Private school voucher students are doing poorly
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
A 2017 study in the District of Columbia about the effects of private school vouchers has further confirmed the results of recent studies in Indiana, …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
A 2017 study in the District of Columbia about the effects of private school vouchers has further confirmed the results of recent studies in Indiana, …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
What faculty governance? I thought that was what we were for.
—a former member of the UI Board of Regents
Proposals to make governance “more …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
The combined voices of students, teachers, businesses, and legislators may represent a turning point in the battle against gun violence. It is now time for …
By Bill Lewis
Reader Contributor
Several months ago, a medical marijuana company purchased a small, 120-acre town called Nipton, Calif.
Nipton is a nearly-deserted mining community north of the Mojave …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
Most Christians do not know that Muslims hold Mary and Jesus in utmost esteem. The virgin mother of Jesus is mentioned 34 times in the …
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
A problem with being a writer is that if you write long enough you begin to repeat yourself. Vonnegut and Heinlein escaped it, but Grisham, …
By A.C. Woolnough
Reader Columnist
Parkinson’s Disease is a thief. It is insidious. It is sneaky. It is destructive. It sneaks up unsuspected and does its best to diminish one’s …
By Nick Gier
Reader Contributor
George Will is one of our foremost conservative columnists. Except for some overly artful phrasing, he usually writes well-reasoned and evidence-based articles. His most …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
If you’re openly inciting violence, that’s a problem. But other than that,
we can’t start doing this filtering of people’s words and what they say.…
By Shelby Rognstad
Reader Contributor
This article is the second installment of a four-part series through October describing my goals and priorities as mayor of Sandpoint. Those are: 1) Engage …
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