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 …
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 …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
We make money off dying trees and wildfire-ravaged landscapes. Business booms when there are windstorms and droughts. We are disaster capitalists. Some days, I’m …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
Dear reader, allow me to let you in on a little secret: Your hired laborers, though they may appreciate you as an individual, do …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
“I want to be her in my next life,” I heard our client say to her husband. She said it about me. I ducked …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
Once upon a time, in a seemingly far off land, I was a writer. I woke every morning, grabbed my jar of peanut butter …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
Before my husband and I joined forces to become arborists, I was a librarian. I loved it. The interaction with community and books and …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
I spend a lot of time thinking about work-life balance, or, perhaps more accurately, my lack thereof. This is something we’re all supposed to …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
MAGA flags flapped atop their twin flagpoles as we chatted amicably with our clients. They showed us to their riverfront beach, provided chairs, invited …
Bonner General Health’s announcement March 17 that it would end labor and delivery services ripped a hole in the fabric of our community. Generations of North Idaho residents were born …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Just after the U.S. Supreme Court effectively overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the federal right to abortion, Sandpoint woman Jen Jackson Quintano found herself eager …
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