By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff You can give no greater gift to an arch-conservative than mentioning the word “democracy” — it gives them the opportunity to puff up with pedantic glee and launch into...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Here is a list of “North Idaho activities” at which I suck, am mediocre or lack experience in, and have tried but frankly don’t like doing (in some kind...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff We’re just going to get this one out of the way at the top. Since 2020, when we started doing these annual review/previews, we included a little tongue-in-cheek prediction...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff There’s been a curious trend in the letters to the editor I’ve been receiving lately: people trying to claim that the Nazis were “actually” liberals and that the Democratic...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff W e tend to think of the foods in our Thanksgiving spread as the definition of “traditional” American fare — as intrinsic to our provincial identity as, well, apple...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Sandpoint city councilors unanimously approved a memorandum of understanding Nov. 16 with the Sandpoint Urban Renewal Agency to pursue redevelopment of the downtown surface parking lot between Main and...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Things are bad, folks. I say this not as a partisan for any particular political party, but as a son raised in a fuzzy melange of lapsed Scottish Presbyterian...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff This article is Part 2 of the conclusion to a series of articles supported by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council and sponsored by Friends of Scotchman Peaks...
By Zach Hagadone and Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Midterms often draw fewer voters than presidential elections, but a few big-ticket ballot items brought citizens to the polls in unusual numbers. Most of the up-ballot races...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Members of the Sandpoint Planning and Zoning Commission took in a presentation Nov. 1 from City Planner Amy Tweeten, who recapped a pair of workshops hosted Oct. 20-21 focused...
