By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff About 70 people gathered July 1 at the Sandpoint branch of the East Bonner County Library to express their support for the library and opposition to House Bill 710,...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Librarians around the state have spent a tense several months preparing for House Bill 710 to take effect. The legislation, passed by lawmakers in April and signed into law...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff As of the start of the weekend, Star Wars: The Acolyte, House of the Dragon and The Boys were the most popular topics on Rotten Tomatoes, with average critics’...
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist “I had to get out of Commie-fornia,” he said, eyebrows wagging, all anticipation of landing a shared joke. It didn’t land. I had just been standing in line for...
By Linda Navarre and Todd Crossett, co-chairs, BCHRTF Members Reader Contributors “It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. Never let anyone tell you that...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff I miss the good ol’ days. You know, that era in politics when a candidate — no matter which party they belonged to — did or said something so...
By Jack T. Riggs, M.D. Reader Contributor As President Ronald Reagan once said, “Status quo, you know, is Latin for ‘the mess we’re in.’” As a lifelong resident of Coeur d’Alene, and a Republican...
By K.L. Huntley Reader Contributor I always loved the story of the young people participating in the Special Olympics in Seattle almost 50 years ago. It was the 100-yard dash, the gun went off...
By Kyle Pfannenstiel Idaho Capital Sun Weeks after a library materials regulation bill failed by one vote in the state Senate, Idaho lawmakers on March 11 quickly advanced an amended library bill that stalled...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Justice finally caught up with Scott Rhodes, a man who lived briefly in Sandpoint while conducting a yearslong campaign of hate through racist robocalls directed at individuals across the...
