Women shouldn’t be second-class citizens
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I felt like a second-class citizen when the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion last summer. After a…
Idaho State Capitol, Wikimedia commons
MoreWill salmon finally win this year?
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For the last 35 years I’ve been covering what we call the “salmon wars” in the Pacific Northwest, writing so…
MorePlenty of food, but not for all farmworkers 
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On a summer morning in southern Idaho, the day breaks early, before 6 a.m. The air is stale, never fully…
Farm workers harvesting yellow bell peppers near Gilroy, California.
MoreCOVID-19 PANDEMIC ILLUSTRATES IDAHO’S SPLIT PERSONALITY
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On the one hand there’s the spirit of cooperation and belief that government can help, on the other there’s outright contempt for anything governmental.
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