It’s not the years in your life…
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Because it’s Latin, the phrase annus horribilis sounds ancient, but it’s not. In scattered use beginning in the 1980s, it didn’t come to prominence until Queen Elizabeth II used...
Category: Opinion
The year in re- and preview
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Yeesh. Where to begin? First of all, we’re quite aware that making predictions even in less tumultuous times is a fool’s practice. Yet, undaunted, that’s what we did last...
Legislative preview:
By Rep. Sage Dixon, R-Ponderay Special to the Reader With the advent of COVID-19 the standard thought process that most legislators use when preparing legislation was interrupted by the sudden realization that there were...
Legislative preview:
By Sen. Jim Woodward, R-Sagle Special to the Reader The New Year is nearly upon us, which brings with it another legislative session here in Idaho. The Legislature will convene on Monday, Jan. 11,...
2020 was one hell of a year; here are some good things that happened
By Ben Olson Reader Staff During “normal” times, the last page of the calendar usually brings wistful looks back at the year that has passed and hopeful views of the year ahead. Let’s face...
Coming out for the holidays
Sam Luikens Reader Contributor The holiday season is usually a time when many families gather together, some turning to the familiar and newly-minted traditions that offer comfort in the dark season. However it looks,...
Use Idaho’s excess revenues to save lives, not more money
By Sen. Melissa Witntrow, D-Boise Special to the Reader What if you were hanging on the edge of a cliff and your friend leaned down and started rapping hard on your fingers, at the...
The caduceus
By Kathleen Huntley Reader Contributor When he was barely 18, and unable to vote in this country, my late husband had a caduceus tattooed on his upper right arm. He turned 18 on a...
Emily Articulated
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist Well, it’s official. The year of curveball after curveball, of perpetually adapting to the unknown, and during which the unprecedented steadily became precedent, is coming to a close. If...
The bow box
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Like so many naive and ever-so-slightly conceited teenage girls growing up in the 2000s, I had a blog. It was a free WordPress domain with an obscenely long URL...
