Bring back the nondiscrimination ordinance
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff It seems like every year or so, The New York Times finds an opportunity to write about Sandpoint and surrounds — sometimes telling everyone in the world they should move...
Category: Human Rights
Voting rights were a Republican thing, but with SAVE Act, they’re now in the GOP’s rearview mirror
By Jim JonesIdaho Capital Sun Voting rights in America were a Republican thing for more than 100 years, but the GOP made an about-face on the issue beginning with President Richard Nixon’s “Southern strategy.”...
Sandpoint Pride: A long weekend of love and acceptance
By Reader Staff The sixth annual Sandpoint Pride will once again spread a message of peace, love and acceptance for all in a joyful series of celebrations Thursday, July 9-Sunday, July 12. Each event...
Emily Articulated: Shrinking
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist There’s no shortage of places to consume celebrity culture. From award shows and courtside seats to press tours, junkets, movies, television and endless social media reposts, public figures are constantly...
Unchecked power has a price, and Idahoans are paying it
By Lauren NecocheaReader Contributor Two hundred and 50 years ago, we declared our independence from a king who abused his power. Our founders knew what unchecked authority could become: a president who answers to...
Bonner Community Food Bank set to double in size at new location
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff The Bonner Community Food Bank is on the verge of a major new phase in its more than 40 years of serving area residents with free food assistance, after acquiring...
Transgender Idahoans sue over ‘bathroom bill,’ citing 14th Amendment violations
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Less than a month after Gov. Brad Little signed into law House Bill 752, criminalizing transgender people using bathrooms according to their identity, the legislation is going to court. According...
Emily Articulated: Ethical
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist I was gifted my first Harry Potter book in third grade. It was wrapped alongside my siblings’ copies, with strict instructions to wait our turn and read them in order....
Holocaust documentary Carla the Rescuer to screen at the Panida
Event features Q&A with firsthand Holocaust witness Carla Peperzak By Reader Staff The Bonner County Human Rights Task Force invites the community to a special screening of Carla the Rescuer, a documentary on Holocaust...
‘Might makes right’ is wrong for the U.S. and the world
By Georgia EarleyReader Contributor During a CNN interview with Jake Tapper in January, Steve Miller, top adviser to the current administration, stated while discussing the potential U.S. annexation of Greenland and other military actions: ...
