Rose Bowl mountain memories
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor Every New Year’s day I watch the Rose Bowl football game and become wistful. The camera always pans to the San Gabriel foothills above the stadium. When I was...
Author: Lyndsie Kiebert
Emily Articulated: The Nacirema Tribe
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist One of the first groups of people I studied in my Introduction to Anthropology course in college was the Nacirema, a tribe of humans still alive and prevalent in...
Train derails into Kootenai River
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Railroad and environmental officials are working to contain a fuel spill in the Kootenai River after a train derailed into the waterway Jan. 1. Burlington Northern-Santa Fe officials said...
District 1 lawmakers join Gov. Little in lining up priorities for 2020 Legislature
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Contributor It’s the most wonderful time of the year for Idaho lawmakers, lobbyists and political junkies. With the holiday decorations back in storage and a new year begun, Idaho legislators...
A grain of salt: The happiness project
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist Every year, without fail, the new year arrives. With it’s slow, unstoppable force, like blackberry overgrowth, it creeps over us with suffocating thorny truths and optimistic expectations of fruit....
The soundtrack to 2020
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The new year is sure to bring plenty of new tunes to love. Here are some picks from an insatiable consumer of music who came of age to the...
The Sandpoint Eater: A year of food
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist Standing tall on the counter in my kitchen is a brand-spanking-new, commercial mixer (a gift from all my children). The new mixer replaced my Kitchen Aide, which, after 40...
The year in advance
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The year 2000 has always felt like more of a product than an age: Reality 2000, the Next Generation, or something like that. Maybe it was the onslaught of...
Three nights of mountain bliss
By Ben Olson Reader Staff It’s time once again for all outdoor enthusiasts to gather at the altar of winter sport to herald in another year of movies from the mountains. The Banff Mountain...
The Late Night Buddhist: Pay it… somewhere
By Scott Taylor Reader Columnist A few years ago I realized that I’d had enough of sitting behind a desk, trying to teach junior-high students the geography of central Asia or get high-school kids...
