The legislative roller coaster
By Rep. Steve Berch, D-Boise
Reader Contributor
When I started my first term in 2019, nearly every long-time Capitol observer told me it was the worst legislative session they ever …
Category: Opinion
Opinion
Legislative update: Where did the money come from?
By Sen. Jim Woodward
Reader Contributor
A major task each legislative session is creating and approving a plan for how we will spend our state tax dollars in the upcoming …
Rent, buy, sell: That big boom feeling
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
It’s hard to live in the greater Sandpoint area and not feel the pulsing boom of the newcomers, home-buyers, rental-seekers, land-sellers and everyone stuck somewhere …
Ice Ages: A boy and his dad go ice fishing
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Regarding the many forms of fishing, I’ve already made clear my lack of real success or skill. Still, it’s an activity I enjoy. The other …
An open letter on VA health care
By Jodi Rawson
Reader Contributor
Dear President Joe Biden,
There are more than two parties, let’s face it. There is another major party — something like a C.E.O.cracy. Led by …
The time is right for the Idaho Working Families Agenda
By Reps. Lauren Necochea, D-Boise, and Colin Nash, D-Boise
Reader Contributors
Work, family and our children. These are the values embedded in the Idaho Working Families Agenda that House Democrats …
Conspiracy theories hold us back while we should be ‘spiraling to higher ground’
By Adrian Murillo
Reader Contributor
While reading Jill Trick’s article on conspiracies [Perspectives, “On conspiracies: truth and relativity,” Feb. 18] I worried where she was going. Then she quoted Alan …
Mayor’s Roundtable:
By Mayor Shelby Rognstad
Reader Contributor
Sandpoint and the region is at a critical moment right now. Idaho continues to be the fastest growing state in the nation and the …
A few thoughts on surviving COVID-19
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
I promised myself I would write something light and funny this month. But then, I went to town. I hadn’t been for a while. I’d …
On conspiracies: truth and relativity
By Jill Trick
Reader Contributor
I appreciate the Reader including complex topics in your paper. Your article “Down the rabbit hole,” (Feb. 4) addresses some that definitely deserve discussion. I …
Letters
- Need EIS for BNSF Bridges … Dear Editor, I am asking that the United States Coast Guard do a full Environmental Impact Statement in the hope that it will show that three new railroad bridges adjacent to the existing ones across Lake Pend Oreille near Sandpoint, ID will too greatly contaminate the water quality, lake bottom and ...
- Need Analysis of BNSF Second Bridge Project… Dear Editor, I am disappointed the Reader has not done a more critical analysis of BNSF’s enormous Second Bridge project. Safety and congestion issues are just a BNSF public relations ploy on its proposed second bridge across Lake Pend Oreille. Have any of you looked at their draft permit (online) which ...
- Responsibilities of County Commissioners… Dear Editor, I recently read in a local paper that the county commissioners adopted a resolution, of their own making, opposing a wilderness designation for Scotchman’s Peaks and also called out the U.S. Forest Service to cease managing the ground as recommended wilderness. First, I would like to include a link to ...
- Liberals Need to Develop a Sense of Humor… Dear Editor, I normally do not respond to negative articles about SPORTS, a premier fire and police association and social club I am privileged to serve as club president, or the greater law enforcement community. But Lawrence Fury’s 5-18-2018 article demeaning military and police needs to be addressed. Liberals need to develop ...
- R.I.P. Cecil Taylor… Dear Editor, All who have seen Cecil Taylor, like him or not, never forget the experience. Cecil is arguably the greatest pianist to ever live. I think so. Pianist Cecil Taylor (March 25, 1929 – April 5, 2018), a pioneer of free jazz and icon of the avant-garde for more than half ...
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TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022.
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Community Calendars
Happy Monday! There’s plenty to do this week including: the a Live Comedy Show, Timberfest, Sandpoint Ren Faire, a New Old Time Chautauqua, 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.
