Mayor’s Roundtable: The city lot
By Mayor Shelby Rognstad Reader Contributor This is the third piece in a six-part series discussing the Leland Report. The purpose of the report was to help guide the city of Sandpoint’s land use...
Category: Opinion
Growing pains
By K.L. Huntley Reader Contributor A long, long time ago I lived in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in a town originally built during the gold rush of 1849. Without the use of...
A rule in common
By Barbara Russell Reader Contributor On Oct. 21, 1985, First Lady Nancy Reagan presented the United Nations with the gift of a mosaic on behalf of the United States in celebration of its 40th...
The soft underbelly of a humbug
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Maybe it’s because I was born the day after Christmas that I became a humbug. Throughout my childhood, Christmas always loomed before my birthday; the annual eclipse that left...
Coolin development threatens rare peat bog at Priest Lake
By Jennifer Ekstrom Reader Contributor We have some pretty amazing wild spaces up here in North Idaho. Massive lakes. Sparkling rivers. Diverse landscapes ranging from rainforests to rocky crags. And peat bogs. Yes, peat...
The Lumberjill: The only prescription is more cowbell
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Columnist Once upon a time, we had a client named Elaine. Once upon an earlier time, she was something of a painterly powerhouse. She was capital-S “Someone.” She had...
Emily Articulated: This is not a Christmas gift
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist I love the experience of gift giving. I revel in the days of warm rumination about the people I care about, letting thoughts of their life and my relationship...
An ode to the makers
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Christmas brings to mind the iconic imagery of Santa’s workshop. It’s been depicted many ways over the years, but the basis remains the same: There is a place, at...
A ‘contrarian elder’ speaks up against hate speech
By Paul Graves Reader Contributor Hate speech and fear speech are alive and active in North Idaho. They seem to scream a desire to impose their particular mix of far-right politics and religion on...
Facts support public access claims at Camp Bay
By Susan Drumheller Reader Contributor The fate of public access to Camp Bay is once again in the hands of the Bonner County Board of Commissioners. A district judge has sent the matter back...
