Author: Ben Olson

Rognstad recovering from skiing injury

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff All’s well that ends well for Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad, who is back home after undergoing surgery for a relatively minor spinal injury. Rognstad sustained the injury while skiing...

Changing your mind:

By Suzen Fiskin Reader Columnist Many moons ago, my friend Donna and I had been working our booties off, and decided to get out of Dodge for the weekend. We scored an invitation to...

Miles and Me:

By Tim Henney Reader Contributor Charlie “Yardbird” Parker and Dizzy Gillespie blew America’s musical roof off with bebop jazz in the late 1940’s. Softer, conventional jazz—my kind—languished. Their feverish screeching eventually wore out their...

A human face to the issue:

By Brenda Hammond Reader Contributor The 8th Annual Conference on Refugees, held at Boise State University on Feb. 8 and 9, was a gathering of approximately 425 people. I attended and planned to return...

Temple resigns Planning Commission in protest

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff The battle of wills between county commissioners and planning officials is heating up again with the resignation of Bonner County Planning Commission Chairman Steve Temple. Temple resigned Thursday over...

Leaving the Fold:

By Ben Olson Reader Staff Editor’s note: In the first installment of this new media series, we talked about the general impact the Internet has had on political discourse. In this second article, we’ve...