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...
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A profile in cowardice
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff By the third paragraph of Idaho Gov. Brad Little’s annual State of the State address on Jan. 6, it became clear that we can expect heightened Trumpification of state...
Freedom Caucus vs. Freedom Caucus
By Daniel Walters InvestigateWest From the beginning, conflict has been embedded in the Freedom Caucus brand. During the past decade, the House Freedom Caucus, made up of the most right-wing members of the U.S....
Idaho’s militant fringe is trying to build a private army
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s been a bad run of years for a lot of reasons, but one particularly insidious trend has been eroding the substructures of civil society in Idaho since at...
Dumb of the week
By Ben Olson Reader Staff It’s been a long time since we’ve written about former District 1 Rep. Heather Scott in these pages. Rep. Scott moved over to District 2 in 2022 after a new...
New legislative map moves Rep. Heather Scott out of District 1
By Reader Staff Bonner County is among the eight counties split in the legislative map upheld Jan. 27 by the Idaho Supreme Court, along with Ada, Bannock, Bonneville, Canyon, Kootenai, Nez Perce and Twin...
Here we have Idaho: What’s happening this week at the Idaho Legislature
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The 2021 Idaho Legislature has reached its halfway point, with little to claim as an accomplishment. As reporter William L. Spence wrote Feb. 17 in the Lewiston Morning Tribune...
Summer of our discontent
By Lyndsie Kiebert and Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Both the state and Panhandle Health District continue their upward trend in new cases of the novel coronavirus, as the latter — which covers Idaho’s five...
Heather Scott’s ‘Holocaust,’ ‘Little Hitler’ comments draw international attention
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff If Blanchard Republican Rep. Heather Scott was hungry for headlines, she now has a cornucopia on which to dine. The world has taken notice of her recent remarks comparing...
Reader Quick Hits: Tuesday, April 21
Idaho coronavirus update: Bonner County’s lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases remain at four with no deaths reported. According to the Panhandle Health District, neighboring Kootenai County has 54 lab-confirmed cases and one probable case. Statewide reporting indicates 30...
