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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By Mayor Shelby Rognstad Reader Contributor Last week the Sandpoint City Council reviewed a report from Leland Consulting, a firm that specializes in economic development, strategic growth and public private partnerships. The city contracted...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff There’s been a curious trend in the letters to the editor I’ve been receiving lately: people trying to claim that the Nazis were “actually” liberals and that the Democratic...
By Brenda Hammond Reader Staff This year, Human Rights Day will mark the 75th anniversary of the day the United Nations adopted, Saturday, Dec. 20, 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. After WWII,...
By Molly O’Reilly Reader Contributor The Idaho Transportation Department must be delighted that they finally have a Sandpoint administration, appointed and elected, willing to sacrifice community and residents for high-speed through traffic. Few communities...
