAVE TO TERRORIST DEMANDS
  

• SALI: CONGRESS ABANDONS TROOPS, SENDS 'THE MOST CHILLING MESSAGE' WITH IRAQ VOTE
  

• Iraq Funding Bill: Still Not Good Enough for Our Troops
  

• SPENCER: NOT AT WAR ON "TERROR" BUT AGAINST RADICAL ISLAM
  

• What will your inventory show?
  

• What Price Human Life?
  

• DO YOU BELIEVE PROPERTY RIGHTS AND THE RIGHT TO VOTE ON TAX ISSUES ARE THE BASIS OF OUR COUNTRY???
  

• How Does Our Garden Grow?
  

• Madness personified
  

• Congress can take a lesson from Idaho
  

• ESCR BILL FAILS TO WIN VETO-PROOF MAJORITY
  

• One Dinner Table at a Time
  

• OPINION: LEGISLATURE DESERVES CREDIT, PRAISE
  

• Where Is the Immigration Debate Headed?
  

• Terrible Tax Day Approaches
  

• House Highlights - Final Update 2007
  

• Idaho's presidential vote goes to ...?
  

• The Fundamental Flaw with Social Work
  

• Trees for Tots
  

• SENATE REFUSES TO CONSIDER OVERRIDE FOR TAX RELIEF - POOR GET NOTHING
  

• House Democrats attempt to turn Idahoans into political pawns
  

• LOCAL AUTHOR FEATURED IN WASHINGTON TIMES, EXPLAINS ORIGIN OF SECOND AMENDMENT
  

• Congressman Mike Simpson and Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard introduce the "Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007"
  

• IVA ACTION ALERT: CONTACT REPRESENTATIVES THIS MORNING TO URGE OVERRIDE OF GOVERNOR'S VETO OF GROCERY TAX CREDIT
  

• House Highlights March 25, 2007
  

• Iraq Supplemental Funding Harms Troops
  

• SALI: DEMOCRATIC PROPOSAL MICROMANAGES WAR, BUYS VOTES FOR DEFEAT
  

• Hold on to your Purse Strings
  

• Budget Business as Usual
  

• Legislature Should Override Governor's Veto on H121
  

• Rep. James Ruchti Legislative Update, March 16, 2007
  

• Rep. James Ruchti Legislative Update, March 9, 2007
  

• What Bugs Me
  

• GREAT NEWS: PARENTAL CONSENT BILL PASSES IDAHO HOUSE 53-14
  

• Sali Says Democrats’ Iraq Proposal “Fails Test of Leadership”
  

• The Second Amendment is for All Americans
  

• Celebrate Support for Second Amendment
  

• How to Win at the Lottery
  

• A Nation of Wusses
  

• What if…?
  

• JESSICA'S LAW AND IDAHO LAW: IDAHO LAW NEEDS TO BE STRENGTHENED
  

• Who’s Your Momma?!
  

• House Highlights, March 4, 2007
  

• THE FOLLY OF CONSENSUS-BASED SCIENCE
  

• Defeated Bill Could Have Disadvantaged Spanish Speaking Citizens
  

• Parents & Citizens S.A.V.E. DDA's
  

• Journalism, a Tradition of Corruption?
  

• We're a Republic . . . Not a Democracy
  

• SPECIAL REPORT: PARENTAL CONSENT PASSES SENATE 23-12
  

• COMMUNICATION LINK TO LEGISLATURE SEVERED
  

• House Highlights, February 26, 2007
  

• Ammendment Makes Personal Property Tax Bill More Palatable
  

• Enhancing the ESA – Endangered Species Act
  

• Rep. James Ruchti Legislative Report - Week 6
  

• Rep. James Ruchti Legislative Report - Week 5
  

• Rep. James Ruchti Legislative Report, Week 4
  

• House Highlights February 16, 2007
  

• PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS AT ISSUE IN DOMESTIC ELK CONTROVERSY
  

• The Calm Before the Storm
  

• A Bad Day for Our Troops, A Bad Day for Our Country
  

• Vote by Mail
  

• The Minimum Wage Bill: Real Reform or More Politics As Usual?
  

