By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Last Sunday, I found myself at Christ Our Redeemer Lutheran Church for the Blessing of the Hunters. I saw the event online, advertised as a chance to “receive your...
By Jane Hoover Reader Contributor Courage comes from the willingness to be vulnerable. I look at people who write editorials and think that they are brave people no matter if I agree with their...
By Steve Klatt Special to the Reader Overseeing a county road operation has some remarkable resemblance to surviving as a small farm operator. You take stock of the conditions in spring, as mud squishes...
By Christine Holbert Reader Contributor I recently spent six weeks in Ukraine, visiting family, traveling and promoting the new Lost Horse Press Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series at the Lviv Book Forum and elsewhere. That...
By Mayor Shelby Rognstad Reader Contributor It has been an incredible honor and privilege to serve as mayor of Sandpoint. This is a particularly important time as the city is carrying out its 2017...
By James Baldree Reader Contributor Concerning the “controversy” over guns at the Festival, can we at least agree on a couple of points? Pro-gunners, given today’s realities, if the Festival loses the ability to...
By Daniel Radford Reader Contributor Many people I’ve spoken with lately have been understandably peeved (pissed may be a more apt description) at the government’s “theft” of their wages. However, for all the anger...
By Philip A. Deutchman Reader Contributor I have read the two-volume, 448-page Mueller Report, entitled, “Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election,” by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, released...
By Dinah Rawson Reader Contributor I’m starting classes at Sandpoint High School next week and, honestly, I’m terrified. There is so much pressure we face as teenagers — from the mysterious world of social...
Carrying in public places: ‘Better to have it and not need it’ By Steve Wasylko Reader Contributor The short answer is “yes,” I would feel safe at the Festival knowing concertgoers were potentially armed. I...
