Use Idaho’s excess revenues to save lives, not more money
By Sen. Melissa Witntrow, D-Boise
Special to the Reader
What if you were hanging on the edge of a cliff and your friend leaned down and started rapping hard on …
Category: Opinion
Opinion
The caduceus
By Kathleen Huntley
Reader Contributor
When he was barely 18, and unable to vote in this country, my late husband had a caduceus tattooed on his upper right arm. He …
Emily Articulated
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
Well, it’s official. The year of curveball after curveball, of perpetually adapting to the unknown, and during which the unprecedented steadily became precedent, is coming …
The bow box
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Like so many naive and ever-so-slightly conceited teenage girls growing up in the 2000s, I had a blog.
It was a free WordPress domain with …
Somewhere over the rainbow
By Jeff Bohnhof
Reader Contributor
As I was growing up, I always knew that I was different. Not in a bad way, but I was always pretty much a loner. …
Mayor’s Roundtable: Democracy endures
By Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad
Reader Contributor
I’d like to take a moment to reflect on what I have to be grateful for this holiday season. I’m grateful for the …
Seasons: Not what they used to be
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
I am planning to get married next July. I say “planning to” because I fear that printing definitives about anything personal and happy will tempt …
A dog walk in the park
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
My 1957 Cal-Berkeley bride is staring 86 in the face and has an underlying medical condition, which makes her a COVID-19 magnet. I am 89 …
Emily Articulated
By Emily Erickson
Reader Staff
Not long ago, I was having one of “those days.” It was the kind of morning that started with a coffee burn on my tongue …
Mask order is no attack on freedom
By Cynthia Dalsing
Reader Contributor
I take issue with Steven Bradshaw, Bonner County commissioner, after his recent diatribe against a public mask mandate by the Panhandle Health Department [News, “Education, …
Letters
- SASi needs your help… Dear Editor, Thank you for your weekly publication. I so enjoy all the articles, photos, etc. I would like you to publish this letter asking for funds for the Senior Center. The Center is a 501(c) non-profit corporation and if anyone has not already tapped out on their contributions for the year, ...
- An Appeal to Reason Redux… Dear Editor, Most proposed gun control laws would not address the concerns in the Deutchmans’ letter of last week. State and federal background checks of firearms purchasers are done by liscensed gun dealers, but we should require checks of private purchasers, and better address the missing mental/criminal records not currently available ...
- Sandpoint should accept all colors, creeds, origin… Dear Editor, I’m new to Sandpoint. I moved here a little more than a year ago on a piece of advice from someone I barely knew at the time. Unlike many people who I have met here, I do not have a lifetime of history and experience in this place. Like ...
- County land use woes… Dear Editor, I have been reading with concern the stories of firings and demotions in the county planning department, changes to the planning and zoning appeals process, and the growing loopholes for building location permits. Coming on the heels of a conversation with Commissioner Sudick regarding his disdain for the current codes, ...
- The refugees are coming… Dear Editor, It doesn’t take much to bring the Chicken Littles outta the woodwork. Instead of screaming “the sky is falling”, these wussies are now screaming “the refugees are coming, the refugees are coming”. From our County Commissioners and Heather Scott to the Boise crowd, the political arena in Idaho is ...
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
Enjoy another week in Sandpoint. With the Annual Heart Ball, auditions for The Sound of Music, and a Birthday Art show, you have a variety of options. Don’t forget Follies tickets go on sale this week. See the full list of events in the Community Calendars:
⋅ ENTERTAINMENT EVENTS»
⋅ CIVIC EVENTS»
⋅ MOVIE SHOWTIMES»
⋅ SPORTS & OUTDOOR EVENTS»
⋅ YEAR CALENDAR»
Sandpoint in Pictures
Videography Jimmy Matlosz is making mini-documentaries, aka “mini docs” of notable Sandpoint persons. So far subjects have included cinematographer Erik Daarstaad, broadcaster Diane Michaels and man-of-many-talents Dan Shook. Latest is photographer Dann Hall. Go watch them at The Idaho Film Company»
