Logan Ramsey News Editor Idaho State University sent out an alert notification on Feb. 19 warning the student body of a “shooting” shortly after Pocatello police responded to the call in the area of South 5th Avenue and East Humbolt Street, right across from the campus. The first call reported […]
Logan Ramsey News Editor Now that President Trump has been acquitted, we have more questions than answers about what will happen to our country. Even if he had been convicted, we’d still have questions, but at least we’d know we wouldn’t be stuck with him for another four years. I’ve […]
Logan Ramsey News Editor While many college students worry about finding a job after college, Ellen Jetland-Okelberry was worried about being offered one too early. It was October, and Jetland-Okelberry received a message through LinkedIn informing her of a job at Amazon with the Unmanned Aerial Systems Test Flight Team. […]
Logan Ramsey News Editor The Idaho State University Counseling Center used to only have “one-shot topic trainings” on different issues of mental health, but that all changed when they implemented RESPOND. RESPOND training came to be in Fall 2019 and it’s a seven-hour workshop taught by Rick Pongratz, Director of […]
Logan Ramsey News Editor The Idaho Museum of Natural History has brought a part of the unseen world around us to life with its new exhibit called Out of the Shadows. The exhibit opened on Jan. 18 and it’s too early to report numbers, but Amber Tews, Collections Manager, observed […]
Logan Ramsey News Editor If you don’t know what the acronym ASISU stands for, you’re not alone. The President and Senators from the Associated Students of Idaho State University didn’t always know what it stood for either. When Chris Nartker, Senator for the College of Pharmacy, first heard about ASISU, […]
Logan Ramsey News Editor Back in October, I wrote a column where I said that it was too soon to talk about removing President Trump from office because we weren’t in that stage of the impeachment process yet. That was when Adam Schiff was still conducting closed-door testimonies in the […]
Logan Ramsey Editor-in-Chief It was 1969, and Alberto Velez had just landed in Newark Airport with nothing but his suitcase and a toolbox. Many people might rest after an 11-something hour flight, but Velez hit the pavement instead. He began approaching every business he could find in Union City, New […]
Logan Ramsey Editor-in-Chief Local: The FBI’s new facilities have been officially completed The FBI and its partners at the Department of Justice (DOJ) participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Nov. 18 for a new data center at the FBI’s facility in Pocatello, Idaho. The new data center will optimize infrastructure, […]
Logan Ramsey Editor-in-Chief Local: Three candidates are running for Pocatello City Council seat No. 2 Pocatello resident Claudia Ortega, Lance Kolbet, a former chairman of the county’s Republican party, and artist Colton Peterson are running for City Council seat No. 2. Kolbet said wages and benefits represent the city’s major […]
Disclaimer: This column contains explicit language. Reader discretion advised. Logan Ramsey Editor-in-Chief With news unfolding every day on the impeachment inquiry into Trump’s presidency, it’s dangerous to write about; with the threat of breaking news making my point irrelevant. I’m writing this at the same time as House Republicans are […]
Logan Ramsey Editor-in-Chief In the late 2000s, Dane Simmons had all his eggs in one basket. “I was a leading performer, and in the midst of one phone call, I could lose everything,” Dane said. At the time, Dane was working at Apria Healthcare, and he didn’t necessarily feel like […]
Local: The city is amending water facilities plans to accommodate for Northgate Pocatello’s engineering staff is finalizing long-term amendments to the city’s drinking water and wastewater facilities plans, as directed to evaluate impacts of Northgate, a multi-use project under construction in northeast Pocatello planned to eventually include thousands of homes […]
Local: NeighborWorks is looking to purchase the long-vacant Bonneville Elementary School A building that was integral in molding the minds of hundreds of children for decades and has been an eyesore in the center of a neighborhood for more than 16 years could soon become the future home for 18 […]
Logan Ramsey Editor-in-Chief When we talk about the student debt crisis, we often talk about the underhanded ways loan borrowers make paying our loans harder than necessary after college, but there’s a facet of the crisis that goes largely unaddressed. The students who are attending college now and are the […]