Priorities for the 2025 legislative session
By Rep. Mark Sauter, R-Dover
Reader Contributor
Last week the Reader ran an article about the Highway 95 reroute project. We learned the Idaho Transportation Department was abandoning its exploratory …
By Rep. Mark Sauter, R-Dover
Reader Contributor
Last week the Reader ran an article about the Highway 95 reroute project. We learned the Idaho Transportation Department was abandoning its exploratory …
By Michael Rosedale
Reader Contributor
Editor’s note: The Reader has been hearing from property owners across Bonner County that they saw exorbitant increases to their property taxes during the last …
By Mike Gearlds
Reader Contributor
For reasons best explained by them, Idaho legislators again failed to pass property tax relief or reform measures in the past session. They roused from …
By Sen. Jim Woodward, R-Sagle
Special to the Reader
As Americans, we have a long history of placing high value on education. Thomas Jefferson spoke and wrote to great lengths …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Bonner County commissioners will hold a public hearing Friday to consider business property tax exemptions for four local businesses.
The four businesses set to be …
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