Emily Articulated: Overreaction
By Emily Erickson Reader Staff I remember the footage of a woman screaming in the streets after the first Trump inauguration. She became a meme — a poster child for “snowflake liberals overreacting.” A...
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Politics roil regional library districts
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff About seven months after Idaho House Bill 710 went into effect as Idaho Code 18-1517B, placing a range of restrictions on access to library materials deemed “harmful to minors,”...
District 1 Senate, House candidates respond to questions at primary forum
By Zach Hagadone and Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Candidates for District 1 Idaho Senate and District 1 Idaho House Seats A and B gathered at the Sandpoint High School auditorium April 30, providing voters with...
Fight or flight
By Diana Dawson Reader Contributor I was 16 when I had my first transformative political experience. It was 1967 and I had been selected as an American Field Service student. I, along with 700...
The Lumberjill: Who knew we’d be talking so much about sex at libraries
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Columnist Once upon a time, I was a librarian. I came for the books — words are my jam, after all — but I stayed for the patrons. The...
