‘It’s that time of year again’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Many years ago, I worked with an otherwise excellent journalist whose main failing came in the form of the lede: “It’s that time of year again.” For real, this...
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Sandpoint residents gather to support Ukraine
By Brenda Hammond Reader Contributor Inspired and following the leadership of Grace Rookey, a Sandpoint High School sophomore, 70 people gathered March 6 for a peaceful event along the bike path between Michigan and...
Solace in Sandpoint
By Sophie Poldermans Special to the Reader My brain foggy from lack of sleep, jet lagged, mixed with a jolt of excitement and curiosity, I stared out the window of a misty-blue four-wheel drive....
The granddaddy of all missed opportunities?
By Stephen Drinkard Reader Contributor All of us miss opportunities. In 1989 my wife and I missed an opportunity to buy an acre of property on the lake for $80,000 because we were either...
Love your neighbor in 2019
By Ben Olson Reader Staff If there’s one thing I learned after spending 25 days on a sailboat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, it’s that I have no room for petty nonsense...
Inside Foster Care
By Jeremiah Saint Reader Contributor According to the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System, in the year 2017 there were a reported 442,995 children in the foster care system; 123,437 of these...
Mahatma Gandhi’s profound influence on Martin Luther King
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Christ furnished the spirit and motivation, while Gandhi furnished the method. —Martin Luther King, Jr. I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical...
Roy Moore was enshrined as a hero by Old Testament rape law devotees
By Katie Botkin Reader Contributor News recently surfaced that Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, who was just endorsed by the Republican National Committee, has ties to Vision Forum, a now-defunct, politically-involved ministry that put...
DiaTribe: Thoughts on the nature of conformity and tribalism
By Tim Bearly Reader Contributor If we could take Doc Emmett Brown’s DeLorean back in time — now I’m talking way back, back to the days of our hunter-gatherer ancestors — then we would...
How our state has swung to the conservative right
By Jim Ramsey Reader Contributor When we first moved to Idaho in 1971, Cecil Andrus was in his first year as governor. He went on to win three more terms interrupted by a stint...
