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Nov 11, 2024 | 
idahocapitalsun.com | Marc Johnson
by Marc C. Johnson, Idaho Capital Sun November 11, 2024 Private First Class Clarke E. Krivanec went missing in action on Dec. 20, 1944, four days into the bloodbath that became the Battle of the Bulge. Krivanec was 21 years old, an infantryman in 112th Regiment of the 28th Division, part of Gen. George Patton’s Third American Army. Private Krivanec was from Rupert, Idaho, a graduate of Rupert High School. Clarke Krivanec never came home from Europe. Never married.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
idahocapitalsun.com | Marc Johnson
Idaho – like the rest of the country – is drowning in political money. The corrupting influence of all that cash, most of it untraceable as to its origin, is hiding in plan sight.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Marc Johnson
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
idahocapitalsun.com | Marc Johnson
In one way this is a tragic story of a brave and talented fellow who that devil cancer took way too soon. Being diagnosed with glioblastoma, the aggressive brain cancer that claimed, among others, Arizona Sen. John McCain, is a death sentence. End of story. Always a tragic outcome. But in another way this is not really a sad story. Quite the contrary. It’s a story of uplifting decency, a story of living your life to make the world better for others.
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Jan 13, 2024 | 
bozemandailychronicle.com | Marc Johnson
On Sunday night, March 7, 1965, the ABC Sunday Night Movie was interrupted for a breaking news bulletin from Selma, Alabama, a city of about 28,000 souls fifty miles west of the state capitol of Montgomery. It’s a safe bet that most Americans watching the film “Judgment at Nuremberg” — a movie about Nazi war crime trials after World War II — had never heard of Selma in Dallas County, Alabama.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Tom Wheeler |Bob Kustra |Azeem Azhar |Marc Johnson
On today’s program, former FCC chairman Tom Wheeler joins us to talk about his new book, Techlash: Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age? Praised by Ken Burns as one of the foremost “explainers” of technology and its effect throughout history, Tom Wheeler turns his gaze to the public impact of entrepreneurial innovation.
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Jan 6, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Azeem Azhar |Bob Kustra |Marc Johnson
Note: This is an encore episode of Reader's Corner. The interview originally aired in April 2022. Our guest today believes we are living in “the first exponential age.” With tech innovations being created at light speed and technology we barely understand remaking our homes and workplaces, we are being pushed into to a world that is getting too fast for us to manage it.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Marc Johnson
Despite some cold snaps, this winter season has been unusually warm for Idaho. This year’s El Niño weather pattern might signal an upcoming drought. So far this season, snowfall in Idaho’s mountains has been about half what it was last year. “That's a warning sign that Idaho and much of the Pacific Northwest may be seeing worsening drought conditions,” said Warning Coordination Meteorologist Jay Breidenbach from the National Weather Service in Boise.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Diba Mohtasham |Marc Johnson
A major winter storm is headed for the East Coast this weekend, so people will likely want to dress themselves — and their families — to protect against the harsh elements. But before a car ride, parents should think twice about bundling up their little ones. For children, a bulky coat and a car seat can be a dangerous pairing.
According to Emily A.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Michel Martin |Marc Johnson
A Hamas leader is killed in an explosion in Beirut. Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigns. Jury selection has begun in a civil trial in New York that could transform the NRA. Copyright 2024 NPR
