If you brought your own lunch to school when you were elementary age, you probably remember a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and apples. There may have been some variety, but chances are the variety extended only as far as lunch meat, potato chips, a Twinkie, a few Oreos or a can of…… MORE
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“Information pollution” about “crypto fascism” has caused me to be “agelast”
Language purists don’t like it, but it’s a fact. Language is always evolving. Every year there are new words, and every year some of them are added to the dictionary. Modern life is complex, and sometimes we need new terms to describe new complexities. Some of those come from complicated technical jargon associated with modern…… MORE
Actually lots of famous people die in Idaho
Steve Harwell died Monday morning in Boise of liver failure at the age of 56. He was the lead singer of the pop/rock band Smash Mouth for the first 27 years of their so-far 29-year existence. Harwell was the voice of “All Star”, a song now regarded as the anthem of outcasts. He also sang…… MORE
Walmart is selling “Idaho Potato Malted Milkshake and Fries” ice cream
This isn’t an advertisement for Walmart, although it might sound like one. It’s also not an advertisement for Van Leeuwen Ice Cream or the Idaho Potato Commission. It’s simply some information in which Idahoans might be interested. Let’s start with Van Leeuwen Ice Cream. Fifteen years ago, Van Leeuwen Ice Cream consisted solely of a…… MORE
Albertsons Stadium will light up for Bronco victories
LED lights have a lot of advantages over lights created by good old-fashioned light bulbs. For one, LED lights are able to render colors more accurately. They also produce less glare than light bulbs. They’re more efficient, too, as they reduce your typical energy consumption by 60 to 70 percent. So have you heard where…… MORE
When it comes to polite driving Idaho is #2
Congratulations, Idaho. You don’t have the most confrontational drivers in the United States. And that could be because it’s just not hot enough here. Arizona, on the other hand, is plenty hot. Consequently, or possibly coincidentally, the state with the most confrontational drivers is Arizona. That designation was discovered by the Forbes Advisor website. Forbes…… MORE
BoiseSchools.org has almost all the answers
If there’s anything you don’t know about sending kids back to school in the Boise School District, check the website boiseschools.org and you’ll probably find the answer. Did you know there are late-start elementary schools? Standard elementary schools in Boise start their school day at 8:45am and end at 3:15pm, a six-hour and 30-minute day.…… MORE
Idaho has not always been overwhelmingly Republican
Candidates for president don’t usually spend much time campaigning in Idaho, and that’s understandable. The Republican party has earned all four of Idaho’s electoral votes for 14 presidential elections in a row. The Republican candidate usually gets about twice as many votes as the Democrat, and that’s not expected to change any time soon. But…… MORE
The smartest states are some of the coldest
There are nearly as many reasons for living somewhere as there are people who live there. Maybe your family is there. Maybe you had to move there for a job. Maybe you followed a boyfriend or girlfriend. Maybe you just needed a change from the last place you lived. Or if your work or career…… MORE
Nampa Farmers’ Market third best in the nation
The American Farmland Trust is a non-profit organization that was started, essentially, to do two things. They want to keep farmland farmland, and they want to keep the farmers on that farmland. The organization is made up of a lot of farmers, but it’s also comprised of policy experts, researchers and scientists. Every year the…… MORE
