Category: Opinion

Opinion

Featured / Nick Gier / Opinion

24 Sep, 2017

Our sanctuary cities have a sacred history

By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist

Our Sanctuary Cities have a Sacred History

By Nick Gier

Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for
one of the least of …

Opinion

21 Sep, 2017

Love Lives Here

By Jim Healey
Reader Contributor

Hate-filled fliers left in citizens’ driveways here in Bonner County. A peace flag ripped down from a local’s front porch here in Bonner County. Racist …

Featured / Opinion

18 Sep, 2017

Idaho sewage treatment plants are not making the grade

By Justin Hayes
Reader Contributor

When you flush your toilet, the contents don’t magically disappear. Sewage gets cleaned at a sewage treatment plant operated by your city and then discharged …

Opinion

14 Sep, 2017

Is your heart a black hole?

By Marjolein Groot Nibbelink
Reader Contributor

A solitary friend and I spent a week in a cabin in Covelo, Calif., speaking of astrophysics while I was cross referencing Bill Bryson’s …

Opinion

14 Sep, 2017

Battle Call

By Michael Jacobson
Reader Contributor

In March 1991 unsettling photos of C-130 military cargo planes laden with flag draped coffins filled the news media.

We were in Afghanistan.

Prior to …

Opinion / Random Digital Madness

14 Sep, 2017

Random Digital Madness: Augmented Reality — why you will wonder how you lived without it

By Bill Harp
Reader Columnist

Why AR? So, if augmented reality (AR) is not on your technology radar, I would like to change that. A few months ago, one of …

Opinion / Sports and Outdoors

10 Sep, 2017

The most polluted site in Sandpoint and what it’s doing to our water

By Shannon Williamson
Reader Columnist

You know that piece of land on Boyer that sits between the Lake Pend Oreille High School and the railroad tracks? Across from Super One? …

Dianne Smith / Living Life / Opinion

8 Sep, 2017

Living Life: Help a Foster Child, Become a CASA

By Dianne Smith
Reader Columnist

Foster children experience a journey like no other. They are often placed in the homes of strangers where they are left to figure out all …

Nick Gier / Opinion

8 Sep, 2017

Moscow pastor agrees with Trump on Charlottesville tragedy

By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist

There has never been a multi-racial society which has existed
with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world.

—Douglas Wilson, …

Nick Gier / Opinion

4 Sep, 2017

“Deaths of Despair” Reveals America’s Troubled Soul A “White Death” Takes the Lives of 45-54 Year-Olds

By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist

The workman is not in harmony with his social
position if he is not convinced that he has his deserts.

—Emile Durkheim

These p…

Letters

Impending lawsuit… Dear Editor, I must inform you of my impending suit against the Reader. My eyeballs strained so hard trying to read the map of the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail, (Oct. 8 issue) that they got hernias! Seriously though, for those “older” people that read the Reader, a blown up map ...
Rebuttal to a rebuttal… Dear Editor, Golly Ben, did I get under your skin? What surprised me most about your rebuttal to my Oct. 15th letter (“Expletive deleted…”) is how you took the low road and made it a personal attack of me. You made it personal Ben, why? Are you that insecure? In fact, ...
Shelby the best choice… Dear Editor, I am part of a large group of people who live outside of Sandpoint, but consider Sandpoint home. Sandpoint is where we go for our groceries, entertainment, eating out, and where we attend church. We are invested in Sandpoint. What happens in and to Sandpoint is important to us. Sandpoint ...
Candidate responds… Dear Editor, I found it ironic that Mr. Macdonald criticized my “un-responsiveness” to city residents while at the same criticized my opposition to increased coal and oil rail traffic. Somehow he fails to realize that the coal/oil train issue has repeatedly drawn more public participation than any single issue before council ...
Negative campaigning… Dear Editor, Its known by every voter and is commonly hated by all, often used as an excuse to not vote by many. It sickens the election like a disease and is highly contagious, spreads faster than wildfire with nearly exact results. You are hard pressed to find a proponent of ...