On the end of the school year
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
By the time this story makes it into newsprint and the hands of our readers, I’ll be neck-deep in the final two days of school.…
Category: Opinion
Opinion
The massacre of children
By Adrian Murillo
Reader Contributor
There are some crimes that are so monstrous it hurls you far beyond your fear of the perpetrators or those agitators who urge them on. …
The Baloney Detective: The cult of market fundamentalism
By Tim Bearly
Reader Contributor
“Welcome brothers and sisters, to the Temple of the Invisible Hand of Adam Smith; a sacred place of worship, where our glorious free-market system can …
What we can do to address our housing crisis
By Cate Huisman
Reader Contributor
My earlier piece about what we can’t do to address our crisis in workforce housing [Reader, Opinion, “What we can’t do to address …
The morning after the election
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The morning after the election, I took a walk. The dark computer screen across the room beckoned me to waggle the mouse and wake it …
My mom is kind of a big deal
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
There’s not enough room on this page — maybe even in this paper — to adequately praise or even describe my mom. She’s kind of …
TV moms got nothing on the real thing
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
A significant portion of my formative years were spent watching television families. As a child whose parents both worked full time to ensure my two …
Passenger seat past
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
It is a spring evening, nearing sunset, after a warm day. The smell of sun-baked lakebed and blooming skunk cabbage fills the car, carried by …
The small, good things
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Every job has its stresses, no matter if you’re the CEO of a Fortune 500 company or the dishwasher in a small-town diner.
Journalism is …
Setting the record straight on wolves
By Don Gay
Reader Contributor
In my opinion, the Reader opinion article on wolf trapping [“Trapping is a legal, useful tool to manage wolf populations,” March 31, 2022, by Eric …
Letters
- Antarctic Dinosaur… Dear Editor, Some time ago, I read an interesting article describing a dinosaur discovery – in Antarctica of all places – by a EWU prof. The bones of this dinosaur – obviously extinct – are thought to be 71 million years old, plus or minus. Antarctica wasn’t always an ice cube? I ...
- Climate Change and Science… Dear Editor, For once I agree with Ben Olson, with his comment “I long for the days in the future when science is treated as fact and not activism.” The comment pertained to his observation of heavy forest fires “every single year” somehow being linked to “climate change.” Climate change is a ...
- Jack Handey… Dear Editor: I feel compelled to respond to “Deep Thoughts” by Jack Handey from Aug. 16. In the past, I knew his “Deep Thoughts” were stupid, but I can ignore stupid. This week’s “Deep Thoughts” article was beyond stupid. It was a mean and irreverent article. You aren’t “cute” to tell a child that ...
- The County Budget… Dear Editor: This started out as a simple endorsement for Steve Lockwood for county commission, but the commission budget article in the Aug. 16 Reader encouraged me to expand my comments as it pertains to Dan McDonald, apparently the commissions spokesman. Mr. McDonald pays lip service to issues that effect the average ...
- No Place for Hate… Dear Editor, The Daily Bee headline about Mr. Patrick Little’s plans to come to Sandpoint to spread his feelings of hatred toward Jews weighs heavy on my heart. I had a twinge of disgust that the Bee would even print anything about him because it gives him credibility. But it is ...
Reader in Print
Special Report
TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022.
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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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Community Calendars
Coming up this week! Don’t miss Festivus, Skiing with Santa, Hogwire, 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.
