By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff You can give no greater gift to an arch-conservative than mentioning the word “democracy” — it gives them the opportunity to puff up with pedantic glee and launch into...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The alarm clock barely has a chance to make any noise on powder days. I’m usually up well before the buzzer, checking the Schweitzer Snow Report for an update...
By Rep. Steve Berch, D-Boise Reader Contributor People told me something I’ve never heard before as I was knocking on doors last year: “Stop the crazy!” Voters are concerned about increased extremism and inflammatory...
By Brad Smith Reader Contributor The Sandpoint City Council made two important decisions about the Highway 2 corridor at its Feb. 1 meeting. The council unanimously approved the purchase of Dub’s. The council also...
By Kody Van Dyk Special to the Reader Fifth Avenue, parts of Pine Street and the Dover Highway from Boyer Avenue to the western city limits are part of U.S. Highway 2, owned and...
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist It began a few weeks ago — the aisles at grocery stores turning pink-and-red, the targeted ads on my devices shifting from running shoes and heavy knit sweaters to...
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist Long ago, my girlfriend and her sister took me skiing at Schweitzer Basin. Sort of. They got me in a pair of leather boots that connected — temporarily —...
By Rep. Mark Sauter, R-Sandpoint Reader Contributor The weather here in Boise is a little better since the bone-chilling temperatures have passed. Now it is more like the Sandpoint I miss: 20s at night...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff “O brave new world, that has such people in it!” — William Shakespeare (or maybe it was a bot that said this. Who knows anymore?) Journalists are used to covering...
By Reid Weber Reader Contributor The city of Sandpoint adopted a “multimodal transportation plan” in 2021, which illustrates general goals, layered maps, objectives and concept drawings of new intersections. It includes depictions that prioritize...
