An old dog tries (and fails) to learn a new trick
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Here is a list of “North Idaho activities” at which I suck, am mediocre or lack experience in, and have tried but frankly don’t like doing (in some kind...
Category: Opinion
The gift of reading
By K.L. Huntley Reader Contributor What seems like several eons and another planet ago, I worked in a men’s correctional facility — in short a prison. One of those great big acre cages, topped...
The Lumberjill:
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Columnist The Pro-Voice Project, a stage production of personal stories of reproductive choice, hits the Heartwood Center stage on Saturday, Jan. 28. I invite you to attend and listen...
Emily Articulated
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist There are periods of time when I allow myself to “check out” of current affairs. It’s a purposeful ignorance I adopt when heaviness is already in my day-to-day —...
Lessons we can still learn from Dr. King
By Nishelle Gonzales Reader Contributor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is known for dedicating his life to the Civil Rights Movement. Every third Monday of January we are called and encouraged to reflect on...
Higher-density housing is coming — want to have your say?
By Cate Huisman Reader Contributor By now it’s well known that housing is beyond a quandary for Sandpoint. People who have lived and worked here for years have lost their long-time housing to the...
‘My taxes have gone through the roof!’
By Michael Rosedale Reader Contributor Editor’s note: The Reader has been hearing from property owners across Bonner County that they saw exorbitant increases to their property taxes during the last billing cycle. Bonner County...
Mayor’s Roundtable
By Mayor Shelby Rognstad Reader Contributor This is the fourth article in the series detailing recommendations that came out of the city of Sandpoint’s Housing and Economic Study developed by Leland Consulting. In this...
Emily Articulated: New Year’s intentions
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist There are times when it is appropriate for a person to be resolved, to be “firmly determined to do something.” A resolution is a venture into the future knowing...
The year in re- and preview
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff We’re just going to get this one out of the way at the top. Since 2020, when we started doing these annual review/previews, we included a little tongue-in-cheek prediction...
