The importance of choice
By McCalee Cain and McCale Ashenbrener Reader Contributors Editor’s Note: This Op-Ed was written from two perspectives – that of a mother and a daughter. The daughter McCalee was given up for adoption by her...
Category: Opinion
The negative effects of income inequality on mental health
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist In 2011 British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett released the second edition of their book “The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger.” It contained new evidence...
An update on unions in higher education
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist The advance of higher education unions has generally stalled at about 375,000 faculty—21 percent of private schools and 35 percent of public colleges and universities. This significant movement has...
Bonner Dems urge Inslee to stop smelter
Sylvia Humes Reader Contributor With over 20,000 additional trucks and over 15,000 additional train cars moving through our communities every year, we recognize that the collective impacts of the proposed Newport silicon metals smelter...
The Herd: When the whole is less than the sum of its parts
By Tim Bearly Reader Contributor “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” — Friedrich Nietzsche O how I yearn to belong! O how I crave...
You Have Far More in You than You Know
By Joseph Perreault Reader Contributor This past weekend, several of my friends and I decided to take in the beauty of Priest Lake. On Saturday, we planned to leave one car at the Beaver...
Lost in a world of red and green
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist As I read about the fires raging across the western states, I’m reminded of my three years on “hot shot” crews in the late 1960s. One June day on...
Fighting sexual assault crimes in ALL of Idaho
Rep. Melissa Wintrow and Katherine Kerner Reader Contributors Idaho is working on tangible changes to better protect and care for survivors of sexual violence from the moment their attack is reported, all the way through...
Iran vs. North Korea: Obama Got a Better Deal
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist There is unequivocal evidence that they are trying to deceive us. —current U.S. intelligence official on North Korea Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile pledges are about as disposable as toilet...
President Trump sinks to a new low in Helsinki
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Editor’s Note: This is an opinion article written by Reader publisher Ben Olson. When President Donald Trump stood next to Russian President Putin in Helsinki on Monday, he had...
