By Mayor Shelby Rognstad Reader Contributor There have been a lot of changes at City Hall over the past year. Most notably, the city completed a remodel of the administration offices. Since the city’s...
By Sen. Jim Woodward, R-Sagle Reader Contributor The 2022 legislative session adjourned for the year on March 31. Accomplishments of the session are an indicator of Idaho’s strong economy and the significant population growth...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff On a Wednesday evening, walking away from the office after sending another issue of the Reader, my heart pounds. Despite nearly five years of this weekly rhythm — plan...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff “The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality...
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Columnist “That seems like a lot of money to prune some trees,” he said. “You’re right,” I said. Because he was. Guess what: Inflation sucks. You know what else...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff It’s official: traveling is back. Though the number of people passing through TSA checkpoints hasn’t quite reached pre-pandemic levels, the seven-day average is the highest it has been since...
By Sandra Nicholson Reader Contributor Have you heard of the Kootenai War of ’74? The story begins with the Treaty of Hellgate. Ratified in 1855, it wasn’t until 1871 when the local Indigenous peoples...
By Tim Bearly Reader Columnist “I represent the blue-collar, everyday hard-working Americans,” said every politician ever. Well, I’m sorry, Mr. Politician, but your actions speak so many decibels louder than your insincere and platitudinous...
By Brad Smith Reader Contributor A bald eagle lights on its nest in a cottonwood tree above Trestle Creek and Lake Pend Oreille. A beaver methodically places another stick on its lodge down below....
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Two years ago on this day I was out of a job — and, for the first time in my job-hopping life, it was involuntary. I remember it well,...
