‘We do what we can’
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Food insecurity is a terrible thing, but it’s especially heartbreaking when it involves children.
For the past 15 years, the nonprofit organization Food for our …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Food insecurity is a terrible thing, but it’s especially heartbreaking when it involves children.
For the past 15 years, the nonprofit organization Food for our …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
The Bonner County Human Rights Task Force gathered Dec. 10 to honor five community members who have exhibited outstanding dedication to preserving and advancing human …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
“Abortion is health care.”
These words came from the lips of Sandpoint’s own Dr. Amelia Huntsberger, as she testified to the Senate Finance Committee …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Country musician Ty Herndon rose to fame in 1995 with the release of his ballad of love and loss, “What Mattered Most,” which reached No. …
By Kyle Pfannenstiel
Idaho Capital Sun
The Trans Youth Emergency Project is expanding into Idaho, offering families of transgender Idaho youth financial and logistical assistance to access transition-related care 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 …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
In the four years I attended Sandpoint High School many of my peers took their own lives — in 2015 we lost three in one …
By Becca Renk Foster
Reader Contributor
It wasn’t quite a manger, but after I was born, my parents wrapped me in swaddling clothes and laid me in a dresser drawer …
By Kyle Pfannenstiel
Idaho Capital Sun
A new report released Nov. 28 found children and mothers are dying in Idaho at an increasing rate. Reforming Medicaid coverage in the state …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Federal, tribal and local government officials, in conjunction with the human rights task forces of Bonner and Boundary counties, will host an outreach program exploring …
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