Madame Wu
By Phil Deutchman
Reader Contributor
The U.S. Postal Service issued a new, “forever” stamp featuring the portrait of nuclear physicist Chien-Shiung Wu. She is not known to the general public, …
Category: Opinion
Opinion
Emily Articulated
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
Recently, several bills have been making headlines across the country and in Idaho. Their wording seems to have a way of skirting around each bill’s …
A Few Thoughts…
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
Having survived COVID-19 and feeling sort of — but not completely — immune, I recently traveled down Mexico way. I didn’t go into Mexico, except …
The Lumberjill
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
Once upon a time, in a seemingly far off land, I was a writer. I woke every morning, grabbed my jar of peanut butter …
Mayor’s Roundtable: Spring updates
By Mayor Shelby Rognstad
Reader Contributor
Spring has begun and with it comes a renewed sense of optimism and excitement for change. More people have had COVID-19 shots, myself included, …
We gotta get out of this place
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
A decade or so ago, on the way home from a backcountry music festival in Montana, I stopped off with two friends at a bar …
Idaho has yet again dropped the ball on education
By Bret Johnson
Reader Contributor
Idaho House Republicans recently killed a $6 million bill to fund preschool literacy. Idaho has always been leery of Washington, and, based on our track …
Lottery’s golden goose killed in Boise
By David Keyes
Reader Contributor
The odds were pretty low Idaho would even have a state lottery when in 1983 a legislative committee harpooned the proposal.
After all, the Idaho …
The unfounded fear of social justice
By Sen. Melissa Wintrow, D-Boise
Reader Contributor
Opposition to “social justice” by the Idaho Legislature, while troubling, is not surprising. If you are in a majority, which has experienced power …
Emily Articulated
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
With the world feeling like it’s starting to reopen, and the edges of our confinement slowly peeling back into this newest version of “normalcy,” I’ve …
Letters
- Support Terry Ford… Dear Fellow Bonner County Residents, I am supporting Terry Ford for Sheriff of Bonner County. It is seldom I talk about personal issues but I think this is relevant. A little over a year ago I was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor. I had to go to Spokane for surgery which left ...
- An Open Letter for Gov. Otter… Governor Otter, Thank you for your important and courageous veto against the “Bible-in-Schools” bill. I live in Sandpoint and am a retired professor of physics from the University of Idaho. As a scientist, I could envision that if the Christian Bible were brought into a science class, a public-school, a science teacher ...
- Commissioners Flaunting Regulations… Dear Editor, The Clagstone Meadows incident is the latest in a disturbing string of actions by county commissioners suggesting a disregard for the laws they’re tasked with upholding. The project—a win-win for sportsmen, conservationists, and Stimson Lumber Company—was opposed by two commissioners in an illegal letter that they composed in violation ...
- Land Use Code Changes… Dear Editor, There has been much news about the recent changes to the Bonner County Land Use code and in the county Planning Department. I am often asked “what happened and why should I care?” Good questions. What happened? The county commissioners recently changed the land use code in two ways. The ...
- Bay Trail Not a Party Spot… Dear Editor, It’s beginning to be very busy at the Pend Oreille Bay Trail. Please be good neighbors and remind people who use the trail to park at City Beach or the former Windbag Marina and enjoy the walk to the trail. The small parking lot at the trail head is ...
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