By Tim Bearly Reader Contributor For countless millennia we homo sapiens have maintained our dominion over nature. We’ve penetrated every corner of the globe, cultivating plants and domesticating animals along the way. We’ve developed...
By Phyllis J. Kardos Reader Contributor When did it become OK for a massive industrial complex to entrench itself in the middle of rural residential properties and position itself to be built perilously close...
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist Perhaps Lao Tzu said it most plainly: “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” It’s that time of the year again....
By Mark Reiner Reader Contributor My wife and I are two of those “back-to-the-land” hippies Ben referenced in one of the earlier “Redoubt” articles. A large portion of us moved back to the land...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff If I’ve learned anything in the past three years of running this newspaper, it’s that I have so much to learn about the news industry. Given that attempts to...
By A.C. Woolnough Reader Columnist Researchers work on some incredible projects as they toil in relative obscurity in their cramped, underfunded labs trying to unlock the mysteries of the brain and neurological diseases like...
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist “You could stop eating the butter mints on your secretary’s desk each day,” says Kenny. I roll my eyes at him. Really? The butter mints? My life will...
By Scarlette Quille Reader Columnist It’s time to say goodbye to 2017. Suffice it to say, 2017 had its low points. That being said, we are looking down the barrel of a new year,...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Most Christians do not know that Muslims hold Mary and Jesus in utmost esteem. The virgin mother of Jesus is mentioned 34 times in the Qur’an, where she is...
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist For a while now, thanks to Dr. Oz and other preachers of panaceas, we’ve been hearing about these incredible wonders of the nutritional world: Superfoods. But what exactly...
