Clash at the top
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Idaho has seen no shortage of news at the intersection of politics and the pandemic, between endless critiques of the state’s coronavirus response to numerous COVID-related bills introduced during...
Author: Lyndsie Kiebert
Two for two
By Zach Hagadone and Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff It’s been a long-simmering conflict over the Festival at Sandpoint’s no-weapons policy — first bubbling up at a Sandpoint City Council meeting in August 2019 as Second...
A veteran storyteller
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff North Idaho author Michael Jacobson started writing in the 1980s, but did not pursue the trade seriously until 1993, when he was discharged from the U.S. Army after 17...
Expanding ‘frontcountry’ access for all
By Jason Welker Reader Contributor Sandpoint and its neighboring cities are blessed with an abundance of natural beauty — from the high peaks of the Selkirk and Cabinet mountains, to the pastoral contours of...
Summertime, and the eatin’s easy
By Zach Hagadone and Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Just in time for the run-up to summer, a number of new local eateries — both brick-and-mortar and mobile — are gearing up to serve hungry locals...
Mad About Science: Presidential travel
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Being the elected leader of the United States has its perks. One of those perks is secrecy, and that means not everything in this article may be completely accurate,...
Emily Articulated: Gathering
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist During the past year, the idea of “being social” has meant many different things. From the first weeks of quarantine — wherein the confines of my small house and...
A year of activism since the George Floyd killing, and what comes next
By Sandi Nicholson Reader Contributor It’s been a year since local teenagers who took to the Long Bridge to march in solidarity with Black Lives Matter were met by a mob of assault rifle...
Scorched earth politics leave little room for common ground. Can these Idaho groups fight extremism?
By Clark Corbin Idaho Capital Sun Lifelong Republican Jennifer Ellis almost doesn’t even recognize her own political party when she looks at some of Idaho’s far-right legislators who dominated the agenda this session. “This...
Bits ‘n’ Pieces: May 27, 2021
By Lorraine H. Marie Reader Columnist East, west or beyond, sooner or later events elsewhere may have a local impact. A recent sampling: Albert Watkins, the attorney for several defendants accused of rioting Jan....
