Changing Your Mind:
By Suzen Fiskin Reader Columnist You’re going about your day minding your own business. You go to the mailbox and discover that you spaced out on paying your credit card bill. Fill in your...
Category: Opinion
Communication Breakdown:
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Last week, the Sandpoint City Council considered a resolution they characterized as a declaration of human rights and tolerance. A statement welcoming properly vetted refugees into Sandpoint, the resolution...
Bayard Rustin:
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist As a politically active black man in 1950s and 1960s, Bayard Rustin had, in addition to his race, three strikes against him: he was a pacifist; he was a...
Stay away from killer toasters
By Jen Heller Reader Contributor This morning, I woke up and immediately subjected myself to some very risky behaviors. I made toast. I drove to work. And I walked up two steps to unlock...
Taxi Tales:
By Louie de Palma Reader Road Warrior Two days into the new year I find myself parked at the Dairy Depot drive-through while a very belligerent customer of mine loudly demands a can of...
Changing Your Mind:
By Suzen Fiskin Reader Columnist What is it about the dawning of a shiny new year that makes us hunger to be a better version of ourselves? Our compulsion for do-overs gave rise to...
Single in Sandpoint:
By Scarlette Quille Reader Columnist I am always behind. The fact that another year has passed by, and we are on the brink of starting a new year will not hit me until mid-February....
The Genocide of the Hazaras:
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist “All Shias are liable to be killed. We will rid Pakistan of [this] impure people. Pakistan means land of the pure, and the Shia have no right to live...
Volunteer Spotlight:
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Two years ago, Savannah Mort asked her husband what he wanted for his birthday. She had no idea his request would end up launching a soup kitchen that fed...
Top films of 2015
By Chris Balboni Reader Film Contributor It’s just after Christmas and I have yet to see The Force Awakens because, despite me being a huge fan of Star Wars since childhood, there are roughly...
