The archive
Investigations
Every piece here rests on a primary record — a docket, a filing, a contract, a vote. Follow any headline through to the published story and the document behind it.
Eminent domain & property rights
When the taking is legal and still wrong
Who condemns land, under whose authority, and for whose benefit.
Georgia Power Is Seizing Land for AI Data Centers, and Even Republicans Are Furious
A billion-dollar utility project uses government-backed eminent domain against homeowners in
Coweta and Fayette counties.
Idaho Power Is Condemning 293 Miles of Land for a Power Line — and Juries Keep Telling Them to Pay Up
A private utility exercising public condemnation authority across nearly 300 miles of
transmission corridor.
Your HOA Just Sold Your Land to the Highway Department: The Caldwell Property Grab Nobody Saw Coming
Homeowners say their HOA never properly disclosed a property sale to the Idaho Transportation
Department.
Eminent Domain Abuse: How Idaho’s Land Grabs Favor Corporate Giants Over Local Entrepreneurs
Across filings, the public-use justification stretches and the beneficiary is rarely the
public.
The Gravel Pit Next Door: How Idaho Almost Leased Public Land to a Dig Site Without Telling a Single Neighbor
Ten-year lease, 41 acres of endowment land, a $400,000 bid — and complaints that no
neighbor was notified.
Utilities, taxes & public money
Someone always gets the bill
Rate cases, incentive deals, and trusts — read line by line.
The 2026 Idaho PUC Rate Hike: Monopoly Extraction Masquerading as Grid Modernization
What the rate filing asks ratepayers to fund, against what the commission was told it would
buy.
Micron Got a Tax Cut. Meta Got a Tax Cut. You Got the Bill.
How Ada County’s data-center incentive arrangements shift the burden onto property owners
instead of delivering the promised prosperity.
Idaho’s School Benefit Trust Blew Through Its Money — and the Regulator Knew for Months
The trust deteriorated for months before the July discovery. The record shows regulators saw
it coming.
They Said No to $2.6 Billion: How a Pocatello City Council Vote Exposed Idaho’s Broken Approach to Economic Development
One municipal decision, and what it revealed about the state’s development
methodology.
Healthcare & billing
The patient is the leverage
Insurer–hospital standoffs, and the bills nobody agreed to.
Idaho Lawmakers Finally Open an Antitrust Probe Into Health Insurers
What 5,700 stranded patients have to do with it — network negotiations that left thousands
of families with billing uncertainty.
Your ER Bill Is a Pawn: How Blue Cross of Idaho and a Texas Hospital Chain Are Fighting Over Who Gets to Overcharge You
An emergency-room billing dispute that leaves patients holding out-of-network
exposure.
Constitutional rights
Where the limits actually get decided
Second Amendment litigation and the reach of emergency powers.
Ghost Guns Just Won Two Rounds in One Week: The ATF Rule Is Dead and California’s Counterattack Got Tossed
Two court decisions in four days, neither of them the product of a legislative
favor.
The DOJ Just Gave Up on Silencers: How a Quiet Non-Appeal Is Gutting the 1934 Gun Control Act
The Justice Department declined emergency relief, letting the lower-court rulings
stand.
Trump’s DOJ Just Sued California and Virginia Over Gun Bans: Here’s the Playbook for Taking 2A All the Way to the Supreme Court
Federal constitutional challenges against state firearm restrictions, mapped as a
campaign.
Idaho’s Concurrent Bills Raise Alarms Over Power Usurpation and Routine Emergency Declarations
When emergency authority stops being an exception and becomes an operating
procedure.
From the editor
Why we do it this way
Essays on accountability, process, and the cost of nobody being responsible.
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