Slop new world
By Ben OlsonReader Staff For the first time in the Reader’s history, we ran the candidate questionnaire responses that we publish before every election through an AI-detection software called Pangram. We were surprised and...
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Under the city of love
A brief history of the Paris Catacombs By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff In the grand scheme of things, the catacombs beneath Paris are a relatively recent creation — younger, in fact, than most of its...
Feverish
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff I don’t know about the rest of you people, but I could do with a breakage in our political fever at the midterms. It’s dire to imagine how little more...
Wind through a million needles
By Ben OlsonReader Staff Last week, the transition into fall was complete when I lit the first fire in our woodstove at home. After sitting idle for months, this hunk of inert metal came...
Knock on wood
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Do you knock on wood or cross your fingers when you want something good to happen — or something bad to not happen? Do you wear a rally cap when...
Why the Idaho Statesman job cuts hurt us all
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff With the exception of bagging groceries at the Sandpoint Safeway, running the fryers at Serv-a-Burger, bartending at the long-lost Downtown Crossing and selling books at a shop in downtown Boise,...
My Sandpoint
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff What does it take to call yourself an Idahoan or, better yet, a Sandpointian? I’ve lived along the shores of Lake Pend Oreille all my life. I grew up in...
The schoolhouse rocks
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Much political hay has been made about the supposedly decrepit state of our nationwide public school system, with whole industries devoted to tearing down confidence in how kids are educated. ...
My brain is shrinking; is yours?
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Whether you’re reading the news, writing the news, watching the news or surviving the events that make up the news, it’s currently impossible to live a stress-free life. That’s the...
Bring on the AI backlash
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The high-tech backlash seems to be building — if not already upon us — and I’m here to report for duty. No less that Pope Leo XIV devoted his...
