The refugee question:
(Editor’s Note: This is a point / counterpoint article by Ken Meyers and Dan McDonald.) By Ken Meyers Reader Contributor Two events are on a collision course. One is the refugee crisis produced by...
Category: Opinion
Taxi Tales:
By Louie de Palma Reader Road Warrior It’s pretty damn hard sometimes to know the right thing to do. If you’re presented with the option to buy a known conflict diamond, most people probably...
Impacting the Community:
By Donna Brundage Reader Contributor It is sometimes overwhelming for an organization created to defend against discrimination, irrationally based hatred and open bigotry to function within an orchestrated culture of fear. While the role...
Let’s welcome Syrian refugees to the Palouse
By Nick Gier Reader Staff On November 21, an estimated 700 people participated in a “Rally for Solidarity with Refugees in Idaho” at the Statehouse. A friend who attended said that “the crowd enthusiastically...
Good job, you princes of Sandpoint
By Tim Henney Reader Staff On Friday night, Nov. 13, the civilized world shuddered. One hundred and thirty people were slaughtered and 350 or more hospitalized in Paris by ISIS murderers. The next day...
The Worst of Circumstances:
By Zach Hagadone Reader Contributor As surely as the sun rises and winter leads to snow, trust in Idaho leaders to stumble over themselves in a race to be counted on the wrong side...
Taxi Tales:
By Louie de Palma Reader Road Warrior I made a wrong turn into a seemingly ordinary driveway. And you’ll never guess what I found at the end of it. OK, this s not a...
Landslide victory for Burmese Opposition Party:
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist The Burmese National League for Democracy (NLD) is celebrating a huge election victory. Early results show that the NLD has already won 256 of 299 seats, and it is...
The Sandpoint Eater:
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist For the past six or eight months, I’d tried to plan an annual sojourn to the Davenport Hotel with longtime Missoula friends, Lynda and Helga. Sadly, each trip...
The Ladies of the Day: An encore
By Tim Henney Reader Staff My 1957 bride, Jacquelynn, and I once lived in Logan, Utah, a college town. The university president’s name was Kermit, like the famous frog. The president, however, was tall,...
