Fighting hate groups
By K.L. Huntley
Reader Contributor
Icy roads and a chill blowing down the snow-covered mountains didn’t deter close to 60 souls gathered at Sandpoint’s First Presbyterian Church on the evening …
By K.L. Huntley
Reader Contributor
Icy roads and a chill blowing down the snow-covered mountains didn’t deter close to 60 souls gathered at Sandpoint’s First Presbyterian Church on the evening …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Things are bad, folks. I say this not as a partisan for any particular political party, but as a son raised in a fuzzy melange …
By Adrian Murillo
Reader Contributor
The time has come to praise our own unique Sandpoint sound of democracy and equality throwing it down every Monday night. I’m talking about the …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
This past week, while getting barraged by the whirlwind of local and national political fanfare, I found a foothold in positive political engagement by revisiting …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
In the nearly eight years I’ve been at the helm of this newspaper, one constant remains as a motivating reason why we do what we …
By Drs. Amelia and Vince Huntsberger
Reader Contributors
The Idaho Legislature has enacted some of the strictest abortion laws in the country. The “total abortion ban” went into effect on …
By Nishelle Gonzales
Reader Contributor
I want to begin by celebrating and acknowledging how amazing the United States is. I know that “We’re Number One!” rhetoric is an instant eye …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
I’m a dog person.
Most people can make assertions about what kind of person that makes me, and they’d likely be right. I am outgoing, …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
We’ve rounded out the last week of our trip abroad with stops in Copenhagen, Hamburg and Amsterdam. In these cities, history is not only found …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
My grandma was a puzzler. Not necessarily in personality — though some others may disagree — but in the sense that she liked brain teasers. …
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