Needs versus wants
By Helen Newton Reader Contributor Currently 15 cities in Idaho use taxing authority set up by the state for either resort city taxes or non-property local option taxes or both. These cities’ rates vary...
Category: Opinion
The Lumberjill
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Columnist North Idaho recently made the national news cycle thanks to the fact that we’re currently rationing health care, operating under “crisis standards of care” at all of our...
Emily Articulated
By Emily Erickson Reader Staff I’ve been thinking about my high school English class a lot lately and the care my teacher, Mrs. Auch, took in instructing us on the proper way to write...
‘Tyranny of the minority’
By Ben Olson Reader Staff It seems rarer and rarer that good news comes out of Idaho’s increasingly batty political sphere, but Aug. 23 was undoubtedly a good day for all Idahoans. That’s when...
Remembering 9/11: 20 years later
Apocalyptic literature By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff My college roommates and I lived together — all 20 or, like me, nearing 21 years old — in a nice house a few blocks from then-Albertson...
Emily Articulated: Relearned lessons
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist I had plans to write another article, to put a different set of words to my thoughts and ideas. I’d filled my customary notebook sheet with a loose outline...
The Lumberjill: Supply, demand and Sandpoint
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Columnist We received our first negative review recently. It came from someone we’ve never even met, let alone worked for. It came from someone disappointed in our inability to...
Mad About Science
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist The ability to learn isn’t a human-specific trait. Every organic creature from the blue whale to bacteria have some capacity for learning — otherwise we would never have evolved...
Blueberry Fields Forever
By Bonnie Jakubos Reader Contributor Picking blueberries is on my list of Favorite Things About North Idaho. I hasten to assure local huckleberry aficionados that I am not dissing their obsession. Indulging in those...
Emily Articulated
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist If my brain had a chamber that held all the existential dread I could carry about the state of the world, it would have a heavy door with a...
