By Dan Gookin Reader Contributor Data is important. Especially in the realm of Idaho politics, where fear and innuendo dominate the landscape. A case in point is found in the recent release of the...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Pizza might just be the perfect food: it’s delicious at any time of day or night, tastes great hot or cold, and is just as easy to eat on...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s been a bad run of years for a lot of reasons, but one particularly insidious trend has been eroding the substructures of civil society in Idaho since at...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff At its most basic, The Holdovers reads like a Hallmark holiday special: an embittered, middle-aged man; a teenaged boy whose loneliness has honed the chip on his shoulder to...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Justice finally caught up with Scott Rhodes, a man who lived briefly in Sandpoint while conducting a yearslong campaign of hate through racist robocalls directed at individuals across the...
By Rep. Lauren Necochea Reader Contributor For democracy to work, elected leaders must have the freedom to act in the best interest of their constituents. This bedrock principle is now being severely undermined by...
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Now that Reader Publisher Ben Olson and contributing writer Sandy Compton have given their two cents about Taylor Swift and her worshippers (see Nov. 17’s “Celebrity worship is peak...
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff A writer, essayist, poet and professor at the University of Puget Sound, where I earned my English degree, gave an insightful lecture on representation and the nature of good...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff It’s been a long time since we’ve written about former District 1 Rep. Heather Scott in these pages. Rep. Scott moved over to District 2 in 2022 after a new...
By Rep. Mark Sauter Reader Contributor Greetings. I hope all is well. We finished the fifth week of the session on Feb. 9, and I’m concerned about the way this session is progressing. There...
