There is some modestly good economic news this morning in contrast to this day 80 years ago when crowds gathered on Wall Street in New...

Within the stark building that houses the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa – perhaps the most anti-war war museum I’ve ever visited – is a...

A fascinating series of stories in the venerable Arizona Daily Star, the Tucson paper, reporting on a massive statewide public opinion...

Years ago when Idaho’s economy was built around timber, mining and agriculture, the state tended to come late to a recession and leave...

As I noted in this space a while back, Tim Egan’s new book – The Big Burn – is a winner both as western (especially Idaho) history and as...

The Republican candidate for governor in New Jersey is a big guy. Some might even say he’s, well, chunky. His opponent is alleging that...

The cartoon from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch kinda says it all. Someday , I just know (if I live long enough), I’ll be able to say I was...

I confess. I was pulling for the Red Sox to advance in the American League playoffs. Alas, as usual for me, baseball in October is about...

I confess. I was pulling for the Red Sox to advance in the American League playoffs. Alas, as usual for me, baseball in October is about...

Boise’s musical gift to the world, jazz singer and songwriter Curtis Stigers, continues to rack up accolades as his lengthy tour in...

Mark this post down as “shameless self promotion.” On October 15th at 7 pm, I’ll be at the marvelous new Boise neighborhood library at...

The great American writer John Updike never won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He should have. When Updike came to Idaho a few years...

At the very heart of American government, inside the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, stand 100 statues of famous and not-so-famous...

I had the pleasure of introducing Dan Kemmis, the former mayor of Missoula, Montana and speaker of that state’s House of Representatives,...

Kim Barnes, the supremely gifted writer who teaches at the University of Idaho in Moscow, has joined rare company indeed – and she...

Max Baucus (right), the current chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, is on the verge of making history by writing (and...

Max Baucus (right), the current chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, is on the verge of making history by writing (and...

The bicentennial of the birth of the 16th President of the United States has found Holzer lecturing, often several times a week, from...

Forrest Church, who died last week at 61, could, with his writings and sermons, be both strikingly eloquent and stunningly insightful. ...

Candidate Obama got into one of those pointless (but totally consuming, made for the media) debates with Hillary Clinton last year when...