Dist. 1 lawmakers Sauter, Woodward attend Sandpoint town hall
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Idaho District 1 Rep. Mark Sauter, R-Sandpoint, and Sen. Jim Woodward, R-Sagle, gathered with constituents March 15 for what may be the last local town …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Idaho District 1 Rep. Mark Sauter, R-Sandpoint, and Sen. Jim Woodward, R-Sagle, gathered with constituents March 15 for what may be the last local town …
By Lauren Necochea
Reader Contributor
State revenue funds the building blocks of a strong economy and protects our quality of life. Public schools and career training prepare the next generation. …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Perhaps, in a decade or two, we’ll look back on this time period and shake our heads softly, saying, “It was a strange time to …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
When I was a cub reporter at the Associated Press, stationed in the bowels of the pre-renovation Idaho Capitol, circa 2003, we had a CRT …
By Rep. Mark Sauter, R-Sandpoint
Reader Contributor
Greetings. The Legislature is in its 10th week. Nearly 400 House bills and 170 Senate bills have been introduced. Approximately 70 resolutions and …
By Reader Staff
Members of the Idaho District 1 legislative delegation will host their final town hall of the 2025 Idaho Legislature on Friday, March 15, with events in Bonners …
By Bob McKeon
Reader Contributor
Well, are you all paying attention yet? Fifty million of our tax dollars just got stripped from us and our underfunded public schools by our …
By Rep. Mark Sauter, R-Sandpoint
Reader Contributor
We are in the middle of the legislative session and, to no one’s surprise, there are a considerable number of bills being printed …
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 …
By Kelly McGrath
Reader Contributor
As a family medicine physician in rural Idaho, I have had the privilege of caring for Idaho families for more than three decades. I have …
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