Is this the land of the free?
By Jenna Bowers
Reader Contributor
I am uniquely positioned to write this piece. I am a native of Sandpoint. I have deep roots and a strong connection to the people …
Category: Opinion
Opinion
Board of Ed-approved framework designed to safely reopen public schools
By Shawn Keough
Special to the Reader
The first day of school for students in the Lake Pend Oreille School District is just about five weeks away. Gov. Brad Little …
The Late Night Buddhist
By Scott Taylor
Reader Columnist
I opened Pandora.com to my “Three Dog Night” station the other day, feeling nostalgic toward those late-’60s and early-’70s songs about love, debauchery, altered states …
Emily Articulated
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
1. You open your device, check the wifi connection and scroll to find your preferred social media account. Upon its selection, your screen is flooded …
A Grain of Salt: The shame game
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
Okay world, that’s enough.
I’m not quite certain where it began — though I suspect there are some strong roots in the Old Testament — …
Sign your name, save our schools
By Luke Mayville,
Reclaim Idaho co-founder
Special to the Reader
For the next 40 days, Idahoans across the state will do something they’ve never done before: Add their electronic signatures…
‘When you protect everybody you protect yourself’
By Cynthia Dalsing
Reader Contributor
I wanted to write this article when I heard that more than 400 health care workers have died from COVID-19. This struck me — these …
Emily Articulated: Lessons of the Sorting Hat
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
When things get hard to process in the real world, I often escape to fantasy worlds for respite, coming out on the other side of …
A few thoughts… on patriotism
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
In the film Night at the Museum II, museum guard Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) and come-back-to-life Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams) lead enlivened historical characters …
The language of freedom
By Katie Botkin
Reader Contributor
Would you be shocked if I told you that conservatives and liberals speak different languages, in an almost literal sense? It’s true. There are certain …
Letters
- Ford For Sheriff… Dear Editor, I am writing in support of democracy. We have an upcoming election which should be carefully considered. It is the election for Sheriff of Bonner County. I support Terry Ford as an unaffiliated write-in candidate for this position and here is a list of why I feel compelled to tell ...
- Vote For Kate… Dear Editor, I have heard about Kate McAlister for years—about her great work with the Chamber of Commerce, her passion for great education, serving on the board of the Forrest Bird Charter School and her work with Angels Over Sandpoint. Every person I talked with had great words for Kate’s involvement ...
- Dissension Obnoxious… Dear Editor, Jodi Rawson’s Sept. 29 letter to the editor took issue with my letters directed at Ben Olson. She stated “…the dissension is becoming a bore”. What she really meant to say is “the dissension has become obnoxious.” If Olson, like Trump, wasn’t such an overweening person and had just retracted ...
- Not Convinced Re: Harassment… Dear Editor, Re. “Democrats pull worker out of Bonner County, charge harassment by Idaho Rep. Heather Scott’s supporters”. Really? An unnamed community organizer from an unnamed place is whisked away to an unnamed place because he claims being harassed day and night, in two counties, and we are supposed to believe this ...
- Only Candidate Qualified… Dear Editor, In the race for President, there is only one candidate that is qualified for this critical job. As a conservative editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal noted, Hillary Clinton’s election is all that can save us from the “reign of the most unstable, proudly uninformed and psychologically unfit president ...
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 Science fun, the Backcountry Film Festival, Insanity Fab, 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.
