Good stuff that happened in 2017
By Ben Olson Reader Staff It’s easy to get caught up in the negative news cycle of the modern age. Every day seems to be fraught with peril and doom, and there often seems...
Category: Opinion
When You’re Smiling: Part 1
By Tim Henney Reader Contriabutor It’s difficult to describe how powerful several bulging bookcases of vinyl, long-play records have been in shaping my life. A 1956 Cal-Berkeley co-ed has been central to this feeling...
The Sandpoint Eater: Recipes and Resolutions
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist Happy New Year! I missed the epic snowstorm last week, but with all the global updates and photos on my social media platforms, I truly felt the pain...
Mad About Science: Helium
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Helium, everyone’s second favorite party favor. Because let’s face it, you’re there for the cake, and the clown doesn’t even make the top 15. At a glance, helium seems...
The False Prohpet Motive: Greed is (not) good for the planet
By Tim Bearly Reader Contributor For countless millennia we homo sapiens have maintained our dominion over nature. We’ve penetrated every corner of the globe, cultivating plants and domesticating animals along the way. We’ve developed...
Smelter: When did it become OK…?
By Phyllis J. Kardos Reader Contributor When did it become OK for a massive industrial complex to entrench itself in the middle of rural residential properties and position itself to be built perilously close...
In Fine Fettle: Setting intention for changes
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist Perhaps Lao Tzu said it most plainly: “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” It’s that time of the year again....
Sandpoint and the Roman Empire
By Mark Reiner Reader Contributor My wife and I are two of those “back-to-the-land” hippies Ben referenced in one of the earlier “Redoubt” articles. A large portion of us moved back to the land...
How to read the newspaper in 2018
By Ben Olson Reader Staff If I’ve learned anything in the past three years of running this newspaper, it’s that I have so much to learn about the news industry. Given that attempts to...
Shake, Rattle and Roll: A column about the trials and tribulations of Parkinson’s Disease
By A.C. Woolnough Reader Columnist Researchers work on some incredible projects as they toil in relative obscurity in their cramped, underfunded labs trying to unlock the mysteries of the brain and neurological diseases like...
