Candidate Questionnaire: 2024 Primary Election
Compiled by Zach Hagadone and Ben Olson
Publisher’s note: Before each election, the Sandpoint Reader reaches out to candidates in contested races to ask questions about how they would represent …
Compiled by Zach Hagadone and Ben Olson
Publisher’s note: Before each election, the Sandpoint Reader reaches out to candidates in contested races to ask questions about how they would represent …
By Ed Morse
Reader Contributor
Idaho once again made national headlines for the wrong reasons. Collegiate athletes from the University of Utah women’s basketball team experienced hate and racial slurs …
Rep. Lauren Necochea, D-Boise
Reader Contributor
Voters need to trust that their elected leaders are beholden to them — not their donors, lobbyists or party bosses. Unfortunately, we’re seeing a …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Though a number of candidates have already announced their intention to run for Dist. 1 legislative and local offices, the official filing period for the …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Republican Rep. Mark Sauter has announced he will seek a second term serving in the District 1A seat of the Idaho Legislature.
Stating in a …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
As its opening salvo in Idaho politics, Reclaim Idaho successfully gathered enough signatures to place a Medicaid expansion initiative onto the 2018 ballot, which reportedly …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
As candidates have filed to run for local office in the November election, Jim Woodward has his eye on the May 2024 Republican primary, announcing …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It’s not a presidential election year, but the November 2023 election will be a lively one locally, with a deep field of candidates for a …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
With fewer than two weeks until Election Day, the deadline to request an absentee ballot — Friday, Oct. 23 — marks every Idaho voter’s last …
By District 1B Rep. Sage Dixon
Special to the Reader
Last Wednesday, Aug. 26, the Idaho Legislature adjourned “sine die” from the First Extraordinary Session of the 65th Legislature. While …
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