By Linda NavarreReader Contributor The Bonner County Human Rights Task Force has joined with human rights organizations in Boundary, Kootenai and Latah counties to voice their opposition to House Bill 557. This bill, which...
By Ammi MidstokkeReader Staff Like many of you, I sat through hours of testimony at the Nov. 19 meeting of the Sandpoint City Council. It was heartbreaking, exhausting, infuriating and embarrassing. At each claim...
By Sandi NizzoliReader Contributor At the City Council meeting on Nov. 19, many community members spoke about their fear of a transgender woman using the women’s locker room. A shocking amount of the public...
Decision comes after multiple tie votes broken by Mayor Jeremy Grimm By Zach HagadoneReader Staff After more than four hours of public testimony and deliberation — and a series of tie votes, all broken...
Transphobia is deadly to people and communities By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff On Nov. 19, the Sandpoint City Council and county residents took the future of human rights in our city into their hands. The...
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist I’ve been writing this column for a long time, and every time I sit down at my keyboard, I feel the weight, the privilege, of having this platform. But over...
Move comes amid furor over transgender individual’s use of YMCA locker room By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Sandpoint City Council members convened in a special meeting Nov. 12 to address the municipality’s longstanding non-discrimination ordinance,...
