Shake, Rattle and Roll: A Diversified Portfolio
By A.C. Woolnough
Reader Columnist
Most financial advisers recommend a diversified portfolio — primarily to reduce risk and maximize potential growth. If you, as an investor, put all your eggs …
Category: Opinion
Opinion
The Righteous Mind: Part 1
By Gabrielle Deubendorfer
Reader Contributor
I feel compelled to respond to Mr. Rose’s letter to the editor of Jan. 11, in which he claims that Mr. Libby’s LTE of Dec. …
Mad About Science: Celiac’s Disease
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Confession time, 7B. Recently, I got a surprising diagnosis after a very long time of chronic health issues. Any diagnosis that ends a sentence with …
Use your words (before your genitals)
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
When comedian Aziz Ansari became the latest recipient of a sexual misconduct allegation, it took me a few days before I opened the story.…
Mike’s Corner: Rain
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
I’ve always liked the rain, listening to it dance on a tin roof or watching the steam rise off that roof after it quits and …
On The Lake: ‘Does anyone else think that drilling for silica in the Lake Pend Oreille watershed is a terrible idea?’
By Shannon Williamson
Reader Columnist
As some of you may have read in the Bee earlier this month, a Montana-based company called Pend Oreille Silica Inc. is looking to do …
Mahatma Gandhi’s profound influence on Martin Luther King
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
Christ furnished the spirit and motivation, while Gandhi furnished the method.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent …
Emily Articulated: Who wants to play… ‘Dating as a Millennial?’
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
You’re sitting in the hot seat, sweat beading in your palms. The audience is looming over you and the heat of the light beams feels …
NCHOPS: The building blocks of life
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
I was thumbing through a biology textbook the other day and stumbled upon the periodic chart. You remember it: the big, scary, multi-colored banner of …
An Open Letter: To the Bonner County Board of Commissioners in opposition of the Natural Resource Plan
By Kirk Sehlmeyer
Reader Contributor
Dear Commissioners,
My name is Kirk Sehlmeyer, and I live in Bonner County. Thank you for the opportunity to provide comments and express my opposition …
Letters
- Sandpoint’s resolve… Dear Editor, Last Wednesday I asked the council to withdraw the Resolution Affirming the City of Sandpoint’s Commitment to Human Rights and Non-Discrimination. I had proposed the resolution because I felt it was important for the City to take a symbolic stance affirming our compassion for those fleeing extreme violence and ...
- Disappointed… Dear Editor, I was dismayed to hear that Mayor Rognstad buckled under pressure and took his proposal to welcome the Syrian refugees off of the table. “Welcome Back to the White Homeland!” I hear the voices of the dissenters in my head: “We hate everyone who is not like us. If you look different, ...
- How would you like the world to be? Dear Editor, I dreamed about us. All of us. Under the stars, silent, deeply troubled people sat around a small fire on a very long night. Then the fire became the burning heart of Earth and around it the firelit face of every human soul. The world’s pain upon us, the ...
- The Harm in Fear… Dear Editor, Recently, concerned parents shut down a Virginia school when a teacher tried to introduce students to Islam. Similarly, Linda Dunn, in her editorial, does not want Islam “even talked about” in our schools. Muslims inhabit twenty-two percent of earth. If we let fear rule, and refuse to know and understand ...
- Blanket Statement… Dear Editor, In response to a letter from last week, some Christians may wish to reconsider their blanket statements condemning “these people”, presumably Muslim refugees. Most U.S. terrorist attacks have been perpetrated by Christians: Wade Michael Page murdered six; Jim David Adkisson shot nine, killing two; Eric Rudolph used guns and ...
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Special Report
TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022.
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WHERE ARE THE WORKERS?: Five-part series, September-October 2021.
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THE AMERICAN REDOUBT: Seven-part series, November-December 2017.
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STANDOFF AT RUBY RIDGE: 25 Years Later. Five-part series, August-September 2017.
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Community Calendars
Coming up this week! Don’t miss the Banff Film Festival, CHAFE150 Registration, the Reader Community Party, and more! See the full list of events in the Community Calendars:
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Sandpoint in Pictures
Filmmaker Jimmy Matlosz of the Idaho Film Company has made a series of mini documentaries about influential Sandpoint locals, including the late Dann Hall and Erik Daarstad as well as icons Diane Michaels and Dan Shook. He is currently working on a series of interviews connected to the history of the Panida Theater. Jimmy is a 30-year veteran filmmaker who’s work can be seen at dpmatlosz.com.
