Tagged: presidential election

Back of the Book / Education / Opinion / Politics / Zach Hagadone

February 20, 2025

In praise of nuanced disagreement

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

Among the many casualties of our present calamitous day is the quality of nuance. Power has a way of flattening the variability of ideas, regardless …

Arts & Culture / Back of the Book / Education / Opinion / Politics / Zach Hagadone

November 26, 2024

Crunching the election numbers in Caldwell

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

It has been an unexpected honor and pleasure to have been invited twice in the past year to travel the 400-plus miles south to Caldwell …

Back of the Book / Local Elections / Memories / Opinion / Personal history / Politics / Sandy Compton

November 13, 2024

A few thoughts… on Nov. 6 at 8:30 a.m.

By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist

When I was young, I had a book, I Have Five Pennies, in which a young boy is sent to the store by his mom …

Back of the Book / Health / Humor / Living Life / Local Elections / Memories / Opinion / Personal history / Random Digital Madness / Soncirey Mitchell / Travel

November 6, 2024

Bruce Willis, I am not

By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff

My intense fear of crashing into the ocean and being eaten by sharks has never stopped me from having a good time on an airplane. …

Ben Olson / Local Elections / Opinion / Politics

November 6, 2024

Taking stock at the brink

By Ben Olson
Reader Staff

There was an internet phenomenon from 2015 called “The Dress,” which seems appropriate to remember right now.

A week before her daughter’s wedding, a British …

Emily Articulated / Emily Erickson / Local Elections / Opinion / Politics

November 6, 2024

Emily Articulated: What now?

By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist

Rarely am I at a loss for words; but, sometimes, my stream of consciousness feels tangled and stuck, lodged in my throat or thick on …

Featured / Local Elections / News / News in Brief / Politics / Zach Hagadone

November 6, 2024

2024 election results

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

The 2024 general election was historic by every measure. Former-President Donald Trump won both the popular and Electoral College vote, besting Democratic Vice President Kamala …