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By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
So-called “yarn bombing” is usually done in secret. One day, a fence or signpost is just what it appears to be; the next, after a …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
So-called “yarn bombing” is usually done in secret. One day, a fence or signpost is just what it appears to be; the next, after a …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The Panida Board of Directors received some homework Feb. 19, as about 25 community members attended its monthly meeting — the most that Chairman Robert …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Writing for CNN, acclaimed University of Texas at Austin historian, and one of the leading American thinkers on race, Peniel Joseph took up the topic …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Grocery taxes
Introduced in the House Revenue and Taxation Committee on Feb. 12, House Bill 494 would increase the grocery tax credit and equalize it …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Auteur director Quentin Tarantino took some heat from certain quarters for the ending of his 2009 Nazi-Western revenge fantasy flick Inglourious Basterds. If you …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Aside from the tribalism of professional sports and the bloodsport of political shitposting on Facebook, the gleeful deconstruction of celebrity ranks among 21st-century Americans’ preferred …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The long-debated resurfacing of War Memorial Field with artificial turf took a small but important step forward Feb. 5, when the Sandpoint City Council unanimously …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Since 2015, Sandpoint area residents have received anonymous robocalls attacking a range of targets, including Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad and, beginning in September 2018, Sandpoint …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It’s hard to stress how extensively critics have lost their damn minds over Parasite, the South Korean-language film from iconic-director-in-the-making Bong Joon-ho. Released in …
By Lyndsie Kiebert and Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
As the Bonner County v. City of Sandpoint weapons ban lawsuit enters its fifth month, tensions have steadily increased, boiling over when …
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