By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff A parking lot brawl in May between District 1 Senate candidate Dan Rose, former House 1A primary candidate Spencer Hutchings and Clark Fork resident Michael Franco has resulted in...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It has been a season of dramatic change for the Selkirk Fire service. First came calls for a change in the joint powers agreement leadership in October, followed by...
By Nick Gier Reader Contributor About this time last year, I was traveling in Portugal and visited a number of sites in Lisbon. Some of them were dedicated to Vasco da Gama, the navigator...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist “We possess a spirit that will not be conquered. Should we be attacked, you will find a race of Amazons in America.” —Abigail Adams to John Adams (9/20/1776) For...
By Nick Gier Reader Staff “It is absurd to call a fertilized ovum a baby.” —Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain Only just recently pro-lifers have argued that abortions should be allowed up to the point when the...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist “I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create evil. I the Lord do all these things.” —Isaiah 45:7 (KJV) “God moves and actuates all in...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist “The sword is pulled from the scabbard, it is Not put back unless smeared with blood.” —from a Sri Lankan Buddhist battle song. Over the past 36 years I’ve...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Easter was late this year, and the date changes every year according to an astronomical calculation. After much controversy in the early church, it was finally decided that Easter...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Every year at this time I write a column about Buddhism. The Buddha’s birthday is celebrated on different days depending on the country. In Japan it is always on...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist “I believe in markets — markets that work. Markets that have a cop on the beat and have real rules, and everybody follows them.” —Sen. Elizabeth Warren Just as...
