By Cate Huisman Reader Contributor Last week, I attended a hearing in Spokane of Washington State’s Energy Facility Site Evaluation Committee (EFSEC). Their topic was the proposed Tesoro-Savage Vancouver Energy Distribution Terminal, to be...
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Staff My first experience with refugees was more than 50 years ago. Just a couple of blocks from my childhood home in Helena, more than a dozen Cuban high school...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff One of the most important traits of community is a commitment to mutual well-being. And there’s nothing quite important to well-being as having enough to eat. In that sense,...
By Dion Nizzi Reader Contributor A few times a year, the opportunity arises for multiple Sandpoint gems to shine simultaneously. Next Thursday, Jan. 28, the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint (MCS) gets it’s opportunity, in...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Council members voted to withdraw the Sandpoint resolution supporting refugee resettlement Wednesday night, bringing an end to a heated, month-long controversy. Cheers erupted from the audience when Sandpoint Mayor...
By Drake the Dog Reader Staff Where am I taking my humans on this first Saturday of 2016? My Black lab mix, rescue pup friend Pepper has been barkin’ up a storm about La...
By Suzen Fiskin Reader Columnist You’re going about your day minding your own business. You go to the mailbox and discover that you spaced out on paying your credit card bill. Fill in your...
By Karen Seashore Reader Contributor I speak up for letters. I proclaim their power. Letters tucked into envelopes. Pages you can hold in your hands and hear the paper’s light crinkle. This call is...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff It’s tough being a golf nut in North Idaho. First, we’ve got these long, cold winters that seem to last forever. Then, once the snow is gone in the...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Good Night, Idaho is not the first fictional town from the Idaho panhandle that Keith Lee Morris has used in his fiction, but it may be the oddest. A...
