A case for human compassion
By Nishelle Gonzalez
Reader Contributor
I often get curious when someone has different political ideals. I honestly don’t like talking about politics in the frame of “what side are you …
Category: Opinion
Opinion
One week at a time
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Where in the name of Edward R. Murrow has eight years gone?
That’s how long it’s been since we brought the Reader back from the …
The Lumberjill: The f-bomb is only acceptable when talking about the president, and other language arts lessons from North Idaho
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
My little one was nervous for the first day of school. The entire drive found her curled in the fetal position, reciting the mantra, …
Emily Articulated: Tipping
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
I spent an entire decade of my life in a tip-based industry, waiting tables, tending bar and tour-guiding at everything from college pubs to fine …
Remembering a ‘true servant of mankind and plants’
By Pete Hicks
Reader Contributor
Jeffrey Rich, known to many of us as Sprouts, blessed our community for more than 40 years. My family only got the chance to know …
On memories
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
If I want to remember when something happened, I scroll through the photos on my phone.
I last cleaned out the folder in late 2019, …
Winter motorized rec. proposed alternative: An environmental apocalypse
By Paul Sieracki
By Reader Contributor
The North Zone Winter Recreation proposal — developed by a “collaboration” of pro-motorized recreation groups — will severely impact endangered, candidate and sensitive species …
Facts on local growth
By Jeremy Grimm
Reader Contributor
Ben, I appreciated the reflection provided in your opinion piece “Embrace the shoulder season… while we still can,” published on Sept. 1, 2022. You captured …
A Few Thoughts … On artistic types in the wilderness
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
Each year, a backpacking trip into a nearby wilderness is undertaken by certain artistic types (ATs), most often plein air painters. ATs follow “guide” Bearly-Seen …
Embrace the shoulder season… while we still can
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
You hear it in conversations at bars and restaurants all over town. Locals complain to one another about the summer tourist struggles but, when someone …
Letters
- Killing Riley was wrong… About the police killing of a pregnant Jeanetta Riley
- Petition event a success… Dear Editor, Thank you to everyone who helped make our first Get up...Stand up event a huge success. We helped 20 people get registered to vote and received over 50 signatures on our New Approach Idaho Petition. Thank you to Eichardt’s for hosting the event, Matt King for providing the music, ...
- A call to action… Dear Editor, I am thankful to the Reader for following through on the story of our “Senior Tree” (this is my affectionate name for the 140-year-old Ponderosa Pine that graces the Senior Center Parking Lot). Our last letter was informing you of the grant to redo the undulating parking lot, and has ...
- Challenge to climate change… Dear Editor, As a visitor passing through Sandpoint today, I enjoyed my brief time in this pretty town. But it was disappointing to open the local paper (June 18 issue) and see yet another media piece that failed to ask any tough questions challenging the alarmist narrative on global warming (now ...
- If you can keep it… Dear Editor, During the founding of our Constitution, the motto was, “‘eternal vigilance is the price we pay for liberty.” We the people, need to be involved, educated and engaged, in order to maintain our liberties that are enumerated in the Constitution. Personal liberty requires personal responsibility. We all need to ...
Reader in Print
Special Report
TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022.
GO READ IT»
WHERE ARE THE WORKERS?: Five-part series, September-October 2021.
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THE AMERICAN REDOUBT: Seven-part series, November-December 2017.
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STANDOFF AT RUBY RIDGE: 25 Years Later. Five-part series, August-September 2017.
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Curious about what media the locals use? Check our 2018 Local Media Survey. GO SEE »
Community Calendars
Coming up this week! Don’t miss out on Live performances of music & theater, fundraising, 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.
