Mayor’s Roundtable: An honor to serve
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...
Category: Opinion
Some thoughts on guns at the Festival
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...
Raising Idaho’s minimum wage is only the beginning. Next, bailout the workers
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...
The Mueller Report: A “Short” Form
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...
Starting high school
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...
Point/Counterpoint: Gun rights
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...
Considering a run for public office? Please read
By Shannon Williamson Reader Contributor The city of Sandpoint is one of a kind. I would like to say that we have it all here. That wouldn’t necessarily be true, but we have a...
Methinks thou dost protest too much
By Tim Bearly Reader Contributor “He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, “Beyond Good and Evil,” 1886 The movement, like all social movements, started...
Notes from a first-year Festival volunteer
By George Alexander Wood Jr. Reader Contributor It is long past midnight, and I am doggone exhausted. My sweaty volunteer shirt, civilian clothes and Production Crew polo hit the floor in time with me...
A newcomer’s guide to Sandpoint
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Every summer for the past 37 years, the Festival at Sandpoint has raised its iconic white tent and drawn folks from all over the country to our little corner...
