First North Carolina, then Colorado, against the wishes of the governor. These states recently passed specific laws against civil unions and the marriage of gay couples. More states may follow. The problem with these actions by a state government is that laws can be ch …
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Paul says in a statement that he's ending his primary campaign. He'll still scrap for delegates, but the long march is over.
Oh, just a mere, nearly $36,000.00 to attend the party! (gulp!)
New images of Amazon's proposed Seattle towers finally show what the three towers may look like and how they'll change the feel of the city's downtown.
Ken Christiansen is a strong suspect in the only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history: the D. B. Cooper case. Could a former Army paratrooper and an employee of the hijacked airline (Northwest Airlines) actually pull it off and escape discovery? Maybe. There's a fair amount …
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Idaho's only black lawmaker said she received a direct mailing from the Ku Klux Klan that has bolstered her resolve to fight prejudice. Childhood memories of a cross burning on her lawn on Boise's north end were rekindled for Rep. Cherie Buckner-Webb, D-Boise, when she opened …
More than forty years and a thousand suspects later, the F.B.I. is still unable to put a lid on the only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history - the case of 'D.B. Cooper'. For those of you unfamiliar with Cooper, he was the guy who hijacked Northwest Airlines Flight 305 - a Boeing …
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Idaho's Republican-controlled Legislature is backing away from a bill requiring women seeking an abortion to get an ultrasound first, capping weeks of Capitol demonstrations, a live Senate ultrasound exhibition on pregnant women and threats against at least one lawmaker.
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Soon after Barack Obama opened his famous campaign website with all of its Web 10.0 functions and groups, this writer joined the site and formed Publishers and Authors for Obama. Seventy-four members and several events later, we raised $24,000 for the 2008 campaig …
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I turned on the television and watched a few minutes of the Idaho Senate debating about how to get rid of rules protecting endangered species, then I flipped channels and watched a few minutes of the Idaho House attacking the Affordable Care Act and women's reproductive rights. …
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