Weight-loss challenge: The difficulty of changing habits
By Gabrielle Duebendorfer, ND
Reader Contributor
You probably know what is healthy and harmful for you. You probably have set your best intention and have resistance prevail. It’s like a …
By Gabrielle Duebendorfer, ND
Reader Contributor
You probably know what is healthy and harmful for you. You probably have set your best intention and have resistance prevail. It’s like a …
By A.C. Woolnough
Reader Columnist
First, we need to establish who we are. As a community, we’re not exclusive — anyone can join. We do not discriminate based on age, …
By A.C. Woolnough
Reader Columnist
About 150 Bonner County residents have Parkinson’s. It is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases. Scientists describe it as chronic (never going away) and …
By Scarlette Quille
Reader Columnist
I live in the United States. I am not a member of law enforcement or a government agency. I am like most of you reading …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
As a fellow minister in Peter Lillback’s denomination
[conservative Presbyterian], I can tell you that a large number
of us are embarrassed by his poor …
By Scarlette Quille
Reader Humor Columnist
Today, I am going to take a moment to discuss something that is on everyone’s mind: breasts. Breasts are the most controversial part on …
By Gabrielle Deubendorfer
Reader Contributor
I feel compelled to respond to Mr. Rose’s letter to the editor of Jan. 11, in which he claims that Mr. Libby’s LTE of Dec. …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
When comedian Aziz Ansari became the latest recipient of a sexual misconduct allegation, it took me a few days before I opened the story.…
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
I’ve always liked the rain, listening to it dance on a tin roof or watching the steam rise off that roof after it quits and …
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