This is the grave of Cecil Andrus. Born in Hood River, Oregon in 1931, Andrus and his siblings grew up near Junction City, Oregon, just outside of Eugene. This was a very poor family. The farm didn
If you haven’t read this absolute gutting of Elizabeth Bruenig’s ridiculous fake-left reactionary politics, you owe it to yourself to do so. While she beclowns herself with her arguments t
Not that any of this is surprising, but the Pacific Northwest is a real center of contemporary fascism. I almost feel bad for northern Idaho, in that most of the people there are right-wingers but the
On April 29, 1899, miners in the Coeur d’Alene district of northern Idaho blew up a mine, part of the long struggle in those mines by miners for dignity against companies determined to have tota
Oh Idaho…the place where democracy has gone to die. And yet, even for Idaho, this is totally bonkers: The Kootenai County Republican Central Committee has reportedly planned and recruited volunt
Good times in Idaho, where craziness combines with deregulation to create complete health ridiculousness: The state was ablaze with the delta coronavirus variant in early August, when Connie visited h
Historical markers not only vary by state but by region. In New England, they basically don’t exist. We don’t have to bother with such things, we are history (eyeroll, but that’s the
So, Idaho politics are an incredibly toxic shitshow. You have a extremist right-wing governor, Brad Little, who is horrible on COVID and everything else. But the lieutenant governor Janice McGeachin,