The nature of humanity
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
I recently attended a memorial service for someone who left a big impact on my life. This was before I began as publisher of this …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
I recently attended a memorial service for someone who left a big impact on my life. This was before I began as publisher of this …
By Randy Worrall
Reader Contributor
American veterans share three things: a deep love for our nation, a shared oath to the Constitution and an understanding that the freedoms we enjoy …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Idaho District 1B Rep. Sage Dixon, R-Ponderay, has stepped down from his seat in the Legislature, bringing to a close his fifth term in office …
By Mark Reiner
Reader Contributor
Government, democracy, religion, Christianity: all grandiose, big, expansive ideas that have moved humanity to form unions, and to kill each other. There are many more …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
“I had to get out of Commie-fornia,” he said, eyebrows wagging, all anticipation of landing a shared joke.
It didn’t land. I had just been …
By Nancy Gerth
Reader Contributor
On Wednesday last I watched the Idaho House Health and Welfare Committee hear testimony on Bill 419, a bill sponsored by the Idaho Freedom Foundation. …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
When Mike Judge’s film Idiocracy was released in 2006, it landed in a different world. This was years before a buffoon named Donald Trump started …
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
It’s time to write something clever about the new year. Or at least something. We get an extra day in 2024, and we get to …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
The new Idaho Contraceptive Education Network launched Dec. 4 with the goal of preserving and expanding access to contraceptives throughout Idaho by educating the public …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
In the four years I attended Sandpoint High School many of my peers took their own lives — in 2015 we lost three in one …
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