Legislative update
Looking ahead to the 2026 session By Rep. Mark Sauter, R-SandpointReader Contributor Greetings, Monday, Jan. 12 is the start of the 2026 Idaho legislative session. However, a more than usual amount of legislative activity...
Author: Ben Olson
208 Fiction 2026 contest results
Here we present the winners of the fifth annual Sandpoint Reader 208 Fiction contest, in which we invited writers to submit a work of fiction totaling exactly 208 words for consideration by a panel...
Afraid to turn away
By Ben OlsonReader Staff With the publication of our fifth annual 208 Fiction winners and honorable mentions in this edition (see Pages 14-16), I thought I’d share one of my own short stories. I...
Navy takes delivery of future USS Idaho submarine
By Reader Staff The USS Idaho Commissioning Committee announced earlier in December that the Virginia Class, nuclear-powered fast attack submarine bearing the state’s name has been delivered to the U.S. Navy. “This is the...
BOCC undoes Dec. 4 vote, requests legal clarification on Fair Board duties
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff The Bonner County board of commissioners held a special meeting Dec. 30 with members of the Bonner County Fair Board, aiming to clarify each party’s respective duties regarding the fairgrounds’...
Medicaid expansion cuts threaten access to care for everyone
By Hillarie MatlockReader Contributor People without health insurance are human and they still get sick. When they get very sick, they go to emergency rooms, like everyone else. Without Medicaid expansion, the cost of...
Mad about Science: Malware
By Brenden BobbyReader Columnist The internet is a little bit like the Wild West. There are a lot of rules out there, but a lot of folks don’t really follow them. Most people are...
Top TV of 2025
Or at least the shows I especially liked By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Putting together these end-of-year summary articles is always a somewhat fraught exercise. When it comes to something like “TV shows of the...
Top 10 movies of 2025
By Willie WittezehlerReader Contributor Editor’s note: Willie was press-ganged into providing this “top 10” list of 2025 films during a chance meeting in the alley next to the Reader office. Despite being an all-around...
2026 year in preview
What could be in the coming year By Reader Staff While it may be a fool’s errand to predict the future, we’ve been doing it at the Reader every year since 2020 — getting...
