Where’s the beef, Sen. Risch?
By Jim JonesReader Contributor It must be election season again because I’m seeing many down-home TV ads of Jim Risch wearing his cowboy uniform and tossing hay to his cattle — as well as...
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A Few Thoughts… On what we have now
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist My last column prompted interesting letters to the editor, some of which weren’t printed because the writers didn’t wish to be in the public eye. One that did get...
2025 year in preview
By Reader Staff Even if you’ve never read any of the works of 19th-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, you’ve probably heard someone repeat his famous line: “A pessimist is an optimist in full possession...
Mad about Science: The radioactive ‘wild boar paradox’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff By now, pretty much everyone should be at least familiar with the disaster that befell the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986, when its Reactor No. 4...
From pain to poetry
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Poets are students of humanity. It’s the poet’s job to witness the horrifying, gorgeous, nonsensical world and condense it, wrap it in metaphor and deliver it to those willing...
Series of local vigils planned for peace in Ukraine
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Between 30 and 35 area residents gathered April 10 along Highway 2 for a peace vigil centered on the conflict in Ukraine, which Russian troops triggered in February with...
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...
Emily Articulated: Spirals
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist Living in the world of late feels like being strapped into a roller coaster with only a few boards in front of the ride visible, the rest shrouded in...
A few thoughts … On Vladimir Putin and Ukraine
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist “There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.” —Winston Churchill In 2001, I had...
A history of conflict
By Christine Holbert Reader Contributor I recently spent six weeks in Ukraine, visiting family, traveling and promoting the new Lost Horse Press Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series at the Lviv Book Forum and elsewhere. That...
