Use Idaho’s excess revenues to save lives, not more money
By Sen. Melissa Witntrow, D-Boise
Special to the Reader
What if you were hanging on the edge of a cliff and your friend leaned down and started rapping hard on …
By Sen. Melissa Witntrow, D-Boise
Special to the Reader
What if you were hanging on the edge of a cliff and your friend leaned down and started rapping hard on …
By Kathleen Huntley
Reader Contributor
When he was barely 18, and unable to vote in this country, my late husband had a caduceus tattooed on his upper right arm. He …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
Well, it’s official. The year of curveball after curveball, of perpetually adapting to the unknown, and during which the unprecedented steadily became precedent, is coming …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Like so many naive and ever-so-slightly conceited teenage girls growing up in the 2000s, I had a blog.
It was a free WordPress domain with …
By Jeff Bohnhof
Reader Contributor
As I was growing up, I always knew that I was different. Not in a bad way, but I was always pretty much a loner. …
By Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad
Reader Contributor
I’d like to take a moment to reflect on what I have to be grateful for this holiday season. I’m grateful for the …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
I am planning to get married next July. I say “planning to” because I fear that printing definitives about anything personal and happy will tempt …
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
My 1957 Cal-Berkeley bride is staring 86 in the face and has an underlying medical condition, which makes her a COVID-19 magnet. I am 89 …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Staff
Not long ago, I was having one of “those days.” It was the kind of morning that started with a coffee burn on my tongue …
By Cynthia Dalsing
Reader Contributor
I take issue with Steven Bradshaw, Bonner County commissioner, after his recent diatribe against a public mask mandate by the Panhandle Health Department [News, “Education, …
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