Lessons from an elk hunter
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff •Your gas tank should always be at least half full •Never take a phone call during dinner •Pack your rifle with the scope tucked under your armpit These are...
Category: Opinion
The day Confucius went to the United Nations
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist The Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,” and that they have “the right to life, liberty...
Reflections of Nature
By Phil Hough Reader Staff We launched our canoe into strong head winds and waves. Forward progress was slow, so we camped early, on a muddy shore only five miles from the start. Smoke...
Ben Olson is a degenerate
By Zach Hagadone Reader Contributor Dear Robo-Caller, Let’s be clear: Ben Olson is a degenerate, as your recent robocall impugning him and the Sandpoint Reader put it. He’s much less a degenerate now than...
Sexually transmitted diseases at all-time high
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist The Centers for Disease Control has just released preliminary data on sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and they show a dramatic increase in infections over four years. In 2017, there...
The negative effects of income inequality on mental health
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist The world’s richest large country, the city on a hill, seems to be coming apart. —The Economist(6/14/18) In 2011 British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett released the second...
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...
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...
