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...
Category: Opinion
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...
From resolve to dissolve
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff When I took a philosophy class a long time ago, one of the students asked our professor how he planned to observe the new year. His response was that...
Movies coming up in 2024
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Over the course of the new year, Hollywood will embrace its growing trend of trodding familiar ground. While there are some intriguing original film concepts to be excited about,...
Top TV of 2023
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff More than a few cultural observers have opined that we’re living in a “Golden Age of TV,” and that may be true, but those same observers have been saying...
2024 year in preview
By Reader Staff We don’t want some of this to come true, nor do we wish to give anyone any ideas, but as is our custom, the Reader staff presents its annual list of...
