Living Life: Help a Foster Child, Become a CASA
By Dianne Smith Reader Columnist Foster children experience a journey like no other. They are often placed in the homes of strangers where they are left to figure out all the unwritten rules and...
Category: Opinion
Moscow pastor agrees with Trump on Charlottesville tragedy
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist There has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world. —Douglas Wilson, Pastor of Moscow’s Christ Church...
“Deaths of Despair” Reveals America’s Troubled Soul A “White Death” Takes the Lives of 45-54 Year-Olds
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist The workman is not in harmony with his social position if he is not convinced that he has his deserts. —Emile Durkheim These people kill themselves slowly with alcohol...
My summer at the Reader
By McCalee Cain Reader Intern / Cedar Post Editor in Chief This summer at the Reader, I learned many technical lessons — the proper AP formatting of numbers and dates, the ins and outs of...
Single in Sandpoint: 8 Signs The End is Near (the end of summer, that is)
By Scarlette Quille Reader Columnist There are some of you who may be new to the area. You may be under the notion that the passing of seasons is typically accompanied by a change...
To Heather Scott: (who called me a radical and told me never to phone her again)
By Rachel Castor Reader Contributor If calling my representative to ask her not to vote on an anti-immigration bill makes me a radical… If calling my representative to ask her for a statement to...
Surviving the mother of all overscheduled weekends … and watering trees
By Sandy Compton Reader Contributor Sandpoint, the nominal capitol of the vague state of Montaho, was VERY busy last weekend. Hundreds of folks from as far away as Athol — heck, maybe even Spokane...
Why I’m tired of my president whining and badmouthing America
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Right off the bat, I’ll say that I have never been a fan of Donald Trump. I never watched his TV show, I never stayed at his hotels. What’s...
Classic liberalism: What your college professor didn’t teach you
By Christian Rose Reader Contributor The American left is becoming increasingly insufferable. Eight years of Barack Obama’s stewardship of the fundamental progressive reshaping of our political landscape, cultural identity, and central-planning-style-economics have made the...
Single in Sandpoint: The rise of a queen
By Scarlette Quille Reader Columnist One of the many creatures residing in my home is a cat. Her name is Maple. She is an orange ball of hell fury. She was about three or...
