Mike Weland has been reporting local news in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, the heart of Trump Country, since 1991. Unfortunately, despite being a moderate Republican since he could vote, he never fell for Trump. Instead, almost since Trump came down the golden elevator, he's used his online news sites to sound warning, drawing considerable ire from the local populace who are so proudly MAGA. Having given his news site away to the next carrier of the torch and now semi-retired, he launched this site on the eve of Donald John Trump's second term as president both to share what he's written and in anticipation of much more news to come in the interesting times ahead. All commentary on this site is Creative Commons, so if you feel anything here worthy, feel free to share, and please share the site with your friends.
“I have noticed the ‘write in Tim Bertling’ signs all over the county,” a Boundary County Republican Central Committeeman wrote today on the Boundary County Politics Facebook page. “One thing that I noticed, is that most of the signs are placed on the properties of people who are members of the corrupt families that have…
NOTE: As a result of ongoing controversy, Boundary County Library Director Kimber Glidden, after just nine months in the job, tendered her resignation. Her last day was yesterday, but it wasn’t only she who left, three librarians left as well, leaving just three to keep the library open. But it likely won’t be open for…
In my years covering news in Boundary County, one thing I’ve learned is that all who land here and want to be accepted as neighbors are. We can bicker, we can argue, we can fight. But when troubles come, as they always do in a rough and unforgiving land, we distinguish ourselves, born here or…
We live in interesting times, and they are going to get far more interesting, as MAGA Republican leaders, still led by former president Donald Trump and their “conservative” propaganda press continue to lie blatantly to their constituents, vilify the left and Democrats and even moderate members of their own party, fomenting anger and divisiveness. Their…
