The Lumberjill: Shy Ronnie, use your chainsaw
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Columnist “I want to be her in my next life,” I heard our client say to her husband. She said it about me. I ducked my head and soldiered...
Category: Opinion
Idaho’s transportation future
By Sen. David Nelson, D-Moscow Reader Contributor Investing in infrastructure is something almost all Idahoans can agree on, yet we haven’t got it down. This might be the year we can make to make the...
Voters must not reward their own suppression
By Idaho House Minority Leader Ilana Rubel, D-Boise Reader Contributor The ballot initiative is the voice of the people. It’s the only mechanism for Idahoans to enact a law when legislators won’t listen. This...
The power of words
By K.L. Huntley Reader Contributor Nothing warms the heart more than when someone sincerely tells us they love us — when the cat jumps in your lap and begins to purr or you are...
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, but is famous to...
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 purpose, encapsulating their intent...
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 just a tiny bit,...
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 and mug of tea,...
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, and it has provided...
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 in Clark Fork. We...
