The nation’s public defender crisis:
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist For almost a century the American Civil Liberties Union has been in the forefront in protecting the people’s constitutional rights. For this column I will focus on the Sixth...
Category: Opinion
Changing Your Mind:
By Suzen Fiskin Reader Columnist Have you ever been midstream in an important conversation and had that horrible sinking feeling that it’s not going your way? It could be a meeting about a job...
‘Trudell’ chronicles life of Native American activist
By Reader Staff The March film screening finale, as part of the East Bonner County Library District and The Idaho Mythweaver’s free Native Heritage Film Series, is a provocative and poignant artistic portrait that...
Being and belonging in the West
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Contributor It was a calculated kind of romance. From day one, I knew what I wanted and I sought out my ends with a single-minded conviction. I studied my...
Suffer the Little Children:
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Sixteen-month-old Matthew was sick again, and his mother, Rita Swan, was worried. The infant had come down with a dangerous fever three times, and three times, Swan had called...
The Straight Poop: Sandpoint Upholstery
By Drake the Dog Reader Pet Columnist Where am I taking my humans today? Spring is in the air, and it’s time to find some fabric to re-upholster my dog bed. The Missus is...
America’s largest slave rebellion and the mutilation of Louisiana cane cutters
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist “If heads on poles were symbols of control, they were also symbols of the ritual violence that was the constant underlying element of Louisiana society.” —Daniel Rasmussen, “American Uprising:...
When we swung and swayed
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor A recent New York Times carried the obituary of former big band vocalist Kitty Kallen. This, in part, is what it said: “Kitty Kallen, her voice sweet and clear,...
What’s really at stake in the Apple encryption debate
By Julia Angwin for ProPublica The FBI’s much-discussed request to Apple can seem innocuous: Help us extract six weeks of encrypted data from the locked iPhone of Syed Farook, an employee of San Bernardino’s...
Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn:
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist “Sanders would be a GOP dream. America will never go socialist.” —Bill O’Reilly The last stop on my month-long trip to Europe last September was London. The London papers...
