Misinformation continues to flow from the pens of local conservatives. Let’s start with Timothy Moore. In his Jan. 11 letter, he claims that it was the COVID-19 vaccine that caused Buffalo Bil…

As the Idaho Republican Central Committee considers stripping young members of voting powers on the party’s executive board, one Republican legislator has taken his party’s attitude on youth i…

The Great Recession, from late 2007 to June of 2009, was the most severe financial and economic collapse since the Great Depression. With sales tax revenues plummeting by more than 10% in the …

“Educational choice” sounds like an innocent idea. Dale Courtney, in his column on Jan. 18, presents this idea as a “win for parents.” However, it is really only a win for parents of students …

She was tall, slender, and Black, a woman in her 60s, with close-cropped white hair. She walked directly to the greeter’s desk at the Pullman Senior Center lunch and said, “Hi! I’m Terry Buffi…

Moab, Utah, gets just 8 inches of rain per year, yet rainwater flooded John Weisheit’s basement last summer. Extremes are common in a desert: Rain and snow are rare, and a deluge can cause flooding.

In the very early morning hours of Jan. 20, 2013, an 18-year-old University of Idaho freshman, Joseph Wiederrick, died of hypothermia under a bridge on the edge of Moscow. It was a tragic situ…

With all my heart I cherish the saga of George Santos (aka Anthony Devolder, aka Anthony Zabrovsky) because he’s the quintessential epitome of the MAGA freak show.

Have the past two years of productive governance, mostly responsible leadership, and nonviolent elections left you bored to tears? You’re in luck: The circus is back in town.

A horrifying mass murder. A community paralyzed with fear. A suspect in custody. A trial looming.

The New Yorker recently published a lengthy piece on the risk Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new coalition government is turning Israel from a democracy into a theocracy.

I want to respond to Marty Trillhaase’s editorial, “Nothing subtle will stop a school voucher bill,” reprinted last week in the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.

The Mountain States Policy Center, or MSPC, which bills itself as a “free-market-oriented think tank,” has been promoting what it calls a “school choice” plan. The words conjure up visions of …

Lead surgeon, Bartley Griffith, exclaimed “the heart fired right up.” And with that as testimony, the world’s first “successful” transplant of an animal heart into a human was performed. The h…

Some people have become so alarmed by what children might read in school or in libraries that they want books they don’t like removed — immediately. The targeted books include scenes of sexual…

The First Amendment says we have the right to free speech, right?

Just about the time you think there’s no bottom to the lunacy we’re witnessing in our world, straight out of the mouths of institutions that we count on for information, a new contestant emerg…

By 1973, Haight-Ashbury had faded from memory and the anti-war Berkeley radicalism had lost its sting. Psychedelics gave way to hard drugs and, with that, came street crime.

The drama surrounding Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s speakership bid remains nothing short of surreal.

In their infamous booklet, “Southern Slavery as It Was,” (20% plagiarized), Doug Wilson and Steve Wilkins wrote: “There has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual…

The story underlying the brutal slaying of University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Madison Mogen continues to unfold, but I think that I speak for most …

It did not take long for newly-elected Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador to be confronted by two troubling conflict of interest situations. He mishandled the first case and will soon have t…

A carbon tax is “the ‘number one thing’ that will help curb global emissions and rising temperatures,” according to Utah Senator Mitt Romney in a Washington Post webinar last month. A carbon t…

Finally, after a 50-year effort, four massive dams on the Klamath River in northern California and Oregon will start coming down this July.

There has been a controversy related to the supposed increase of sudden deaths among otherwise healthy young people. There has been a faction of people who hear about a death and chalk it up t…

It’s not often that you get the chance to point to Pennsylvania as a case study in comity and consensus building. But with the U.S. House seemingly in permanent residence in Dante’s fifth circ…

Stephen Hawking once warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence will be “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity.”

A stopped clock is right twice a day, which means fellow columnist Chuck Pezeshki is right on time when it comes to the far left’s heavy-handed deployment of political correctness.

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In November 2020, I wrote an opinion piece titled “Destruction of free speech in America” in which I discussed Twitter censoring The New York Post’s bombshell expose on the Hunter Biden laptop story.

The customary “Happy New Year” wish was missing in the Day family Christmas newsletter this past holiday season.

Eventually, my children understood my joke when I told them each morning that, “Daddy is off to bring home the tofu,” (and not the bacon). Later, they’ll thank their vegetarian father for his …

I learn a lot from reading the Daily News. It’s one of the reasons I support local papers in general – you can learn a lot about the local zeitgeist of the community you’re in.

Recent headlines brought the name Wagner Group to the literate world’s attention. Innocuous sounding. Almost like a divisionof AT&T.

Decades ago, Holocaust scholar Hannah Arendt warned: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between f…

About a year ago, a Mike Luckovich cartoon in the Lewiston Tribune caused a furor. It depicted Black school children hiding under their seats as police come in the door. These children have ev…