The closed Idaho primary election was the big loser yesterday. Most Idahoans – maybe close to 80% of the eligible voters – voted with...

Harry Truman famously said, “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.” I’ll offer the Johnson Corollary to Truman’s great one...

More than 20 years ago I was on the way home from a trip to Washington, D.C. with Clancy Standridge, who was for many years the...

Politicians are defined by their actions, but also by what they fail to do. I’m guessing that at least some of the Idaho State Senators...

Loyal readers at this spot know that I occasionally rage against the dying of the light of local journalism. The days of independent,...

When Idaho’s “citizen” reapportionment panel deadlocked recently everyone in the state looked to the Big Man on the second floor of the...

It is often said in politics that “what goes around comes around.” This is such a story. In the 1940’s and 1950’s Arthur Dean was a...

Edward R. Murrow famously said of Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy that he had not created the fear of Communism that swept the nation...

I went looking for a photo of Carl Burke, the great Idaho attorney and the only campaign manager Frank Church ever had, and, of course,...

Idaho’s Battle Over Education Reform There was never a real chance that supporters of a recall of Idaho’s Superintendent of Public...

Commie Bashing Baseball Talent Scout The passing of the great Harmon Killebrew recently caused a few Idaho political, history and...

New statewide opinion research finds Idahoans distinctly unsure that the educational reform efforts that dominated the state legislative...

According to a new statewide survey of Idaho voters, the state now effectively has three political factions – very economically and...

Expelled from Politics On Tuesday, the Idaho House approved the most political piece of State Superintendent Tom Luna’s “education...

Idaho’s most conservative Republicans got what they long wanted yesterday with the decision by U.S. District Judge Lynn Winmill throwing...

Lots of reaction and remembering, very appropriately, to the weekend passing of one of Idaho’s political icons Sen. Jim McClure. Most of...

History will record that Sen. Jim McClure, who died Saturday at the age of 86, was one of the most significant politicians in Idaho’s...

They celebrated Jefferson Davis’s inauguration yesterday in Montgomery, Alabama. Actually, it was a day late. One hundred fifty years ago...

In 1832 when the always frisky state of South Carolina objected to tariff legislation passed by the Congress and signed by President...

The Utah state budget is far from flush. The Salt Lake Tribune laments, as legislators do, a $313 million “structural deficit” in Utah....