By Sandi Nicholson Reader Contributor It’s been a year since local teenagers who took to the Long Bridge to march in solidarity with Black Lives Matter were met by a mob of assault rifle...
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Columnist Dear reader, allow me to let you in on a little secret: Your hired laborers, though they may appreciate you as an individual, do not enjoy your presence...
By Brenda Hammond Reader Contributor The banner at the Chamber of Commerce Visitor’s Center has generated discussion in the community — especially after it was slashed in two, repaired, and put back up. The...
By Sen. Jim Woodward, R-Sagle Special to the Reader The 2021 Idaho legislative session is complete, for now at least. For the first time in our 130 years of statehood, the Idaho House and...
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist My childhood library was a squat brick building with two sentry-like willow trees and a view of the sediment-stained Tomorrow River — a sleepy stream that winds its way...
By Dan McDonald Reader Contributor I’m baffled. I recently noted the Bonner County Republican Central Committee is coming out against the Solid Waste Bond on the May 18 ballot. I thought Republicans stood for...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff It’s an ongoing joke that even though my mom and I live about a quarter-mile apart, we never see each other. This is not entirely true. We are busy...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff There was a time when Idahoans — particularly North Idahoans — weren’t afraid of talking about tough topics like social justice. That time is apparently gone, at least according...
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist I’ve recently become aware that my 30th birthday is later this year; aware in the same kind of way as a far-off vacation that starts taking up more space...
By Brenda Hammond Reader Contributor The Bonner County Human Rights Task Force sends its deepest sympathy to the victims of hate mail received recently by neighbors in our community. We are appalled by the...
