Greetings from 2023: Send help
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Part of my weekly duties as publisher of the Reader is skimming through old newspaper archives for interesting news stories of the past for the …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Part of my weekly duties as publisher of the Reader is skimming through old newspaper archives for interesting news stories of the past for the …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Bonner County voters cast 6,053 ballots in the March 10 presidential primary election, nominating Former Vice President Joe Biden to be the Democratic standard bearer …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
Joining Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump’s clueless press secretary, 55 percent of white evangelicals believe that God has sent Donald Trump to save the nation. Jerry …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
With no end in sight to the government shutdown constricting Washington, D.C., it may well go on record as the longest in U.S. history.
That …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Every Idaho legislator and county commissioner — totaling 237 people — received email invitations to meet with Trump administration officials at the White House, including …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
As the centerpiece of state’s agricultural industry, the Idaho potato is iconic.
For many Americans, it’s Idaho’s only notable characteristic, a source of annoyance for …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
Trump is normalizing all this; he is, to borrow
a phrase, “defining deviancy down.”
—Bret Stephens, conservative columnist
Disorder, chaos, instability, uncertainty, intemperate
statements …
By Justin Henney
Reader Contributor
Each year I am reminded by others’ resolutions that I too can put effort into self improvement. My youngest daughter, Vi, age 7, helps me …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
Trump’s apparent economic success to date mostly reflects fortunate timing.
—The Economist 11/18/17
In a letter to the Moscow newspaper last month, Bill Tozer …
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