Fight or flight
By Diana Dawson Reader Contributor I was 16 when I had my first transformative political experience. It was 1967 and I had been selected as an American Field Service student. I, along with 700...
Category: Opinion
2023 game of the year: Baldur’s Gate 3
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Contributor I never played any Dungeons & Dragons as a kid, but I always wished I did. When I rolled that famous 20-sided die for the first time, I was...
2023 game of the year: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff The mark of an incredible game is the ability to return to it in different moods and stages of life and have the experience be as exhilarating as the...
What do Led Zeppelin, Leonard Nimoy and Joni Mitchell have in common?
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff The experienced cinephile, or anyone who was a teenage girl in 2013, will be familiar with Howard Shore’s astounding soundtracks to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit...
Hot springs people
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Hot Springs People. If you know, you know. While there aren’t any natural hot springs in our immediate region, drive a couple hours in any direction and you’ll find...
Governor’s school proposal too ‘Little,’ too late
Rep. Lauren Necochea, D-Boise Reader Contributor If we truly valued our children, we would ensure they spend their days in safe school buildings. But decades of neglect have caused Idaho schools to slide into...
Mother, homemaker, world builder
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Recently, upon a Christmas tidings visit to the Reader office, Publisher Ben Olson asked me a perfectly polite and simple question. It was something along the lines of: “Do...
208 Fiction competition results
Welcome to the third annual Sandpoint Reader 208 Fiction contest, in which we invited any and all writers to submit a work of fiction totaling exactly 208 words for consideration by a panel of...
A few thoughts… On being worried and enraged in 2024
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist It’s time to write something clever about the new year. Or at least something. We get an extra day in 2024, and we get to go through an election...
Highlights from a year on the BOCC
By Luke Omodt, District 1 Bonner County Commissioner Reader Contributor As a retired soldier and teacher with 25 years of public service, including 15 years in a classroom and multiple overseas deployments, I didn’t have...
