Emily Articulated: Words
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist There are a lot of things I’m just really not good at. Cars and their complex mechanics, for example, transform from user manuals and routine maintenance schedules to science-fiction...
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Idaho politicos react to Trump impeachment trial
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff For the second time in his so-far single four-year term, former-President Donald Trump weathered an impeachment trial, being acquitted Feb. 13 by the U.S. Senate on a 57-43 vote...
Here we have Idaho: What’s happening this week at the Idaho Legislature
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The 2021 Idaho Legislature has reached its halfway point, with little to claim as an accomplishment. As reporter William L. Spence wrote Feb. 17 in the Lewiston Morning Tribune...
COVID milestone: More Idahoans vaccinated than infected
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Idaho reached a major milestone last week when the number of residents with at least one dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 surpassed the number of Idahoans who have...
If North Idaho was a board game
By Ben Olson Reader Staff What if North Idaho was a board game? How do you think it would look, and what exactly would be a good strategy to win? In the interest of...
The Sandpoint Eater
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist The pound cake, an all-time favorite dessert, has been around forever. It was first recorded here in the 1796 cookbook, American Cookery. I don’t have a copy, but I...
A groundbreaking discovery
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Sometimes it seems there’s little left for humankind to discover other than ever-more inventive ways to mess things up. So it is especially satisfying to reconnect with a sense...
Dark beer, warm heart: 219 hosts Dark Love Stout Week
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff While the extended local forecast calls for freezing temperatures, there’s a hot-and-bothered front moving in as we approach Valentine’s Day on Sunday, Feb. 14 — perfect conditions for Dark...
Little things mean a lot
By Tim Henney Reader Staff Having suffered through a year of COVID-19 and four years of national anguish and global disgrace, “the little things,” as the old song goes (vocals by Kitty Kallen, circa...
Bringing solutions, not division, to the table
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff For years, Luke Malek’s name has circulated among Idaho politicos as one to watch. A 2004 graduate of the College of Idaho, he served as North Idaho regional director...
