Houseplant hospital
How to keep your plants alive over the winter By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Winter is peak mortality season for desk cactuses and bathroom ferns, which suddenly seem to brown and wilt when the weather...
Author: Ben Olson
Mad about Science: Inversion
By Ben OlsonReader Staff Publisher’s note: Brenden Bobby is out again this week, so you’re stuck with me. He’ll be back to the usual soon. My partner and I share an inside joke about...
The Pro-Voice Project hosts ‘OB-GYN Care on the Line’
By Reader Staff The Pro-Voice Project will host “OB-GYN Care on the Line: A Community Conversation” — a listening-first forum that invites Bonner County residents to talk about how the loss of OB-GYN capacity...
‘To be or not to be’
Thoughts on the Sandpoint city administrator position By Carrie LoganReader Contributor This Shakespearean quote seems appropriate, given the renewed discussion about whether or not to add a city administrator position to the city payroll....
Idaho can help level the political playing field
By Susan DrumhellerReader Contributor Back in 1990, the average U.S. House of Representative candidate spent about $400,000 ($900,000 in 2024 dollars) to run for office. That amount became $3 million in 2022, according to...
Echoes of justice: Three legacies, one call
Where action, thought and memory meet By Kari SaccomannoReader Contributor Social justice is not an ideal we inherit — it is a world we build. It demands courage, clarity and a willingness to stand...
Banff Mountain Film Festival world tour marks 50 years
Films to screen at the Panida from Jan. 16-18 By Reader Staff Celebrating 50 years of the Banff Centre’s adventure and culture films, the 2026 tour Banff Mountain Film Festival will screen Friday, Jan....
Music hath charms to soothe a savage beast
By Tim HenneyReader Contributor The last era in which our beloved 250-year-old democracy was faced with extinction, as it is today, was the early 1940s, when we of the free world (Allies) defended ourselves...
Need For Creed takes you higher
By Reader Staff With ’90s rock nostalgia being at an all-time high, prepare for a night of unapologetic, arena-sized rock with tribute band Need For Creed bringing the music of Creed to life. The...
POAC presents Living Voices’ The Klondike at the Panida Theater
By Reader Staff The Pend Oreille Arts Council will present Living Voices: The Klondike: The Last Adventure on Thursday, Jan. 15 at the Panida Theater (300 N. First Ave., in downtown Sandpoint). Scheduled for...