• Developmental Disability Agencies BEWARE, Department Screws Children Again
  

• Abuse Equals Lack of Responsibility
  

• OBAMA: HISTORY OF NOT TAKING A STAND
  

• DEBATE WITH THE ACLU OVER THE TEACHING OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN IN PUBLIC SCHOOL SCIENCE CLASSES
  

• House Highlights - February 12, 2007
  

• SPECIAL REPORT: PARENTAL CONSENT GOES TO SENATE FLOOR
  

• Draw a line in the Sand—But make it a long way from the Sandbox
  

• Surge to Success
  

• House Highlights February 4, 2007
  

• Battling for Balance
  

• The Minimum Wage Debate: What's Really Going on in Washington Politics?
  

• House Highlights - January 28, 2007
  

• Third Week and Education Issues
  

• Grocery Tax, Sportsmen, and the Dropping of the Other Shoe
  

• The Bottom Line on Health Care
  

• New Congress, New Beginning
  

• President Bush Outlines Vision for America in State of the Union
  

• Slap Smart
  

• SIMPSON REACTS TO STATE OF THE UNION
  

• CRAIG COMMENTS ON THE PRESIDENT’S STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH
  

• House Highlights, January 22, 2007
  

• Climate Change: California Dreamin'
  

• Helping the Poor
  

• House Highlights, January 14, 2007
  

• AMENDMENT OFFERED TO PROTECT FREEDOM OF SPEECH
  

• THE STEM CELL BILL AND LEGISLATING MORALITY
  

• Dreams of Winning the Lotto
  

• CRAIG WELCOMES NEW FOREST SERVICE CHIEF
  

• Bipartisanship is a Two-Way Street
  

• Hello -- The election is over
  

• MORE DETAILS ON BILL WHICH WILL LIMIT YOUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH
  

• CRAIG SELECTED TO OVERSEE INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS
  

• CRAIG REACTS TO PRESIDENT’S IRAQ STRATEGY
  

• Simpson Reacts to President's Speech on Iraq
  

• Difference in Opinion
  

• CRAIG INTRODUCES BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT
  

• Disneyland and Dad
  

• Thank You!
  

• President Ford Passes Away at 93
  

• Awarding Our Youth
  

• Hang in There, It’s Almost Over
  

• House Highlights – Pre-session
  

• Small businesses offer shoppers unique products and services that can’t be found at large chain retailers. According to a 2005 survey, 42 percent of all small businesses introduced at least one new or significantly improved product, service, process or
  

• Gender Bias Cuts Both Ways
  

• Why this country needs socialized medicine
  

• A Holiday Miracle
  

• Slaying the Monster
  

• Parenting through the Holidays
  

• SENATOR CRAIG REACTS TO IRAQ REPORT
  

• A WIN FOR IDAHO FAMILIES: LAWERENCE DENNEY ELECTED SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
  

• Time to clean house
  

• The Christmas Lie
  

• Similar Goals, Different Approaches
  

• AMERICANS PREFER "MERRY CHRISTMAS" TO "HAPPY HOLIDAYS"
  

• Two Words for Surviving the Holidays... Lotsa Eggnog!!
  

• Government Funds Private Business
  

• Turkeys and Donkeys
  

• NINTH CIRCUIT PROHIBITS VOLUNTARY WORSHIP
  

• MARRIAGE AMENDMENT PASSES BY DECISIVE MARGIN
  

• Election Day in Chubbuck
  

• New Slogan for Democrats
  

• How will Prop 2 Affect My Rights?
  

• Trust your neighbors -- vote yes on Prop 2 Jim Gerber Readers Advisory Board
  

• Sali Rebutts Grant Ad
  

• Lt. Ross Bales and the “Potato Peeler Kids”
  

• The ID Examiner deserves an A+
  

• Disconnect
  

• Trickle Down Economics?
  

• Busy Bee Congress
  

• Lets Face It, I'm a Crappy Republican
  

• Clean Coal Gasification
  

• Exalted Culture or 2% Fringe Group, Who Decides?
  

• Congressman Otter - Can HE Decide?
  

• VOTING AND VOTING OUR VALUES
  

• Accusation Centers More on Voting Record than Fact
  

• Vote YES on SJR 107
  

• JAY SEKULOW TO BOISE PASTORS: FREE TO ENDORSE MARRIAGE AMENDMENT, TEN COMMANDMENTS INITIATIVE
  

• Half a Turn
  

• Past History Important When Choosing Candidates
  

• Dramatic Changes for Veterans
  

• 'TIS THE SEASON-TO VOTE
  

• The G.O.P.'s Secret Weapon
  

• TIME TO TALK ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
  

• Otter dodges and weaves on simple issue
  

• Airline Employees Facing 41% Cut in Take Home Pay
  

• Salmon Recovery: Salvation or Supper?
  

