Use your words (before your genitals)
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Writer When comedian Aziz Ansari became the latest recipient of a sexual misconduct allegation, it took me a few days before I opened the story. Before reading the anonymous...
Category: Opinion
Mike’s Corner: Rain
By Mike Wagoner Reader Contributor I’ve always liked the rain, listening to it dance on a tin roof or watching the steam rise off that roof after it quits and the sun comes out....
On The Lake: ‘Does anyone else think that drilling for silica in the Lake Pend Oreille watershed is a terrible idea?’
By Shannon Williamson Reader Columnist As some of you may have read in the Bee earlier this month, a Montana-based company called Pend Oreille Silica Inc. is looking to do some exploratory drilling on...
Mahatma Gandhi’s profound influence on Martin Luther King
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Christ furnished the spirit and motivation, while Gandhi furnished the method. —Martin Luther King, Jr. I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical...
Emily Articulated: Who wants to play… ‘Dating as a Millennial?’
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist You’re sitting in the hot seat, sweat beading in your palms. The audience is looming over you and the heat of the light beams feels heavy on your face....
NCHOPS: The building blocks of life
By Mike Wagoner Reader Contributor I was thumbing through a biology textbook the other day and stumbled upon the periodic chart. You remember it: the big, scary, multi-colored banner of boxes that hung on...
An Open Letter: To the Bonner County Board of Commissioners in opposition of the Natural Resource Plan
By Kirk Sehlmeyer Reader Contributor Dear Commissioners, My name is Kirk Sehlmeyer, and I live in Bonner County. Thank you for the opportunity to provide comments and express my opposition to the proposed Natural...
It’s time to lay a foundation for affordable housing in Idaho
By Rep. Mat Erpelding Reader Contributor In 1992, the Idaho House of Representatives passed House Bill 756, creating the Idaho Housing Trust Fund. At the time, a responsible legislature realized that creating pathways to...
The healing power of simplicity
By Gabrielle Duebendorfer, ND Reader Columnist Invariably, some time before Christmas it hits me – the feeling of being enfolded in woe. Nothing seems to go right. My brain goes into a million directions...
The view from the bench
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Writer I had a lot of coaches growing up. Between volleyball, basketball, soccer and tennis, I listened to a lot of different advice between the ages of 8 and...
