Love sucks: History’s tragic lovers
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Throw a rock at a stack of Shakespeare plays and you’ll undoubtedly hit a doomed lover or two in the process. But stories of tragic …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Throw a rock at a stack of Shakespeare plays and you’ll undoubtedly hit a doomed lover or two in the process. But stories of tragic …
By Matt Nykiel
Reader Contributor
Local conservationists are asking the U.S. Coast Guard to do a better job of identifying and mitigating the risks that will come along with building …
By Sen. Maryanne Jordan
Reader Contributor
Rep. Sue Chew is helping fight soaring drug prices by expanding who can donate unused medications and what organizations can receive them. On Monday, …
By Jodi Rawson
Reader Contributor
Billionaires only began to exist around a century ago, starting with “oil magnate” John D. Rockefeller in 1916. Today there are around 2,500 billionaires, and …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Every year around this time, the Sandpoint Reader teams up with SandpointOnline to host a media survey. We try to ask as many people as …
It was four years ago this week that the Reader came back from newspaper purgatory. Founded in 2004, the first iteration of the Reader published every week for over eight …
By Gabrielle Duebendorfer
Reader Contributor
One of my dogs recently got caught in a wolf trap for the second time in the last few years. The first time it was …
By Sen. Maryanne Jordan
Reader Contributor
I am often asked why I serve in the Idaho Senate. Why, as a Democrat in Idaho, would I choose the Idaho legislature? There …
By Chantilly Higbee
Reader Contributor
Optimization is important to the sustainability of any industry. Transportation by rail is no exception. However, the benefits gained by working efficiently should be balanced …
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