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Pause for prevention

This week, Sept. 9-15, is National Suicide Prevention Week, and with suicide as the third leading cause of death, accounting for 14.4 percent of all deaths for 15 to 24-year-olds, […]

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Wilderness access a privilege

Brian Mahoney | UI Operations Supervisor – Campus Recreation Hunting season is right around the corner and rifle hunters will swarm to the woods in search of areas to sight in […]

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Fitting in fitness

The first couple weeks of the semester are in the books, and routines are beginning to settle into place. Creating good healthy habits, setting priorities and figuring out how it […]

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Mail Box

Schizophrenic society Dear Editor: In response to Brian Marceau’s column on patterns in American gun violence…

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Mail Box

Feeding program fiasco Dear Editor: Perhaps the federal Farm Bill could have avoided that nasty “partisan rut” if the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture had stuck to its knittin’ instead of […]

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Farm Bill stuck in partisan rut

Frank Priestley | Idaho Farm Bureau President The U.S. Congress recently broke for its annual August recess without completing work on a new five-year farm bill. Although the Senate and the House […]