The Baloney Detective
Monopoly: The game of cumulative advantage By Tim BearlyReader Contributor “For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what...
Category: Politics
Early City Beach RV park design comes in $1M over budget
Sandpoint officials looking at how to cut project costs or seek further funding By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Redeveloping the City Beach RV park will be more challenging than initially thought, after preliminary design and...
Commissioners pass $81 million budget for FY ’27
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Amid rising global prices, the Bonner County Board of Commissioners has spent the past several months working with county department heads to tighten the purse strings while crafting the Fiscal...
Buyer beware
By Molly O’ReillyReader Contributor A local political candidate is promising to eliminate property taxes. As the old saying goes, “If it sounds too good to be true — beware!” Is it voodoo economics? For...
Politics versus civics
By Gil BeyerReader Contributor None of my children want to discuss “politics.” I’ll buy that. I personally believe that a significant percentage of the individuals in office or running for office are self-serving, power-hungry...
Attorney General Labrador can’t seem to resist conflicts of interest
By Jim JonesReader Contributor Attorney General Raúl Labrador is embroiled once more in a conflict of interest lawsuit. He is now accused of using his position to bias voters against Proposition 1, the initiative...
True public wildlands protection is urgently needed. IPPLI falls far short
By Groups concerned about the IPPLIReader Contributors The Idaho Panhandle Public Lands Initiative (IPPLI) presented in the Sandpoint Reader guest editorial [Perspectives, “Idaho Panhandle Public Lands Initiative reaches landmark agreement,” July 23, 2026], would...
Shared Waters: A film for a defining moment for the Kootenai River
Jennifer EkstromReader Contributor Pollution from five mountaintop removal coal mines in the Canadian Rocky Mountains is flowing downstream through the Elk River Valley of British Columbia; into the transboundary Koocanusa Reservoir; and then into...
Families like ours deserve the freedom to grow in Idaho
By Rep. Brooke Green, D-BoiseReader Contributor Becoming a mother has been the greatest gift. My husband and I know the struggle of infertility — from the emotional highs and lows of in vitro fertilization...
Sandpoint council approves $90M FY ’27 budget
Capital investments include $34 million for wastewater treatment plant By Zach HagadoneReader Staff City Council members voted unanimously Aug. 19 to adopt Sandpoint’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget, approving expenditures of $92 million — the...
