Mad About Science
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Philadelphia — home of the Phillies, the Liberty Bell and the Fresh Prince. In 1793, it was also the epicenter of one of the worst epidemics America has ever...
Category: Education
SCOTUS places stay on Idaho education funding initiative
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Reclaim Idaho’s education funding ballot initiative effectively met its end July 30, when the Supreme Court of the United States issued a stay on the group’s lawsuit against state...
Summer of our discontent
By Lyndsie Kiebert and Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Both the state and Panhandle Health District continue their upward trend in new cases of the novel coronavirus, as the latter — which covers Idaho’s five...
Board of Ed-approved framework designed to safely reopen public schools
By Shawn Keough Special to the Reader The first day of school for students in the Lake Pend Oreille School District is just about five weeks away. Gov. Brad Little and the Idaho State...
‘We’re all in this together’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Lake Pend Oreille School District is nearing a final plan for how the 2020-2021 academic year will play out amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has risen to...
NEOWISE comet will be in view the next few weeks
By Ben Olson Reader Staff If there’s ever been a time to shut off the noise of the terrestrial world and look up to the heavens, now is it. The comet C/2020 F3 (known...
Sign your name, save our schools
By Luke Mayville, Reclaim Idaho co-founder Special to the Reader For the next 40 days, Idahoans across the state will do something they’ve never done before: Add their electronic signatures to a citizen ballot...
State Board of Ed. releases guidance for school opening
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Idaho State Board of Education released its guidance July 9 for resuming in-person instruction during the 2020-2021 academic year. In a 46-page document, the state’s top schools authority...
Electronic signatures get green light for Reclaim Idaho initiative
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff A federal judge is cracking down on the state of Idaho after Gov. Brad Little and Secretary of State Lawerence Denney chose not to follow a June 23 court...
Mad About Science: Spears
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Aside from the wooden club, so-called “cavemen” are often depicted with wooden spears. While it’s true that the spear is among the most primitive weapons used by humans, spears...
