Living Life: Country trauma and healing
By Dianne Smith Reader Columnist Once again our country is in a state of acute stress. We’ve experienced something so horrific that we struggle to make sense of it and cannot. This traumatic experience...
Category: Opinion
Lunch with the Mayor: An open invitation to the public (part II)
By Shelby Rognstad Reader Contributor This article is the second installment of a four-part series through October describing my goals and priorities as mayor of Sandpoint. Those are: 1) Engage the public to address...
Buckeye State Charter School fraud coming to Idaho charter school near you
By Levi B. Cavener Reader Contributor One can’t blame the Albertson Foundation for wanting to avoid an appearance that it continues meddling in public affairs. After spending years in an effort meant to undermine...
Wildlife habitat and forest management important to consider
By Stan Myers Reader Contributor It was greatly surprising that in his lengthy and thoughtful essay on wilderness and wildlife management in Idaho, Al Van Vooren made no reference to the significant January 2017...
Understanding the Human Microbiome
By Jodi Rawson Reader Contributor Back in biology class, in the late ‘90s, I learned that our bodies were made of cells containing tiny “brains” called nuclei, with 46 chromosomes. Every cell that made...
Mahatma Gandhi: Charismatic saint of nonviolence
Mohandas K. Gandhi, better known as the Mahatma (“great soul”), would have been 148 years old on Oct. 2. I would like to take the occasion of his birthday to reflect on what it means to be a saint.
Single in Sandpoint: I’m still here…
By Scarlette Quille Reader Columnist First, I’d like to address the rumor that this column is not running any more; obviously, that is a rumor, as you are reading the column. I’ve written this...
Lunch with the Mayor: An open invitation to the public (pt. 1)
By Shelby Rognstad Reader Contributor This is the first of four weekly articles during the month of October describing my goals and priorities for the city of Sandpoint. This series is in preparation for...
Living Life: Helping children in troubled times
By Dianne Smith Reader Columnist As grownups, we, too, have been traumatized by the recent events in the world, and with the recent school shooting in Spokane it hit really close to home. We...
The Toad Highway and Troy Mine Site
By Kathleen Clayton Reader Contributor They’re green or brown and covered by warts. They have bulging eyes with horizontal slits. And heck, they don’t even hop. Even so, the western toad gets a highway...
