Category: Opinion

Opinion

Opinion / Politics

24 Mar, 2023

Greetings from Boise: Property tax relief and BGH situation among the big Statehouse conversations

By Rep. Mark Sauter, R-Sandpoint
Reader Contributor

We are being told the 2023 legislative session is beginning to end. However, I’m not yet convinced we will be done on Friday, …

Opinion

18 Mar, 2023

Dearly departed

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

The honor roll of departed community icons is getting uncomfortably long. With the passing March 13 of Erik Daarstad, at age 87, Sandpoint has lost …

Opinion

18 Mar, 2023

Good transportation design requires balance between vehicle, pedestrian movement

By Steve Klatt
Reader Contributor

It is interesting to observe the discussions begin again about transportation routes through Sandpoint, as individuals once again dig their philosophical trenches to create more …

Opinion / Politics

18 Mar, 2023

Greetings from Boise: The tricky business of amending bills, and other updates

By Rep. Mark Sauter, R-Sandpoint
Reader Contributor

It is the duty of the Legislature each session to set and approve a balanced state budget. I believe it’s the only required …

Opinion / Pets & Animals

1 Mar, 2023

On dogs

By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff

This month marks my dog’s fifth birthday. I’ve come to learn in the past five years that, when it comes to knowing and loving an …

Opinion

1 Mar, 2023

City must engage in real public involvement on ‘Couplet’ concept

By Molly O’Reilly
Reader Contributor

The Multimodal Transportation Master Plan that the city of Sandpoint proclaims favors all methods of getting around equally and was developed with “extensive public involvement” …

Featured / Opinion

1 Mar, 2023

Hwy. 2 ‘Couplet’ concept is ‘just nuts’

By Carrie Logan
Reader Contributor

The Idaho Transportation Department and the city of Sandpoint (non-elected officials) have been talking about “the Curve” or “Couplet.” How did this project raise its …

Opinion

24 Feb, 2023

The pesky public

By Ben Olson
Reader Staff

In an ideal democracy, a government serves at the behest of its people, not in spite of them. We are oceans away from anything resembling …

Opinion / Politics

24 Feb, 2023

Legislative Update: Greetings from Boise — and a homecoming

By Rep. Mark Sauter, R-Sandpoint
Reader Contributor

It’s been said this legislative session has had a slow start. There have only been a few bills passed by the Legislature and …

Featured / Opinion

24 Feb, 2023

The Lumberjill: Contemplating the cost of outspokenness

By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist

For a second, we worried that we were a tree service without a crew.

For a second, we worried that my politics might be …

Letters

• Response to Mr. Bearly… Dear Editor, I literally yelped in pain (as if someone punched me in the gut) when I read Tim Bearly’s line in his “The False Profit Motive” that read “Individualism will fail whenever there is money involved. We need a collectivist approach when it comes to the health of our planet.” This ...
• A Fear-Based Movement… Dear Editor, This is a response to Bill Harp’s article titled Why the Redoubt?, which is the final chapter of the Sandpoint Reader’s excellent American Redoubt Series. Nowhere in Harp’s article was fear mentioned as a motivation for the Redoubt movement. I see fear as the primary motivation for those of the ...
• Everyone Has A Health Care Story… Dear Editor, My story is about a man who works really hard, supports a child and falls into the Medicaid gap. He makes too much to qualify for Idaho’s Medicaid program, but not enough to qualify for the ACA health insurance subsidies. He got a small piece of insulation in his ...
• Look out for Socialists… Dear Editor, Ben Olson finished his expose on the “Redoubt” that provoked a series of Letters to the Editor, as controversy sells publication advertising! My motivation to weigh in was fortified by a neighbor’s elitist attack on Mr. Gifford. The unstated intention presented in Libby’s academic reliance is the censorship of ...
• Jazz Greats Who Died in 2017… Dear Editor, Guitarist Larry Coryell died Feb. 19 at age 73. Coryell’s rock-tinged riffs opened the door in the mid-’60s to jazz/rock fusion. Pianist Horace Parlan died Feb. 23 at age 86. Parlan was a hard-bop pianist who recorded with Charles Mingus, Clark Terry, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Archie Shepp and others. Pianist Misha ...

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