Living Life: Helping children in troubled times
By Dianne Smith Reader Columnist As grownups, we, too, have been traumatized by the recent events in the world, and with the recent school shooting in Spokane it hit really close to home. We...
Category: Opinion
The Toad Highway and Troy Mine Site
By Kathleen Clayton Reader Contributor They’re green or brown and covered by warts. They have bulging eyes with horizontal slits. And heck, they don’t even hop. Even so, the western toad gets a highway...
The flag, football and the destruction of American culture
By Christian Rose Reader Contributor For much of my life I never felt particularly obligated nor overly inclined to stand and salute the flag during the national anthem. I did it, of course, but...
Working lands for tomorrow
By Eric Grace Reader Contributor After 50 years of carefully tending the land with her late husband, Barney, Bonner County resident Lois Blasko has established a conservation easement over her scenic 350-acre farmstead. While...
Wilderness and Wildlife Management
By Al Van Vooren Reader Contributor In the exchange of letters and public debate about the proposed Scotchman’s Peak Wilderness it has been asserted that the ability to “manage wildlife” would be lost with...
Our sanctuary cities have a sacred history
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Our Sanctuary Cities have a Sacred History By Nick Gier Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not...
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...
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...
