The Baloney Detective
By Tim Bearly
Reader Contributor
Images of an Orwellian dystopia are often evoked when we hear the term “big government.” The mere uttering of the phrase can function as a …
Category: Opinion
Opinion
Touched by the change
By Robin Lantrip
Reader Contributor
It started with a brisk chill in the morning air. The meadow began dressing in longer birch and fir shadows. The evening scent held a …
Language: Observations from a crotchety, grumpety, old physics prof
By Philip A. Deutchman
Reader Contributor
Would you think that language has anything at all to do with sound, rhythm or musicality? Take English, for example. It has been my …
Working toward civil discourse
By Brenda Hammond
Reader Contributor
The Bonner County Human Rights Task Force recently sent a questionnaire to all the candidates for city office, asking their positions on a number of …
‘Clean’ external audit report for LPOSD and update on accountability
By Tom Albertson
Reader Contributor
As we approach Nov. 5, Election Day, it is timely for me to share with you the financial accountability report presented at the Oct. 22 …
Local elections matter: Vote Nov. 5
By Luke Malek
Special to the Reader
As sure as you see the jack-o-lanterns appear on porches around your neighborhood, fall is in the air, and with it comes Election …
Mayor’s Roundtable: United by our values
By Mayor Shelby Rognstad
Reader Contributor
Sandpoint is a community characterized by engaged citizenship. With more than 300 registered nonprofits, ours is a community of people who care. This is …
Bless this hunt: The many ways we prepare for a successful elk season
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Last Sunday, I found myself at Christ Our Redeemer Lutheran Church for the Blessing of the Hunters. I saw the event online, advertised as a …
Finding courage: We need to take back our power
By Jane Hoover
Reader Contributor
Courage comes from the willingness to be vulnerable. I look at people who write editorials and think that they are brave people no matter if …
Road Reflections: Fall 2019
By Steve Klatt
Special to the Reader
Overseeing a county road operation has some remarkable resemblance to surviving as a small farm operator. You take stock of the conditions in …
Letters
- Shooting could have been avoided… Earlier this month an incident took place in Sandpoint where a law enforcement officer used deadly force in the execution of his duties. Sad to say, but this confrontation was easily avoidable. I’m not for one minute saying the use of deadly force was not justified. Quite the opposite, it ...
- Electrical hypersensitivity follow up… Dear Editor, Thank you so much for covering the story of electrohypersensitivity . As a follow up to the happenings of it in my life, the new meter; a non-two way communicating I-tron meter was put in but I’m still feeling pressure in my inner ears, and ...
- Just like Laura… Dear Editor, Several hundred people, or so it appeared, showed up last Sunday afternoon on a grassy knoll on Lakeshore Drive to celebrate Laura Bry’s life of goodwill and good work. She had died of a heart attack at 53. As we listened to and empathized with the emotional tributes from ...
- Highway 200 roadside cutting wrong… Dear Editor, They are the minions of the Sarnonian, Darth Vadian, and Voldemortian absolute worst agency in our state—those who do the dirty work for the ID(I)OT Machine. I usually include that middle “I” when describing this arrogant and seemingly all-powerful government agency—the Idaho Department of Transportation. I rarely know, and ...
- Sandpoint Lions Club gives thanks… Dear Editor, The Sandpoint Lions Club would like to take this opportunity to thank Schweitzer Mountain Resort and Papé Machinery for their participation in this year’s Independence Day Celebration. Without the generous gift on a 2015/2016 season ski pass and Papé’s assistance in purchasing a John Deere Gator, the Lions Club would ...
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WHERE ARE THE WORKERS?: Five-part series, September-October 2021.
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Community Calendars
Enjoy summer! A Film Series, a Music Series, an Arts and Crafts Fair, and non-motorized sprint races … This week has it all. See all this weeks events in the Community Calendars:
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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»
