Where have all the mugwumps gone?
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
“The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
“The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average …
By Tim Bearly
Reader Columnist
“I represent the blue-collar, everyday hard-working Americans,” said every politician ever.
Well, I’m sorry, Mr. Politician, but your actions speak so many decibels louder than …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Sandpoint Reader: What is the top challenge you see the state facing in the coming year? How might you face that challenge?
Gary Suppiger: …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Candidates for contested Bonner County commissioner and District 1 Seat B representative seats faced off April 29 — albeit via video conference platform Zoom — …
By James Richard Johnson
Special to the Reader
I want my America back! I grew up in the Midwest in the 1950s and want back the America that stood for …
By Reader Staff
Looking ahead to what’s sure to be a critical election in 2020, the N.Idaho Women are preparing for their fourth annual Women’s March, set to take place …
By Tim Bearly
Reader Contributor
“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, “Beyond Good and Evil,” 1886
The movement, like …
By Nick Gier
Reader Contributor
About this time last year, I was traveling in Portugal and visited a number of sites in Lisbon. Some of them were dedicated to Vasco …
By Sen. Jim Woodward
Reader Contributor
Dear friends and neighbors of Legislative District 1,
The first regular session of Idaho’s 65th Legislature is complete. Spanning 95 days, the session …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
“I believe in markets — markets that work. Markets that have a cop on the beat and have real rules, and everybody follows them.”
—Sen. …
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