• THE TRUE MEANING OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT, PART 5
  

• AFTER THE FIRE
  

• FIRST AMENDMENT, PART 4
  

• FIRST AMENDMENT, PART 3
  

• THE TRUE MEANING OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT, PART I
  

• CRAPO: “THE TRUE HEROES OF YESTERDAY AND TODAY”
  

• SALI: LET'S MAKE ENGLISH THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE UNITED STATES
  

• CITY BLINKS, AGREES TO CHANGE WORDING ON INITIATIVE
  

• Idaho Congressmen Praise Passage of Secure Fence Act to Strengthen America's Border Security
  

• 9/11: A Clearer Understanding
  

• A VERY SPECIAL BIRTHDAY
  

• SALI: LET'S MAKE ENGLISH THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE UNITED STATES
  

• IDAHO DELEGATION APPLAUDS SIGNING OF SOFTWOOD LUMBER AGREEMENT
  

• CRAPO NOTES COMMITMENT TO FREEDOM ON 9/11
  

• Smoky, Extra Crispy
  

• Enclosed-pen hunting operations are gaining greater popularity in Idaho
  

• A WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES
  

• OUR CHILDREN TO WITNESS THE END OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION?
  

• Good Old-Fashioned Democracy
  

• Our Political System Is In Need Of Rebalancing
  

• Why the Property to Sales Tax Switch is a Bad Idea
  

• Property Tax - Significant Relief
  

• Surpassed Expectations – Rx Plan Saving Seniors and Taxpayers
  

• Marty, Larry and Dirk
  

• Who’s Responsible for Responsible Government?
  

• Government and the Economy
  

• Governor's Tax Switch Plan Should Include Raising Idaho's Super-Majority Requirement for New Supplemental and Bond Property Tax Levies.
  

• Idaho's Off-Road Uproar
  

• More Economic Spin from the Daily News
  

• RISCH TAX PLAN: SPECIAL INTERESTS WIN -- YOU LOSE
  

• A Star-Spangled Project
  

• CRAPO, DORGAN RAISE AWARENESS ON VASCULAR DISEASE
  

• PENSIONERS AND PLANS WIN IN PENSION REFORM
  

• CRAPO AFFIRMS PROTECTIONS FOR INDIAN CHILDREN AT RISK
  

• CRAPO INTRODUCES OWYHEE INITIATIVE
  

• OROFINO STUDENTS TO JOIN CRAPO ON AUGUST “CAPITOL WATCH” PROGRAM
  

• Why the Property to Sales Tax Switch is a Bad Idea
  

• FAIR TIME-AN OPPORTUNITY FOR HEALTH
  

• CRAPO: COLLEGE SAVINGS PLANS GOOD ADDITION TO PENSION REFORM
  

• CRAPO HEARING TO LOOK AT FOREST RECOVERY
  

• Setting the Record Straight
  

• I’ve Got Mail
  

• CRAPO: VIETNAM, PERU TRADE BOON TO AGRICULTURE
  

• Simpson: "Otter Did Not Miss Vote"
  

• Military & Civilian Powers/Church & State
  

• The Principle of Separation of Powers - Introduction
  

• WASHINGTON RULING "A TERRIBLE BLOW" TO GAY MARRIAGE ADVOCATES
  

• Tax Plans Similar But Does the Taxpayer Actually Win?
  

• A Place of Our Own
  

• CRAPO LAUDS VOTING RIGHTS ACT
  

• IDAHO DELEGATION COMMENTS ON JAPAN BEEF OPENING
  

• CRAPO: CONSERVATION PROGRAM SUCCESS
  

• Do We Just Need Someone to Hate?
  

• Merit Pay—The Post Register Got it Right!
  

• A Range of Options
  

• Merit Pay—The Post Register Got it Right!
  

• Simpson's CIEDRA Passes the House
  

• CRAPO’S ELECTRONIC DUCK STAMP BILL APPROVED
  

• Horizontal & Vertical Separation of Powers
  

• SEPARATION OF POWERS SOURCES
  

• Horizontal & Vertical Separation of Powers