Love Lives Here
By Jim Healey Reader Contributor Hate-filled fliers left in citizens’ driveways here in Bonner County. A peace flag ripped down from a local’s front porch here in Bonner County. Racist emails from dailystormer.com sent...
Category: Opinion
Idaho sewage treatment plants are not making the grade
By Justin Hayes Reader Contributor When you flush your toilet, the contents don’t magically disappear. Sewage gets cleaned at a sewage treatment plant operated by your city and then discharged to your local river....
Is your heart a black hole?
By Marjolein Groot Nibbelink Reader Contributor A solitary friend and I spent a week in a cabin in Covelo, Calif., speaking of astrophysics while I was cross referencing Bill Bryson’s “A Short History Of...
Battle Call
By Michael Jacobson Reader Contributor In March 1991 unsettling photos of C-130 military cargo planes laden with flag draped coffins filled the news media. We were in Afghanistan. Prior to Desert Storm only active...
Random Digital Madness: Augmented Reality — why you will wonder how you lived without it
By Bill Harp Reader Columnist Why AR? So, if augmented reality (AR) is not on your technology radar, I would like to change that. A few months ago, one of the county staff asked...
The most polluted site in Sandpoint and what it’s doing to our water
By Shannon Williamson Reader Columnist You know that piece of land on Boyer that sits between the Lake Pend Oreille High School and the railroad tracks? Across from Super One? You probably drive by...
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...
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...
