How To Argue (without sounding like an idiot) — Part 2
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
This is the second part of the “How to Argue” series where we take a look at logical fallacies, which are errors in reasoning that …
Category: Opinion
Opinion
How to argue (without sounding like an idiot) — Part 1
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
We’ve all been there. You’re at the bar having a beer with friends and that loud blowhard comes in looking to change your mind about …
Feds playing games with Idaho agriculture
By Rep. Mat Erpelding and Sen. Jim Patrick
Reader Contributors
Washington politicians are taking aim at Idahoans again from our farmers, ranchers and dairymen to our technology workers. They are …
New BNSF bridge would ease congestion and benefit trade in PNW
By Commissioner Glen Bailey
Reader Contributor
Last spring, BNSF Railway announced it would be moving forward on a proposal to add a second rail bridge over Lake Pend Oreille in …
University “shared governance” and faculty discontent
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
What faculty governance? I thought that was what we were for.
—a former member of the UI Board of Regents
Proposals to make governance “more …
Single in Sandpoint: March Madness
By Scarlette Quille
Reader Columnist
Spring is the most misrepresented season of all. For decades humans have been passed down the notion that spring is all about baby chicks, budding …
Point / Counterpoint: Guns in schools
It is time to get serious about protecting our children
By Christian Rose
Reader Contributor
The last time anyone at Stoneman Douglas High School remembers seeing Jr. ROTC Cadet Peter …
On The Lake: BNSF’s permit application to build a second rail bridge over the lake is making my eye twitch
By Shannon Williamson
Reader Columnist
You’ve probably already heard that Burlington Northern Sante Fe (BNSF) submitted permit applications to build a second rail bridge over Lake Pend Oreille. Correction – …
Support Idaho’s future by voting ‘in favor’ of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness
By Cary Kelly
Reader Contributor
As a Marine Deputy on Lake Pend Oreille for the Bonner County Sheriff’s Office for 18 years, an avid skier with more than 1,200 days …
Emily Articulated: Millennial Brad
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
Well folks, it happened. In the space between the clamber of ice in my shaker and the subdued conversations of my contented customers, I heard …
Letters
- Republican or a Democrat…? Dear Editor, Growing up in North Central Montana in the ‘50s, I spent a great deal of time with my maternal grandparents. They were homesteaders who became small business owners. Family was most important. Religion, education, literature, arts, and sports were part of family life. So was working hard, taking responsibility ...
- To Senators Risch and Crapo… To Sens. Risch and Crapo, As our elected representatives in the U.S. Senate, we are asking you to act in our behalf to immediately halt the inhumane policy of the Trump administration in separating children from their parents at the border. With hundreds of children, some ripped from their mother’s arms, separated ...
- Insulting Immigration Policy… Dear Editor, Families from Central America are fleeing the worst criminal violence in the world. They are arriving at our borders. These men, women and children are seeking asylum as they are literally running for their lives. They have left behind their family, their friends, their homes, their land, their property and ...
- Fuhrman Insult… Dear Editor, Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! I’m sorry, but as a newspaper that promotes community peace, love and togetherness, where do you get off blasting one of our citizens, Mark Fuhrman, as someone you wish hadn’t moved here? What has he EVER done to harm Sandpoint? I’ve never met Mark Fuhrman but ...
- Read, Listen, Watch… Dear Editor, Read “Merchants Of Doubt,” written by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, explores the schemes of climate change deniers. “... they don’t have to win, they just have to create doubt and delay.” Listen “Freedom Highway” by Rhiannon Giddens, operatically trained singer/songwriter, recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant” Award in ...
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Special Report
TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022.
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WHERE ARE THE WORKERS?: Five-part series, September-October 2021.
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THE AMERICAN REDOUBT: Seven-part series, November-December 2017.
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STANDOFF AT RUBY RIDGE: 25 Years Later. Five-part series, August-September 2017.
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Sandpoint in Pictures
Filmmaker Jimmy Matlosz of the Idaho Film Company has made a series of mini documentaries about influential Sandpoint locals, including the late Dann Hall and Erik Daarstad as well as icons Diane Michaels and Dan Shook. He is currently working on a series of interviews connected to the history of the Panida Theater. Jimmy is a 30-year veteran filmmaker who’s work can be seen at dpmatlosz.com.
