Teacher pay and property taxes
By Sen. Jim Woodward, R-Sagle Special to the Reader As Americans, we have a long history of placing high value on education. Thomas Jefferson spoke and wrote to great lengths about the importance of...
Category: Opinion
I want my America back
By James Richard Johnson Special to the Reader I want my America back! I grew up in the Midwest in the 1950s and want back the America that stood for what I believed to...
Love is a Dog From Hell
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The headline of this article comes from a book by poet and author Charles Bukowski, who lived a bitter, drunken existence periodically punctuated by moments of brilliance. Love is...
Politicizing education
By Rep. Steve Berch, D-Boise Special to the Reader The House Education Committee voted recently to reject and remove every word of Idaho’s education standards in math, English and science for all K-12 grades....
Human rights for all
By Timothy Braatz Reader Contributor Black History Month was created to celebrate the achievements of people typically excluded from the telling of U.S. history. In that spirit, here are three remarkable historical figures: Isabella...
How to winter
By Ben Olson Reader Staff I was standing in line at the grocery store the other day and heard a woman say, “I just don’t ever remember a winter being this bad in North...
Covenants can be a good thing
By James Richard Johnson Reader Contributor When I consider the ecological advantages to trains versus trucks carrying freight across America, I do not find myself opposing a second railroad bridge across the lake near...
An American dream
By Brenda Hammond Reader Contributor “I have a dream … deeply rooted in the American dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed –...
The year in advance
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The year 2000 has always felt like more of a product than an age: Reality 2000, the Next Generation, or something like that. Maybe it was the onslaught of...
A history of violence
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff On Christmas Day, we woke up to find a pair of posts on our Reader Facebook page that went beyond the typical “fake news” straw man and “liberal, biased...
