My weekly column in the Lewiston, Idaho Tribune ———- On June 9, 1979 Molly Ivins, the brilliant and still widely mourned reporter – she...

My weekly column from the Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune ———— Idaho’s Governor-Elect Brad Little has some big decisions to make. In the next...

My weekly column from the Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune… ————- A few takeaways from the midterms. The State of the Union – Divided: The red...

My latest column for the Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune on Idaho politics… ———- It is now clear that the campaign of Idaho Democratic...

My weekly column in the Lewiston, Idaho Tribune. ———- Thirty years ago this month then-Idaho Governor Cecil D. Andrus willfully and with...

My Lewiston Tribune column of October 19, 2018 ————- Paulette Jordan, the Democratic candidate for governor of Idaho, has created in a...

My column this week in the Lewiston Tribune… ———– This year’s race for Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction will test one of my...

Breaking: Three top aides to Idaho gubernatorial candidate Paulette Jordan resigned late Friday,  according to published reports. The...

Former Idaho Governor and Secretary of the Interior Cecil D. Andrus died on August 24, 2017 in Boise. He was a day short of his 86th...

The Lewiston Tribune this week published my remembrance of Mike Mitchell a long-time Idaho legislator and one-time chief of staff to...

“I call him a socialist-slash-communist because that’s what he is.” – Donald Trump on Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders – – – – Conventional...

It would be easy – even inevitable – given the dysfunctional state of American politics to just say the heck with it – nothing works any...

“Imagine a NASCAR driver mentally preparing for a race knowing one of the drivers will be drunk. That’s what prepping for this debate is...

Years ago I enjoyed a delightful series of conversations with John Corlett, a true old-school newspaper reporter in Idaho who could...

The #indiana has, at least for a few more days, reshaped and shuffled the pre-primary primary season for the Republican Party and I’m...

He was one of the most polarizing political figures of the last half-century in Idaho, a union and gay rights basher who was part of the...

“Study history, study history,” Winston Churchill said long ago . “In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.” I was reminded of...

One of the most difficult things to do in politics – perhaps the most difficult – is to quit. When do you cut-and-walk-away from a There...

The New York Times reported recently on a little noted aspect of Barack Obama’s legacy that will have lasting impact for the country. In...

It would be difficult to overstate the importance to Idaho of the various political and judicial decisions that will be made over the...