Rep. Lauren Necochea, D-Boise
Reader Contributor
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Budgets are moral documents,” because they show our real values. Allocating our public dollars demands thoughtful, transparent deliberations. …
By Diana Dawson
Reader Contributor
I was 16 when I had my first transformative political experience. It was 1967 and I had been selected as an American Field Service student. …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Contributor
I never played any Dungeons & Dragons as a kid, but I always wished I did.
When I rolled that famous 20-sided die for the …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
The mark of an incredible game is the ability to return to it in different moods and stages of life and have the experience be …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
The experienced cinephile, or anyone who was a teenage girl in 2013, will be familiar with Howard Shore’s astounding soundtracks to The Lord of the …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Hot Springs People. If you know, you know.
While there aren’t any natural hot springs in our immediate region, drive a couple hours in any …
Rep. Lauren Necochea, D-Boise
Reader Contributor
If we truly valued our children, we would ensure they spend their days in safe school buildings. But decades of neglect have caused Idaho …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Recently, upon a Christmas tidings visit to the Reader office, Publisher Ben Olson asked me a perfectly polite and simple question. It was something along …
Welcome to the third annual Sandpoint Reader 208 Fiction contest, in which we invited any and all writers to submit a work of fiction totaling exactly 208 words for consideration …
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
It’s time to write something clever about the new year. Or at least something. We get an extra day in 2024, and we get to …
TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022.
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WHERE ARE THE WORKERS?: Five-part series, September-October 2021.
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THE AMERICAN REDOUBT: Seven-part series, November-December 2017.
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STANDOFF AT RUBY RIDGE: 25 Years Later. Five-part series, August-September 2017.
GO READ IT»
Curious about what media the locals use? Check our 2018 Local Media Survey. GO SEE »
Coming up this week! Don’t miss Concerts, Dance Madness, Follies Adjacent, and more! See the full list of events in the Community Calendars:
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