By Zach HagadoneReader Staff The day after an election is always exhausting. Win or lose, they’re stressful exercises that more often than not combine overthinking with overdrinking, unhealthy food and long hours. This one,...
By Ben OlsonReader Staff For the first time in the Reader’s history, we ran the candidate questionnaire responses that we publish before every election through an AI-detection software called Pangram. We were surprised and...
A brief history of the Paris Catacombs By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff In the grand scheme of things, the catacombs beneath Paris are a relatively recent creation — younger, in fact, than most of its...
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff I don’t know about the rest of you people, but I could do with a breakage in our political fever at the midterms. It’s dire to imagine how little more...
By Ben OlsonReader Staff Last week, the transition into fall was complete when I lit the first fire in our woodstove at home. After sitting idle for months, this hunk of inert metal came...
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Do you knock on wood or cross your fingers when you want something good to happen — or something bad to not happen? Do you wear a rally cap when...
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff With the exception of bagging groceries at the Sandpoint Safeway, running the fryers at Serv-a-Burger, bartending at the long-lost Downtown Crossing and selling books at a shop in downtown Boise,...
By Ben OlsonReader Staff I’ve written several times in these pages about the strange proclivity Sandpointians have of saying “Third Street Pier” instead of the actual name, “Third Avenue Pier.” Like using the grammatically...
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff What does it take to call yourself an Idahoan or, better yet, a Sandpointian? I’ve lived along the shores of Lake Pend Oreille all my life. I grew up in...
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Much political hay has been made about the supposedly decrepit state of our nationwide public school system, with whole industries devoted to tearing down confidence in how kids are educated. ...
