Emily Articulated
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist I’ve always considered myself an equal mix of introvert and extrovert — feeling both comfortable and energized by social interactions, while needing adequate alone time to recharge after a...
Category: Opinion
It’s time for a property tax freeze
By Mike Gearlds Reader Contributor For reasons best explained by them, Idaho legislators again failed to pass property tax relief or reform measures in the past session. They roused from their torpor just long...
The Baloney Detective: Propaganda techniques
By Tim Bearly Reader Contributor Propaganda, with its myriad colors and shapes, is a ubiquitous and unrelenting force. Whether you’re watching TV, listening to the radio, reading a magazine or mindlessly scrolling on social...
An ode to skunk cabbage
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Childhoods are defined by a range of smells, both good and bad. Fresh laundry. School lunches. Dad’s cologne. Locker rooms. Being a child of North Idaho, my upbringing also...
Happy camper
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Imagine a place where the coronavirus doesn’t really exist. Where the petty squabbling on social media is just a silly memory. Where there are no armed protesters or conspiracy...
The Frog, Fear and the Happiest People
By Chris White Reader Contributor Like an injected dye highlighting cancer in our body, this pandemic has revealed failures in our country— and ourselves. Two months ago, many were watching the darkening clouds of...
Failure to communicate:
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Working with the media is an integral part of being an elected official. At least it used to be. Now, with social media serving as an unchecked medium through...
Emily Articulated: A column by and about Millennials
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist Act One, Scene One: The Bedroom, Sandpoint, Idaho. Dawn. Emily, a late-20s working-from-home writer, is sleeping in bed. She has wrestled all of the covers to her side of...
A few thoughts on the blessings of retirement
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist The online music retail industry is seeing a surge in sales, thanks in large part to the abundance of free time many are experiencing amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. ...
The Late Night Buddhist
By Scott Taylor Reader Columnist When I was teaching I used to have a few quotes posted around my classroom, including the title of this piece. I found it in a collection of “Zen...
