The rise of the Religious Left in America
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist “Jesus, a brown-skinned Palestinian Jew, called us to preach good news to the poor, the broken, the bruised, and all those who are made to feel unaccepted.” —Rev. William...
Category: Opinion
Progress on animal rights across the world
By Nick Gier Reader Contributor “If a human four-year-old has what it takes for legal personhood, then a chimpanzee should be able to be a legal person, too.” —Harvard Lecturer Steven Wise Many cracks have appeared...
Love sucks: History’s tragic lovers
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Throw a rock at a stack of Shakespeare plays and you’ll undoubtedly hit a doomed lover or two in the process. But stories of tragic love are not reserved...
Is Idaho’s largest lake ready for another rail bridge?
By Matt Nykiel Reader Contributor Local conservationists are asking the U.S. Coast Guard to do a better job of identifying and mitigating the risks that will come along with building a new railroad bridge...
To ski or not to ski
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Contributor We are blessed to live with a world-class ski area in our backyard. At least, that’s what people say. Schweitzer is some of the best skiing Idaho has...
This week at the Capitol
By Sen. Maryanne Jordan Reader Contributor Rep. Sue Chew is helping fight soaring drug prices by expanding who can donate unused medications and what organizations can receive them. On Monday, an Amendment to the...
Billionaires: heroes or zeroes?
By Jodi Rawson Reader Contributor Billionaires only began to exist around a century ago, starting with “oil magnate” John D. Rockefeller in 1916. Today there are around 2,500 billionaires, and they still skim the...
Win $100 with our 2019 media survey
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Every year around this time, the Sandpoint Reader teams up with SandpointOnline to host a media survey. We try to ask as many people as we can which forms...
Back from the dead
It was four years ago this week that the Reader came back from newspaper purgatory. Founded in 2004, the first iteration of the Reader published every week for over eight years until owners Zach...
Wolf traps should be placed further from trails
By Gabrielle Duebendorfer Reader Contributor One of my dogs recently got caught in a wolf trap for the second time in the last few years. The first time it was a snare around her...
