In praise of nuanced disagreement
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Among the many casualties of our present calamitous day is the quality of nuance. Power has a way of flattening the variability of ideas, regardless of whether that power...
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House committee recommends passing journalist ‘shield law’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Members of the Idaho House Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee voted unanimously Feb. 19 to advance House Bill 158 with a “do-pass” recommendation, putting it to the full body...
City Hall presents updated draft parking plan with new proposed fees
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff City staff returned Feb. 4 to the Sandpoint Planning and Zoning Commission, presenting an updated draft parking management plan that includes a new schedule of fees for off-street parking...
Politics roil regional library districts
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff About seven months after Idaho House Bill 710 went into effect as Idaho Code 18-1517B, placing a range of restrictions on access to library materials deemed “harmful to minors,”...
Netflix series American Primeval gets medieval on 19th-century U.S. history
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The American West is ripe country for torture porn. The history of how “we won” the region is fraught, to put it lightly. Even that phrase “we won” requires...
Kakistrophe
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Only a fool would try to keep pace with the chaos emanating from the wreckage wrought by President Donald Trump’s administration on the fabric of civil reality in the...
Real estate listing indicates City Beach resort hotel will include condos
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Local social media users kicked up a fuss late last month when a real estate listing on Zillow made the rounds, showing that Averill Hospitality was planning to reduce...
Trump administration causes nationwide whiplash on suspension of federal grants, loans
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Trump administration walked back a temporary pause on a swath of federal loans and grants Jan. 29, adding a coda to more than 24 hours of nationwide chaos...
Panida screens Groundhog Day for $5 on Groundhog Day
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Anyone who works in local media knows the peculiar exhaustion that goes with covering the same event year after year. There are only so many ways to frame a...
The art of the deal(ing) with it all
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The first time Donald Trump assumed the presidency of the United States, I quit my job as editor of Boise Weekly, we sold our house on the Boise Bench...
