U.S. Navy launches attack submarine USS Idaho
By Reader Staff
One of the U.S. Navy’s newest attack submarines, the future USS Idaho (SSN 799), launched from General Dynamics Electric Boat’s shipyard into the Thames River in Connecticut …
By Reader Staff
One of the U.S. Navy’s newest attack submarines, the future USS Idaho (SSN 799), launched from General Dynamics Electric Boat’s shipyard into the Thames River in Connecticut …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Information is the most valuable currency available to humankind. Gold and silver are great, but the information of how to steal someone else’s gold and …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
I’ve done a lot of dumb things in my life, but no matter what, I can always rest on my laurels as a fifth-grade chess …
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
I got the call on a Sunday afternoon… It was a neighbor of my folks back in Walla Walla, where I grew up. I was …
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
The reason journalism giants Ben and Cameron like me to write for the Reader is because I’m old. They invite me to remember things. I …
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