Trump is wading into the Rubicon
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The past two or so weeks have to be among the bizarrest in U.S. living memory. It’s hard to even know where to begin. On May 30, President Donald...
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A Few Thoughts… On writing for free
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist After 61 days away traveling the West — with 10 days on Maui thrown into the middle — it’s good to be home. I drove 7,434.8 miles, took way...
Cream always rises to the top
By Ben Olson Reader Staff I’ve been a struggling writer most of my life, which is a funny statement from someone who owns a newspaper. It’s also the reason I went into the newspaper...
The flag flap is stupid
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff According to most sources, the first flag — as we would recognize it today — was hoisted somewhere in either what we call the Indian Subcontinent or China as...
Don’t lose sight of the game
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There was a time when sports were just about everything in my life. Every summer, my dad loaded us in the car and drove across the country and back...
Born on Good Friday
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff I was born on Good Friday. I wasn’t raised religious, but I’ve always understood the cultural significance of that date and worn it like a birthmark. My life began...
Big talk
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff One of the unexpected benefits of living through what may be the wholesale collapse of the United States’ civil, political and economic life is that conversations are seldom dull...
A Few Thoughts… On the power of consent
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist I turned 74 last week, and I’m thinking of turning away from political commentary. I have tried for 25-plus years to get people to think for themselves about who...
Imagine the opposite
By Ben Olson Reader Staff One of my favorite classes in college was Logic and Critical Thinking. In that course, I learned how to obtain a larger and more complete view of the world...
‘Hey, Rube’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff When I was a cub reporter at the Associated Press, stationed in the bowels of the pre-renovation Idaho Capitol, circa 2003, we had a CRT TV bolted to a...
