Emily Articulated: Growing up
By Emily Erickson Reader Staff One of the first things I did after moving to Sandpoint was enter a writing contest. I was pulled to the library by a flyer tacked to a posterboard...
Category: Opinion
The 2025 legislative session in summary
By Sen. Jim Woodward, R-Sagle Reader Contributor The first regular session of the 68th Idaho Legislature adjourned April 5. The session spanned 89 days — typical in length, although 15 days beyond the target...
A Few Thoughts… On the power of consent
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist I turned 74 last week, and I’m thinking of turning away from political commentary. I have tried for 25-plus years to get people to think for themselves about who...
Lifestyles of the rich and worthless
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Most sources credit Jean-Jacques Rousseau with writing, “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.” No one knows for certain whether he actually...
Cleaning up the Kootenai River and holding polluters accountable
By Jennifer Ekstrom Reader Staff Mountaintop removal coal mines near Fernie, British Columbia, have long polluted the Kootenai River in Idaho. For decades, the gorgeous Rocky Mountains have been blasted to exploit coal, with...
Double whammy
By Brendan Kelty Naples Reader Contributor I was dismayed reading in the March 13 edition the Reader about the current financial troubles at the James E. Russell Sports Center at Travers Park due to...
Fake news and the rule of law
By Justin Henney Reader Contributor I wonder if Donald Trump goes to bed at night and is surprised at how easy it is for him to sell much of the American people untruths as...
Protecting Our Idaho Waters
By Sen. Jim Woodward, R-Sagle Reader Contributor For decades, water has been on the mind of every farmer, rancher and landowner along the Snake River in southern Idaho. There is competition between agricultural uses...
Do you believe in the Constitution?
By Timothy Braatz Reader Staff The U.S. Constitution, written in 1787, is a brief instructional manual, sketching out a federal government, what it can and cannot do — a barebones blueprint. Not much to...
Imagine the opposite
By Ben Olson Reader Staff One of my favorite classes in college was Logic and Critical Thinking. In that course, I learned how to obtain a larger and more complete view of the world...
