On snobberies
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff In a previous life I was a newly married 27-year-old — with no kids — living in a gorgeous brick-and-hardwood apartment on Ninth Street in Boise. The apartment was...
Category: Opinion
The Lumberjill
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Columnist I spend a lot of time thinking about work-life balance, or, perhaps more accurately, my lack thereof. This is something we’re all supposed to achieve for reasons of health, sanity...
Back to Boise
By Sen. Jim Woodward Special to the Reader Your northern Idaho legislators have gone south for the winter again. Representative Dixon, Representative Scott, and I arrived in Boise this past week for the first...
The 2021 Idaho legislative session through the eyes of county commissioners
By Dan McDonald Special to the Reader Each year, January brings a new legislative session for our Idaho legislators. For county commissioners in Idaho it brings a hope of potentially some good things to...
Emily Articulated
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist Exactly four years ago I was packing up my old silver Subaru, a vehicle I had purchased as soon as I set my heart on moving to the mountains...
What would Martin Luther King say?
By Brenda Hammond Special to the Reader What if Martin Luther King was here today — and asked to appear on one of the day-long news channels to comment on the events of Jan....
More than a few thoughts on America past, present and future
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist I am ranging through the Great American Trail Series, 10 books edited by A.B. Guthrie, Jr. and published in the 1960s. They each have a different author, including Wallace...
Sticking it to the new year
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff New year, new me — right? Everybody loves a good New Year’s resolution. On second thought, everybody loves the idea of a New Year’s resolution. There’s something so hopeful...
Emily Articulated
By Emily Erickson Reader Staff I finished my first book of 2021. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig had been sitting in my audiobook queue since it came out in August, but slid continuously...
A dark day in our nation’s history
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Publisher’s note: This is an opinion article. As Reader staff members were preparing our first edition of 2021 before press time on Jan. 6, pro-Trump extremists in Washington, D.C....
