By Dave BrittonReader Contributor Yikes! The Bonner County Republican Central Committee is still dominated by authoritarian meanness. Immediately after convening for its post-election reorganization meeting on May 29, Precinct Committeeman for Clark Fork Jensen...
Jensen Heisel: ‘Clark Fork is my home, my community and the place where I have lived, voted and built my life’ By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Jensen Heisel won the Bonner County Republican Central Committee...
2026 session recap By Sen. Jim Woodward, R-SagleReader Contributor The 2026 legislative session adjourned for the year on April 2. As expected, developing the annual budget was the dominant topic this year. It was...
By Timothy BraatzReader Contributor Scott Herndon, who is running for the Idaho senate, poses as a “small-government conservative.” In reality, he yearns for an intrusive state government to impose his extremist ideology on Idaho....
By Ben OlsonReader Staff History gives us moments; crossroads in the timeline of our lives that force a direction one way or another. The decisions we make when presented with these moments define our...
Voters elect new Sandpoint City Council members, approve wastewater bond by wide margin By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Bonner County voters went to the polls Nov. 4 to cast their ballots in a number of...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Sandpoint joined more than 2,100 communities that drew an estimated 5 million people to the streets nationwide to demonstrate against President Donald Trump’s administration on June 14 for “No...
By Reader Staff Editor’s note: Kaylee Peterson has been campaigning as a Democrat against Republican U.S. Rep. Russ Fulcher since 2022. Amid a swing through 10 counties in Idaho in 10 days, she visited...
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 every day. Some of...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Reader has never published its own endorsements of candidates. The closest we’ve ever come to doing so was actually a dis-endorsement I wrote of Reader co-founder and editor-emeritus...
