From the first piece of steel to the last
Local man Frank Wakeley recounts helping to build the World Trade Center towers By Ben OlsonReader Staff Frank Wakeley has a claim to fame that few — if any — can equal: the longtime...
Tagged: US history
Mad about Science: Tools of the ‘frontier’
By Brenden BobbyReader Columnist It was brutal to live in the 1800s. Cholera was nearly as prevalent as the common cold. Elevating your family from poverty meant packing up everything you owned and trusting...
Sorry JD Vance, there is no ‘native-born’ American aristocracy
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Add another entry in the ever-expanding catalog of lies, intellectual abuses and inanities that define the Trump administration, with the remarks delivered July 5 by Vice President JD Vance...
‘American never was America to me’
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff I wrote a snippet titled, “On a more bitter note…” in the June 12 “Junk Drawer,” wherein I argued that members of my generation are doing the best we...
New radio documentary People of the Salmon debuts on public radio and podcast platforms
By Reader Staff The Idaho Mythweaver announces the release of its newest public radio documentary and podcast episode, People of the Salmon. It will be broadcast live at noon Monday, May 26 — Memorial...
Erasing history is a betrayal of future generations
By Liam FitzGerald Reader Contributor “The truth will set you free.” — John 8:32 On March 27, President Donald Trump issued an executive order, which, according to the White House, is intended to restore...
Big talk
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff One of the unexpected benefits of living through what may be the wholesale collapse of the United States’ civil, political and economic life is that conversations are seldom dull...
A Few Thoughts… On what we have now
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist My last column prompted interesting letters to the editor, some of which weren’t printed because the writers didn’t wish to be in the public eye. One that did get...
POAC presents Living Voices — The New American — at Panida Theater
By Reader Staff The Pend Oreille Arts Council will offer audiences a unique historical experience Friday, Jan. 31 with its Living Voices production of The New American at the Panida Theater (300 N. First...
Tribal artifacts uncovered during McArthur Lake project could rewrite history
By Reader Staff What started as a highway construction project in Boundary County has resulted in archaeological findings that have the potential to rewrite the earliest history of human habitation in the region —...
