Weighing In
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Last week, while GOP senators were scrambling to find enough votes to pass a repeal for the Affordable Care Act (a fight they ultimately lost), President Trump fired off...
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Making the case for wilderness designation for the Scotchman Peaks
By Carey Chisolm Reader Contributor As a recent retiree who moved to North Idaho from the Midwest, I have been interested in the discussion about the wilderness designation of the Scotchman Peaks area. I...
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, including: 1) Temperature (mean,...
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, with only two alternatives:...
Scotchman Peaks Wilderness: Why it is important for North Idaho
By Bill Harp Reader Columnist If you spend a lot of time looking at geography using satellite and aerial images like I do, you quickly realize that there are very few places in the...
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 aren’t peppered with as...
Envisioning a clean energy future: Part 1
By Art Piltch Reader Contributor “You never change things by fighting existing reality. To change something, you build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Buckminster Fuller “Whether you think you...
Living Life: What helps make a good marriage?
By Dianne Smith Reader Columnist “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” — Robert Quillen The secret to a good marriage is an interesting question, and if you did a survey,...
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 to this unlikely pairing,...
My view on Scotchman Peaks Wilderness
By Mike Comola Reader Contributor Scotchman Peaks, wild and remote, looms high above Clark Fork, Idaho and the Clark Fork of the Columbia River. Home to a small population of America’s remaining grizzly bears,...
