A Few Thoughts… On what we have now
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist My last column prompted interesting letters to the editor, some of which weren’t printed because the writers didn’t wish to be in the public eye. One that did get...
Category: Politics
Decline of a nation
By Ben OlsonReader Staff When I was young, I thought my father had two belly buttons. One was where they’re usually supposed to be, but he had a second indentation a couple of inches...
Is ‘Gaz-a-Lago’ a harbinger of doom — or dumb?
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Sandwiched somewhere between his calls to stop funding colleges that allow “illegal protests,” threatening to take Greenland “one way or the other” and kicking wartorn Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy...
Local school leaders respond to gov’s signing of ‘school choice’ H.B. 93
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed House Bill 93 into law Feb. 27, providing $50 million of public money to support payments of between $5,000 and $7,500 toward tuition at...
Legislative update
By Rep. Mark Sauter, R-Sandpoint Reader Contributor We are in the middle of the legislative session and, to no one’s surprise, there are a considerable number of bills being printed every day. Some of...
Parking requirements are not what people think in Sandpoint
By Jason Welker Reader Contributor There’s a lot of misinformation about what the city “requires” of private developers in Sandpoint with regard to off-street parking. Recent op-eds and posts on social media have claimed...
BOCC greenlights Idaho Sheriff Connect app
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff The Bonner County board of commissioners voted unanimously Feb. 25 to enter into a one-year agreement with Idaho Sheriff Connect, authorizing OCV, LLC developers to tailor a facet of...
‘It’s the zeitgeist of this moment in America — maybe the whole world’
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff The Panhandle Health District board devoted its Feb. 20 meeting to the topic of informed consent for childhood vaccinations, which drew a crowd of medical professionals and members of...
The reckless firing of federal resource workers is a crisis for Idaho
By Justin Hayes Reader Contributor Idahoans cherish the great outdoors. Whether it’s visiting our national forests, fishing in pristine rivers or depending on a thriving agricultural sector, our way of life is deeply intertwined...
In praise of nuanced disagreement
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Among the many casualties of our present calamitous day is the quality of nuance. Power has a way of flattening the variability of ideas, regardless of whether that power...
