The flag flap is stupid
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
According to most sources, the first flag — as we would recognize it today — was hoisted somewhere in either what we call the Indian …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
According to most sources, the first flag — as we would recognize it today — was hoisted somewhere in either what we call the Indian …
By TJ Redden
Reader Contributor
I am absolutely heartbroken for Sandpoint. Our town is no longer even recognizable.
Once a peaceful place filled with kindness and neighborly care, where people …
By Diana Dawson
Reader Staff
If an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, then it is especially true with fire prevention. On Tuesday, May 20, voters in …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Far-right leaders who claim to model themselves after America’s Founding Fathers are now taking on the role of the nation’s absent fathers by attempting to …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Contributor
Many mothers will receive cards and novelty coffee mugs this May dubbing them “#1 Mom,” but only one Sandpoint woman could ever boast the titles …
By Nishelle Gonzales
Reader Contributor
I have sat back and watched this new administration the last few months with horror and grief. I had a realization today that brings me …
By Clarice M. McKenney
Reader Contributor
For more than 50 years I have voted Democrat, and most of those years I was unable to be an activist, be involved in …
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
By some combination of luck and perseverance, I am six weeks into a 60-day drive-and-fly road trip. This is the vacation I planned to take …
By Ben Olson
Reader Contributor
A district judge in Utah issued a marvelous decision on April 18, finding Utah’s school voucher law to be unconstitutional. The 60-page decision was based …
By Reader Staff
Publisher’s note: Congressman Russ Fulcher, R-Idaho, came to the Sandpoint Reader offices on April 23 for an interview, but we didn’t have enough space to run the …
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