By David Phillips Reader Contributor Recently, the city of Sandpoint launched Engage Sandpoint, making use of the service SeeClickFix.com. I was intrigued by this, being a long-time software geek and early adopter. I created...
By Scott Taylor Reader Columnist French philosopher Rene Descartes famously said “I think, therefore I am.” (Actually, he probably said “Je pense, donc je suis,” unless he made a habit of spitting out philosophical...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The past week has just been awful in America. A man who killed two people in a Kentucky grocery store last Wednesday allegedly entered a predominantly black church just...
By Sen. Shawn Keough Reader Contributor The official voters’ guide from the State of Idaho for November’s ballot contains several arguments against Proposition 2 (Medicaid Expansion) that are false or misleading. Among them: that...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff •Your gas tank should always be at least half full •Never take a phone call during dinner •Pack your rifle with the scope tucked under your armpit These are...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist The Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,” and that they have “the right to life, liberty...
By Phil Hough Reader Staff We launched our canoe into strong head winds and waves. Forward progress was slow, so we camped early, on a muddy shore only five miles from the start. Smoke...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Contributor Dear Robo-Caller, Let’s be clear: Ben Olson is a degenerate, as your recent robocall impugning him and the Sandpoint Reader put it. He’s much less a degenerate now than...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist The Centers for Disease Control has just released preliminary data on sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and they show a dramatic increase in infections over four years. In 2017, there...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist The world’s richest large country, the city on a hill, seems to be coming apart. —The Economist(6/14/18) In 2011 British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett released the second...
