208 Youth Writing Contest
Is creativity a thing of the past? As an English teacher of 12 years, I have read many young writers’ attempts to create original, cohesive or at least comprehensible writing. Think back and you...
Category: Opinion
It makes sense, unfortunately
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff The first 12 months of Donald Trump’s second term as U.S. president have been a bonanza for historians. Comparisons and analogies abound, and the “history repeats itself” cliche is doing...
Jack Smith deposition gives insight into failed effort to hold Trump accountable
By Ben OlsonReader Staff While the nation popped champagne corks and checked out for the long holiday weekend on Dec. 31, 2025, House Republicans quietly released the transcript of special counsel Jack Smith’s Dec....
Stranger Things ends with a hefty dose of nostalgia for nostalgia
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff It was probably never meant to be that Stranger Things would end on a tone of universal acclaim. No show can sustain nearly a decade of cultural juggernaut status without...
Legislative update
Looking ahead to the 2026 session By Rep. Mark Sauter, R-SandpointReader Contributor Greetings, Monday, Jan. 12 is the start of the 2026 Idaho legislative session. However, a more than usual amount of legislative activity...
208 Fiction 2026 contest results
Here we present the winners of the fifth annual Sandpoint Reader 208 Fiction contest, in which we invited writers to submit a work of fiction totaling exactly 208 words for consideration by a panel...
Medicaid expansion cuts threaten access to care for everyone
By Hillarie MatlockReader Contributor People without health insurance are human and they still get sick. When they get very sick, they go to emergency rooms, like everyone else. Without Medicaid expansion, the cost of...
Top TV of 2025
Or at least the shows I especially liked By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Putting together these end-of-year summary articles is always a somewhat fraught exercise. When it comes to something like “TV shows of the...
2026 year in preview
What could be in the coming year By Reader Staff While it may be a fool’s errand to predict the future, we’ve been doing it at the Reader every year since 2020 — getting...
Emily Articulated: Thirteen magical nights
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist It is said there is a stretch of time — 13 nights — beginning at the winter solstice, when the veil between worlds is the thinnest. It’s a time for...
