Hayden City Council voted not to renew its enhanced law-enforcement contract with the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office. The city can refuse dedicated patrol. What it cannot do is treat marked cars, faster response, and a tended street as a right after the check stops. Presence is a purchase. The unpaid bill moves onto traffic, property crime, home values, and the extra minute an ambulance waits.
Canada is an important American trading partner, but important doesn’t mean irreplaceable. America has the resources, technology, manufacturing capacity and economic strength to adapt when trade relationships change. Maybe we’d negotiate better agreements if we stopped acting as though America can’t survive without countries that depend heavily on access to our market.
The password problem is not that you are careless. Official advice taught ordinary people to invent ugly unique strings, change them every 90 days, and never write them down. Most of us reused one good login instead. What works now: a password manager, passkeys where the site allows them, email as the master key, and a recovery plan the person who loves you can use. Four moves. Then the coffee.
Idaho’s minute-of-silence law already gives parents responsibility for guiding their children and teachers authority to manage their classrooms. Why, then, does every ordinary challenge seem to require another policy from Boise? This editorial examines how calls for helpful government guidance can gradually move everyday decisions away from families and toward the state.
You tell someone you are starting a website at fifty-eight and they do the face. Hobby? Midlife crisis with a domain name? I am not retired and I am not selling a course. I built other people’s addresses for years. This one is mine — food, tech, North Idaho, veterans, the local fight, and a room that does not vanish when a platform changes the rules. Fifty-eight is not the age a man goes quiet.
If 50 is really middle age, the math suggests men should expect to live to 100. The statistics tell a different story. Here is why “middle age” is less about reaching the halfway point and more about entering a stage when time, priorities and the road ahead begin to look very different.
I’m a BBQ purist, so an electric smoker wasn’t an easy sell. Then I bought the Ninja Woodfire Grill. After smoking brisket, pork butt and country-style ribs—and cooking chicken thighs in half the time—I’m impressed. Real wood smoke, precise temperature control, a built-in probe and almost no babysitting have made this little grill my new backyard favorite.
Twenty-five years later, the record is still simple: they came for us and they killed civilians. Americans born here still call 9/11 an inside job. I can fight the enemy who says Death to America. I do not know how to face the neighbor who says it in softer words. Four planes were hijacked. Since then I have watched a slower hijacking of the story a country tells about itself. Ask who benefits.
Social media was supposed to connect us, but manufactured outrage, artificial social proof and algorithms can turn real people into unintended participants in manipulation. What if we redesigned social media around human relationships, better publishing tools, earned reputation and local discovery—and gave people more control over the experience?
In 2016, my wife and I left the Portland area and headed for North Idaho. Politics and safety were certainly part of the decision, but we were also looking for a different pace of life and a stronger sense of community. Ten years later, the scenery is still beautiful, but it’s the people, relationships and sense of belonging that turned North Idaho from the place we moved to into home.
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