The Sandpoint Eater: Grit and grits
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist Years (and years) ago, I was a bored teenager, visiting my father for what felt like an endless hot summer in the California desert. One day after he and...
Author: Lyndsie Kiebert
A kinder, gentler kind of film
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Living in a dramatic age when each day seems to bring some new calamity or crisis, quiet displays of empathy are refreshing. That’s truer as many of us live...
Shades of gray
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff The ironies and contradictions in Passing, a 2021 Netflix film based on the 1929 novel by Nella Larsen, are apparent from the outset. The story leans into its internal...
MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech in its entirety
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Some moments in American history will be remembered forever. One such moment occurred on Aug. 28, 1963, about 100 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing...
208 Fiction: 2022 Contest Results
Welcome to the Sandpoint Reader’s first-ever 208 Fiction contest, in which we invited any and all writers to submit a work of fiction totaling exactly 208 words for consideration by an esteemed panel of...
The science and importance of reading (Part 2)
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Today’s article is a deeper dive into how your brain processes reading. Due to the nature of the complexity of neuroscience, much of this article will be condensed, and...
A few thoughts: On Something and SDRs
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist At Oakland Airport, I await a flight to Spokane, the last leg home from Seattle. It’s a roundabout way to get there, but it fits the day, which has...
Idaho sees backlog of positive COVID-19 tests
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff The disruption to Idaho caused by the novel coronavirus is taking on a familiar pattern, as the omicron variant of COVID-19 propels statewide trends upward, putting renewed strain on...
Here we have Idaho
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff In a 29-minute speech Jan. 10, Idaho Gov. Brad Little delivered his fourth State of the State at the Capitol in Boise, officially opening the 2022 session of the...
Alex Barron, ‘Bard of the American Redoubt,’ faces felony child sex abuse and domestic battery charges
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Sean A. Barron, a 52-year-old Post Falls man well known in North Idaho ultraconservative political circles, has been charged with felony sexual abuse of a child under 16 and...
