Tagged: opinion

Climate Change is a FACT

By Tony Lewis
Reader Contributor

First of all, climate is ALWAYS changing. That is a FACT!

Let’s review a couple of things about climate. There are many variables to it, …

Tragedy of the common sense

By Tim Bearly
Reader Contributor

From a young age we are all inculcated with binary reasoning. An either-or form of logic which typically results in an excluded-middle (no in-between) paradigm, …

A different take on the Fourth of July

By Jan Sarchio
Reader Contributor

I can’t be certain about the numbers. It is my gut, more than my calculator, that knows that the trees sing less, that the skies …

Not your average rap album

By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer

The stereotypes that accompany contemporary rap music are not the same stereotypes that accompany being a 21-year-old college-educated white female in North Idaho. Thanks …

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THE GHOST OF RICHARD BUTLER IN THE AGE OF TRUMP

By Christian Rose
Reader Contributor

Recently, some Sandpoint residents woke up on a Sunday morning to find racist fliers had …

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