Follow-up to the Tubbs’ long walk
By Ben OlsonReader Staff In the world of journalism, there’s nothing better than a follow-up story. Quite often, our coverage of particular issues doesn’t begin and end with a single article. Instead, there can...
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Following the path of rogue planets
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff The average person on the street thinks about planets as large, spherical rocks orbiting their respective sun — but that isn’t always the case. There are also rogue planets (a.k.a....
A 360 view of ‘America 250’
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff I’m having a hard time with the “America 250” celebrations for a lot of reasons — mostly related to current conditions — but among them is the name, which suggests...
Freddy’s journey into the heart of darkness
By Ben OlsonReader Staff There are billions of soccer fans around the world who live and breathe the sport, but none are as big of a deal in 2026 as Freddy. Posting diligently during...
BuddhAI
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff A robot named Gabi made international headlines in early May when it underwent a public initiation ceremony to become a Buddhist monk. The robot joined the Jogye Order, South Korea’s...
Squirrely memories
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff It’s always welcome when something reminds me of my grandma. It’ll be 14 years next month since I last spoke to her, before she passed away at the age of...
North Idaho nomenclature, redux
By Ben OlsonReader Staff Back in April, I wrote a Back of the Book essay titled “North Idaho nomenclature” that explored the wild and wooly sayings we often hear in our neck of the...
The pleasure of nonsense
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff In old newspapers — as in from the 1880s through to the 1970s — it wasn’t uncommon to see the nonsense phrase “etaoin shrdlu” taking up a line of text...
The Brat PAC
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Our civilization has persisted with the majority of adults operating at the emotional-intellectual level of bratty 13-year-olds for a long time — and even managed to not only survive them...
One party to rule them all
By Ben OlsonReader Staff North Idaho wasn’t always like this. Believe it or not, there was a time in the not-too-distant past when North Idaho was a more politically balanced region. Our district often...
