Point/Counterpoint:
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 been dropped in their...
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Maintaining the balance
By Justin Henney Reader Contributor Editor’s Note: The following piece of writing was submitted over a month ago but we have been backlogged with content, so we were unable to run it while the...
Vietnam: The New Asian Tiger
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist It was March 24, 2010, and I was at Bangkok’s new international airport, the fifth busiest in Asia. Along with my travel companions, I boarded Air Vietnam flight 830...
Obama, Trump or Putin: Will the real Antichrist please stand up?
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist “We just can’t work with him because our base thinks he’s the Antichrist.” —Barack Obama paraphrasing GOP leaders (8/25/16) President Putin is the Antichrist, and Russia is the 10-horned...
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In support of wilderness By John Zieski Reader Contributor As an avid hunter, hiker, backpacker, I enjoy spending time on our public lands with my wife. I am also a Christian, registered Republican, who...
Obama and Reagan: Assessing their legacies
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist RR is totally lost, out of his depth, and uncomfortable. He has not enough knowledge or decisiveness to cut through the contradictory advice that is being offered to him....
High School: Prison or Paradise?
Wendy Thompson, a Language Arts teacher at Forrest M. Bird Charter High School, recently challenged one of her students to write about high school in a humorous way. The student, who has written multiple...
Fact checking the Democratic Convention
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Author’s note: Two weeks ago I checked Trump’s convention speech, so it is only fair that I now look at statements from the Democrats. According to a Gallup poll,...
‘I saw the mushroom cloud’
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist After being honorably discharged from the Army Air Corps in 1945, my dear friend Howard Riggs held various construction management positions and worked abroad in Saudi Arabia, Iran and...
This is the place
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor My 1957 bride and I twice lived in Geneseo, Ill., a prosperous farm town of 7,000 joyful souls in Henry County, “Hog Capital Of The World.” It might be...
