Reflections of Nature
By Phil Hough
Reader Staff
We launched our canoe into strong head winds and waves. Forward progress was slow, so we camped early, on a muddy shore only five miles …
Category: Opinion
Opinion
Ben Olson is a degenerate
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Contributor
Dear Robo-Caller,
Let’s be clear: Ben Olson is a degenerate, as your recent robocall impugning him and the Sandpoint Reader put it. He’s much less …
Sexually transmitted diseases at all-time high
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
The Centers for Disease Control has just released preliminary data on sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and they show a dramatic increase in infections over four …
The importance of choice
By McCalee Cain and McCale Ashenbrener
Reader Contributors
Editor’s Note: This Op-Ed was written from two perspectives – that of a mother and a daughter. The daughter McCalee was given …
The negative effects of income inequality on mental health
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
In 2011 British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett released the second edition of their book “The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger.” …
An update on unions in higher education
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
The advance of higher education unions has generally stalled at about 375,000 faculty—21 percent of private schools and 35 percent of public colleges and universities. …
Bonner Dems urge Inslee to stop smelter
Sylvia Humes
Reader Contributor
With over 20,000 additional trucks and over 15,000 additional train cars moving through our communities every year, we recognize that the collective impacts of the proposed …
The Herd: When the whole is less than the sum of its parts
By Tim Bearly
Reader Contributor
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
O how I yearn to belong! …
You Have Far More in You than You Know
By Joseph Perreault
Reader Contributor
This past weekend, several of my friends and I decided to take in the beauty of Priest Lake. On Saturday, we planned to leave one …
Letters
- Schools Deserve Support… Dear Editor, I am really weary of Dan and Kathy Rose alleging our school administrators are committing fraud by asking the voters to approve a school levy. The bottom line is that schools cost money to operate, and the state of Idaho does not adequately fund our schools. Do we want ...
- Take Scotchman’s Off the Auction Block…… Dear Editor, Now that a Scotchman Peaks Wilderness Bill has been introduced in Congress, the question is raised again, “How will this affect our community?” Studies have reliably shown an economic benefit to communities located near designated wilderness. Does this mean large numbers of tourists from all over the world will ...
- Support the Environment… Dear Editor, I indubitably support public lands. I indubitably support wilderness. I indubitably support Greenprint. I indubitably support the Scotchman Peaks Wilderness. I grew up in Texas where there is no public land to speak of and developers have cart blanche to make a piecemeal out of the environment, and I tell ...
- For Our Children… Dear Editor, I am the parent of a kindergarten student at Northside Elementary. In five years my youngest will also be there and I will have two kids in the Lake Pend Oreille school district. I am very committed to doing all I can to help my children and their schools ...
- Schools Need Our Support… Dear Editor, My ability to write this letter and thoughtfully read this paper is due, in large part, to the efforts of public school teachers. Not able to afford private schools, I am a public school graduate. I imagine most adults my age (retired, fixed income) have had jobs and careers ...
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