Republican budget procedures don’t add up
By Lauren Necochea
Reader Contributor
Our state budget determines what we invest in and who we prioritize. It is crafted by Idaho’s Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee, which includes both House and …
Category: Opinion
Opinion
Anti-fascist films that hit just right
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Publisher’s note: This article contains spoilers.
Perhaps it was Elon Musk’s Hitler salute at President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Maybe it’s the endless waves of authoritarian …
Codes giving city planner sole power to reduce development’s parking spaces must change
By Bonner County Republican Women, Inc.
Reader Contributors
In late 2024, without input from the City Council or the public, Sandpoint Community Planning and Development Director Jason Welker — with …
Reckless Republican revenue cuts hurt everyday Idahoans
By Lauren Necochea
Reader Contributor
State revenue funds the building blocks of a strong economy and protects our quality of life. Public schools and career training prepare the next generation. …
Oat milk and the truthfulness paradigm
By Mariela Rebelo
Reader Contributor
I’ve been thinking about truthfulness a lot lately. Mainly because lying and being lied to is apparently being normalized now, and we are at risk …
Dumb of the week
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Perhaps, in a decade or two, we’ll look back on this time period and shake our heads softly, saying, “It was a strange time to …
‘Hey, Rube’
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
When I was a cub reporter at the Associated Press, stationed in the bowels of the pre-renovation Idaho Capitol, circa 2003, we had a CRT …
Legislative update: Concerns about process at the Capitol
By Rep. Mark Sauter, R-Sandpoint
Reader Contributor
Greetings. The Legislature is in its 10th week. Nearly 400 House bills and 170 Senate bills have been introduced. Approximately 70 resolutions and …
Emily Articulated: I worried
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
I’m not sure exactly when I became a worrier. Maybe it was dormant throughout a tumultuous childhood and brazen, chaotic 20s. My worry couldn’t have …
Idaho leaders are acting against the will of the people
By Bob McKeon
Reader Contributor
Well, are you all paying attention yet? Fifty million of our tax dollars just got stripped from us and our underfunded public schools by our …
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 ...
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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 Egg Hunts, a Play, a Shoreline Cleanup, Fundraising, 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.
