What now?
We need people who will work for peace and goodwill, without division By Mark ReinerReader Contributor Every paper, including this one, is running one or more articles concerning the split between the right and...
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Preventable and predictable: Idaho’s budget crisis impacts us all
By Sen. Janie Ward-Engelking, D-Boise, and Sen. Melissa Wintrow, D-BoiseReader Contributors Transparency and accountability are hallmarks of healthy budgeting. So, let’s be transparent. Let’s be accountable. Everyone already knows how we got into our...
Democrats are the champions of average Americans
By Sylvia HumesReader Contributor Shout it from the rooftops: I am a proud Democrat. Why should I not be? We are not vermin, slime or radical leftists, as DJT claims. My party is the...
Dumb of the Week
By Ben OlsonReader Staff There is way too much Dumb in the world (and closer to home) to fit into this remnant space, but that seems to be the case every week. I could...
Emily Articulated: Fantasy, reality
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, was released in 2008 to mass appeal. It nearly instantly hit The New York Times Bestseller list, where it remained for more than 60...
Trump’s policies are devastating Idaho farmers
By Lauren Necochea and Sally TooneReader Contributors Family farms built Idaho and grew to feed the world, but they’re being pushed to the breaking point. President Donald Trump promised to fight for America’s farmers,...
Sandpoint ‘No Kings’ rally ranks among largest in the state
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff The most recent “No Kings” protest saw an estimated 1,200 demonstrators line First Avenue from Superior to Pine Street on Oct. 18, making the local event among the largest in...
Emily Articulated: Conservative whisperer
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist I used to think of myself as a “conservative whisperer” — someone who could hold my left-leaning views without spooking, and sometimes even charming, the staunchest of Republicans. Maybe it...
Dumb of the week
By Ben OlsonReader Staff Planet Earth is a memory. We now inhabit the Planet of Dumb, where up is down, two plus two is five and gas prices are perpetually at $1.98 per gallon....
Speak up to protect Roadless Rule and preserve our national forests
By Amy AndersonReader Contributor The Roadless Rule protects 58 million acres of our most intact, unlogged national forests from road building ,which facilitates industrial logging, mining, drilling and other industrial activities. The Trump administration...
