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3 days ago | 
idahostatesman.com | Scott McIntosh
Pope Francis was a “pope to the peripheries.”“He was a pope to people who are poor, to the outcast, especially to migrants and refugees,” Gene Fadness, deacon at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Boise and retired communications director for the Diocese of Boise, told me in a phone interview.
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3 days ago | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Scott McIntosh
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3 days ago | 
arcamax.com | Scott McIntosh
President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News reminded me of a famous legal case that I teach my journalism students each semester at Boise State University. It’s known as the Zenger trial. The case was in 1735, nearly 300 years ago, before the United States was even a country. Then-New York Gov. William Cosby charged the New-York Weekly Journal printer John Peter Zenger with “seditious libel” because the newspaper was critical of Cosby, accusing him of tyranny and violating the people’s rights.
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1 week ago | 
miamiherald.com | Scott McIntosh
President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News reminded me of a famous legal case that I teach my journalism students each semester at Boise State University. It’s known as the Zenger trial. The case was in 1735, nearly 300 years ago, before the United States was even a country. Then-New York Gov. William Cosby charged the New-York Weekly Journal printer John Peter Zenger with “seditious libel” because the newspaper was critical of Cosby, accusing him of tyranny and violating the people’s rights.
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1 week ago | 
idahostatesman.com | Scott McIntosh
President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News reminded me of a famous legal case that I teach my journalism students each semester at Boise State University. It’s known as the Zenger trial. The case was in 1735, nearly 300 years ago, before the United States was even a country. Then-New York Gov. William Cosby charged the New-York Weekly Journal printer John Peter Zenger with “seditious libel” because the newspaper was critical of Cosby, accusing him of tyranny and violating the people’s rights.
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1 week ago | 
idahostatesman.com | Scott McIntosh
Coree Carver’s business exporting mangoes from Cambodia has faced more than its fair share of challenges over the past several years: regulatory hurdles, the COVID pandemic, the closing of the border in China, the Russia invasion of Ukraine and even a car accident that caused traumatic brain injury. But the latest blow — a 49% tariff on goods from Cambodia imposed by President Donald Trump — could prove to be the death knell for what’s been a labor of love for the Boise businesswoman.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Scott McIntosh
Coree Carver’s business exporting mangoes from Cambodia has faced more than its fair share of challenges over the past several years: regulatory hurdles, the COVID pandemic, the closing of the border in China, the Russia invasion of Ukraine and even a car accident that caused traumatic brain injury. But the latest blow — a 49% tariff on goods from Cambodia imposed by President Donald Trump — could prove to be the death knell for what’s been a labor of love for the Boise businesswoman.
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2 weeks ago | 
idahostatesman.com | Scott McIntosh
I really hate to pile on, but the city of Boise needs to go back to the drawing board with its new city flag designs — or better yet, just scrap them altogether. At the risk of offending the artists who created the designs, they are ugly. And how is it that the city received ideas from 3,000 residents and designs from 140 local artists, yet all four of the final designs ended up looking so similar?
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2 weeks ago | 
idahostatesman.com | Scott McIntosh
Friday’s sentencing in the brutal prison beating death of Milo Warnock brings a degree of closure to his family. But their fight isn’t over. “As far as a quest to see change, I think that’s going to be ongoing for the rest of our lives,” Kathy Warnock, Milo’s mom, told me after the sentencing of Milo’s killer, James M. Johnson. The change they’d like to see is in the prison system. “Our rage is more against the state and the situation,” Mike Warnock, Milo’s dad, told me after the sentencing.
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3 weeks ago | 
idahostatesman.com | Scott McIntosh
Former Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne announced Monday that he has recently been diagnosed with colon cancer and that he will begin chemotherapy immediately. It’s a good opportunity to talk about colon cancer, a subject that most people feel uncomfortable discussing. I’ve become a bit of an evangelist on the topic, since I was diagnosed with colon cancer 21 years ago, when I was just 33 years old. I’m a living testament to early testing and detection.
