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.
“Your gross generalizations, pot stirring and slanderous comments are no different than what you are supposedly taking a stance against. And, at least one group above shouldn’t be included with the others anyway,” a reader said in response to an editorial I posted recently on Facebook, reprinted here. “Instead, why not use your platform to…
I don’t know how old I was, three? Four? It was at edge of my first memories, having screamed in an airplane for the first time. Transitioning from the gentle acceleration of many propeller driven flights to the scream of the jet engine. Scared me … I thought I would die. Flying from Germany to…
“Any chance of slowing down on the Trump stuff for a while?” a dear Republican friend wrote me the other day. “Just a suggestion, but we need to get local issues taken care of.” I was later invited, by Republicans, to attend last night’s Republican Central Committee meeting, but I didn’t see the message until…
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…
Before 2016, I would never have imagined seeing so many people in our communities, our region, clinging so firmly to such clear lies and false assertions as the Make America Great Again rhetoric of Donald John Trump and his merry band of misfits. I thought we were more logical, more intelligent. We aren’t and it…
A fool is defined as a person who acts unwisely or imprudently, and a good way to identify a fool is to prove that he or she denies the existence or validity of a thing that is real, true or valid … refusing to see truth. An undeniable aspect of a fool is that rather…
“Critical race theory, an ugly ideology that divides people based on race, has crept into Idaho’s public school classrooms right under our noses. You’re ready to fight back, but you need the tools and knowledge to fight this left-wing indoctrination. The Idaho Freedom Foundation’s ‘Fighting Critical Race Theory in Idaho’ toolkit will equip you and…
On Thursday, Idaho House District 1 Representative Heather Scott held an event in a church in Kootenai, live streamed for those who couldn’t attend, announced in an email with the subject line, “Smut in Our Idaho Libraries and What You Can Do About It.” A game plan, she wrote, to remove inappropriate materials from our…
