By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Candidates for contested Bonner County commissioner and District 1 Seat B representative seats faced off April 29 — albeit via video conference platform Zoom — at a “virtual” candidates...
By James Richard Johnson Special to the Reader I want my America back! I grew up in the Midwest in the 1950s and want back the America that stood for what I believed to...
By Reader Staff Looking ahead to what’s sure to be a critical election in 2020, the N.Idaho Women are preparing for their fourth annual Women’s March, set to take place Saturday, Jan. 18 in...
By Tim Bearly Reader Contributor “He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, “Beyond Good and Evil,” 1886 The movement, like all social movements, started...
By Nick Gier Reader Contributor About this time last year, I was traveling in Portugal and visited a number of sites in Lisbon. Some of them were dedicated to Vasco da Gama, the navigator...
By Sen. Jim Woodward Reader Contributor Dear friends and neighbors of Legislative District 1, The first regular session of Idaho’s 65th Legislature is complete. Spanning 95 days, the session was 15 days longer...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist “I believe in markets — markets that work. Markets that have a cop on the beat and have real rules, and everybody follows them.” —Sen. Elizabeth Warren Just as...
By Daniel C. Radford Reader Contributor Idaho has a new political force on hand, Reclaim Idaho. And it looks like it’s making the elites upset. After we, the people, voted at over 60 percent...
By Tim Bearly Reader Contributor “It is the responsibility of intellectuals,” Noam Chomsky wrote in a 1967 essay, “to speak the truth and expose the lies.” Regrettably, for some intellectuals, such a function —...
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 Falwell, Jr., president of...
