By Idaho House Minority Leader Ilana Rubel, D-Boise Reader Contributor The ballot initiative is the voice of the people. It’s the only mechanism for Idahoans to enact a law when legislators won’t listen. This...
By Clark Corbin Idaho Capital Sun A bill that bans transgender girls and women from participating in girls’ and women’s sports has quickly spread to more than 30 statehouses across the country after originating...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff For the second year in a row, Sandpoint’s Lost in the ’50s — a celebration of the cars, fashion and music of the 1950s — has been canceled. “It’s...
By Owen Bolson Reader Staff North Idaho has been under siege by space aliens, as it has been recently targeted as a place free from “galactic tyranny” for interstellar travelers of another kind. The...
By Clayton Rau Special to the Reader *FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NO ABILITY TO DETECT A JOKE, OR WHO CANNOT READ PAST A HEADLINE, THIS IS AN APRIL FOOL’S ARTICLE THAT RAN IN THE...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff We human beings have accomplished a lot in our short time on Earth. We’ve harnessed the forces of nature to work for us, achieved technological advances that blow other...
By Phil Deutchman Reader Contributor The U.S. Postal Service issued a new, “forever” stamp featuring the portrait of nuclear physicist Chien-Shiung Wu. She is not known to the general public, but is famous to...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Festival at Sandpoint is swinging into the 2021 season with a virtual wine auction, slated to run Monday, April 12 until Saturday, April 17. Owing to the ongoing...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff When The New York Times-produced documentary Framing Britney Spears hit FX and Hulu earlier this year it captivated audiences, but not in the way that a sold-out Spears stadium...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff “The minute God crapped out the third caveman a conspiracy was hatched against one of them.” — Col. Hunter Gathers, OSS (ret., also fictitious) QAnon checks a lot of...
