White flight from hard truth
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff There was a time when Idahoans — particularly North Idahoans — weren’t afraid of talking about tough topics like social justice. That time is apparently gone, at least according...
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Here We Have Idaho
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Even from almost 500 miles away, the tension at the Idaho Statehouse is palpable as the Legislature continues into its near-historic time in session — topping 108 days as...
Mad About Science: Fencing
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The sword is one of our most basic — and important — technologies. It started when someone in the misty, forgotten past picked up a stick and thought it...
Hem-meh-way
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s hard to imagine what more can be said about Ernest Hemingway. Born in Illinois in 1899, died by self-inflicted gunshot in Idaho in 1961, in the interim he...
Officials: Lake will be mostly dry in summer 2021
By Clayton Rau Special to the Reader *FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NO ABILITY TO DETECT A JOKE, OR WHO CANNOT READ PAST A HEADLINE, THIS IS AN APRIL FOOL’S ARTICLE THAT RAN IN THE...
Here We Have Idaho
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Gem State lawmakers remain in recess until Tuesday, April 6 — in what Capitol watchers have referred to as a “historic” suspension of proceedings owing to “a rash” of...
Red Pilled
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff “The minute God crapped out the third caveman a conspiracy was hatched against one of them.” — Col. Hunter Gathers, OSS (ret., also fictitious) QAnon checks a lot of...
Road rules
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Learning how to drive is a rite of passage — for most teenagers, it’s their first brush with adulthood and a critical step toward independence. Often, getting their driver’s...
We gotta get out of this place
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff A decade or so ago, on the way home from a backcountry music festival in Montana, I stopped off with two friends at a bar in Clark Fork. We...
‘Nomadland’ is a pensive portrait of economic and social dislocation
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s unclear what critics mean when they say Nomadland is a film that mingles joy and sorrow. There is very little of the former and much of the latter...
