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When Chud Wendle – the combative leader of a group of property owners who regularly criticizes City Council members over crime and homelessness – wanted a special report from the police department about crimes committed by transients, he didn’t file a public records request. → Read More
At some point in the last several months, one of our local social media wags began referring to Camp Hope as Camp Brown. → Read More
More than seven years ago, Boise attorney Kirt Naylor signed off on a rallying cry to defend Idaho’s children. → Read More
They practice for it now, our children, as they practice for a volleyball game or the school play or the holiday concert. → Read More
It was hard – in the aftermath of the Mar-a-Lago supper between the loathsome Nick Fuentes and the loathsome Donald Trump – not to think about the mostly forgotten (though also loathsome) James Allsup. → Read More
One of the great benefits of candidate debates is not that they unearth unknown positions or opinions, but that they give us a chance to see the temperament and demeanor of candidates under pressure, to see how they act when challenged, to see how they think, or don’t, on their feet. → Read More
About a month ago, a federal housing official sent a letter to Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward, all but begging her to develop a plan to spend $6 million in federal funds meant to address affordable housing and homelessness. → Read More
Maybe the Mead School Board should adopt a policy against plagiarism in proposed policies. → Read More
Winter is coming. → Read More
Last fall, we went to a great football game in Pullman. → Read More
At least WSU was pushing. → Read More
We invested in it. → Read More
An audit of attitudes about race among deputies in the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office crashed and burned last year, because so few deputies bothered to respond that auditors could not accurately draw conclusions. → Read More
If you’re familiar with the FAFSA – the federal form to apply for financial aid for college – then this may not surprise you. → Read More
There is a lot of code words in political discourse – words that mean something other than, or something well beyond, what they seem to mean. → Read More
Broadly speaking, Idaho rejected the wingnut right in Tuesday’s major races. → Read More
As the City Council looks at soaring overtime costs in the fire department, some council members want to rehire firefighters who chose to leave their extraordinarily well-paid jobs rather than get vaccinated against COVID-19. → Read More
In the 1990s, I lived in beautiful Bozeman, where a woman’s access to an abortion – a supposedly settled constitutional right – was nevertheless precarious. → Read More
On a pleasant Saturday in early March, a group of seven people headed to a shooting range at Fishtrap Lake. → Read More
After 18 years, it was not the way Christie Wood imagined departing from the North Idaho College Board of Trustees. → Read More