The Lumberjill:
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
The Pro-Voice Project, a stage production of personal stories of reproductive choice, hits the Heartwood Center stage on Saturday, Jan. 28. I invite you …
Category: Opinion
Opinion
Emily Articulated
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
There are periods of time when I allow myself to “check out” of current affairs. It’s a purposeful ignorance I adopt when heaviness is already …
Lessons we can still learn from Dr. King
By Nishelle Gonzales
Reader Contributor
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is known for dedicating his life to the Civil Rights Movement. Every third Monday of January we are called and …
Higher-density housing is coming — want to have your say?
By Cate Huisman
Reader Contributor
By now it’s well known that housing is beyond a quandary for Sandpoint. People who have lived and worked here for years have lost their …
‘My taxes have gone through the roof!’
By Michael Rosedale
Reader Contributor
Editor’s note: The Reader has been hearing from property owners across Bonner County that they saw exorbitant increases to their property taxes during the last …
Mayor’s Roundtable
By Mayor Shelby Rognstad
Reader Contributor
This is the fourth article in the series detailing recommendations that came out of the city of Sandpoint’s Housing and Economic Study developed by …
Emily Articulated: New Year’s intentions
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
There are times when it is appropriate for a person to be resolved, to be “firmly determined to do something.” A resolution is a venture …
The year in re- and preview
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
We’re just going to get this one out of the way at the top. Since 2020, when we started doing these annual review/previews, we included …
Mayor’s Roundtable: The city lot
By Mayor Shelby Rognstad
Reader Contributor
This is the third piece in a six-part series discussing the Leland Report. The purpose of the report was to help guide the city …
Growing pains
By K.L. Huntley
Reader Contributor
A long, long time ago I lived in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in a town originally built during the gold rush of 1849. …
Letters
- Follies Article… Dear Editor, The events mentioned in an article written by Mr. Henney in the Easter publication of the Reader about myself were totally fabricated without my permission and have no basis in fact. I find his unsolicited use of my name and the content offensive. I neither cross-dress or use my ...
- College Athletes Need to Support Themselves… Dear Editor, I don’t agree with most of what contributor Nick Gier proposes or believes, but I do agree with him regarding UI athletics. The general budget should not be supporting athletic teams. These athletes (all of them) need to live on a budget like everyone else. They should base their expenditures ...
- Vietnam Vets Articles… Dear Editor, Thank you, Ben Olson, for the excellent interviews with local Vietnam veterans. This is Pulitzer Prize- worthy journalism. I also would like to thank the interviewees for telling their personal stories frankly, honestly, and no doubt reluctantly at times. I was captivated by these stories because I’m the same age ...
- Two Things… Dear Editor, 1. We have become a nation of wussies. We have replaced fear of our shadows with fear of immigrants. We have become such a nation of cowards that we run around like Chicken Little screaming “the immigrants are coming, the immigrants are coming” led by the example of our ...
- A Lot of Good Going on in Schools… Dear Editor, I am the principal at Washington Elementary School. I have a long history with this school district as many do—started in the first grade at Washington Elementary School in 1959 and graduated from SHS in 1971. I have worked in this district twice during my career starting in the ...
Reader in Print
Special Report
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.
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Community Calendars
Coming up this week! Don’t miss out on MarchFourth, A Reunion Concert, a Street Scramble... and more! See the full list of events in the Community Calendars:
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Sandpoint in Pictures
Filmmaker Jimmy Matlosz of the Idaho Film Company has made a series of mini documentaries about influential Sandpoint locals, including the late Dann Hall and Erik Daarstad as well as icons Diane Michaels and Dan Shook. He is currently working on a series of interviews connected to the history of the Panida Theater. Jimmy is a 30-year veteran filmmaker who’s work can be seen at dpmatlosz.com.
