By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff With the 2017 Idaho legislative session due to kick off Jan. 9, Idaho lawmakers will decide how to use an unexpected windfall in tax revenue. In the wake of...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Congratulations, Idaho, you’re moving on up. Idaho economists reported this week that Idaho experienced the third-highest growth rate in the nation between between mid-2015 and mid-2016. Only Utah and...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Just across state lines, residents of Whitefish, Mont., are mobilizing against a possible armed demonstration by white nationalists. The small ski town, a familiar setting to any Sandpoint resident,...
By Jeff Thompson Reader Contributor Have you been out enjoying this new snow we’ve been getting? We have! And we at the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center thought it’d be the perfect time to talk...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist I don’t always write about huge, profound, galaxy-moving revelations. Sometimes I just like to make you reexamine stuff in your daily life, or learn about something that seemed mundane,...
By Vicki Longhini Reader Contributor What do you get when you combine snow, a groomed trail, free cross country ski equipment and free cross country ski lessons? Sound too good to be true? It...
By Ellen Weissman Reader Contributor The High Tea fundraiser for the DayBreak Center last Sunday was an extraordinary event with a sold-out crowd. Betty Overland played piano as the guests arrived while Sandy Jamieson, Darleen...
By Pastor Bob Evans Reader Contributor North Idaho has unfortunately been saddled with the ugly image of being a hideout for white nationalists/supremacists. There are still Confederate flags waving on poles and stuck on...
By Sandy Compton Reader Contributor Can you smell it? You remember. Rows of magic electric embers glow on verdant tinseled boughs. The fragrance fills the winter house. Gifts piled on the felted cover Carefully...
By Scarlette Quille Reader Columnist Dear Santa, I am writing you this because you are the king of the season, and it’s been rumored that you read all of your letters. I know you...
