The city's daily newspaper, also owned by Hagadone, employs a staff of seven full-time reporters. Its primary coverage area is Kootenai County, where its print-based circulation is between 18,000 and 20,000 readers.

Education reporter Maureen Dolan took a few minutes to chat with me, Monday.
She's been at the paper three years and made it past a small round of layoffs, recently.

"We were doing pretty well (before the recession),"
she says. "I really think the economy just accelerated what was happening with newspapers."

The paper is slowly increasing its web presence, Dolan says, "But there's no big rush, at this point."

She adds: "I feel pretty confident that papers that are committed to community will ride this out in some format… and I don't think the print edition will ever completely go away."