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In just over three weeks, voters will head to the polls to decide on a host of county and state legislative races. Do you know who the candidates are? Or where they stand on the issues?

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Want to get more local news ... or just want to hear a different take on the latest headlines from local journalists and observers? Then 88.5 KRFY, Sandpoint's nonprofit community radio station, has something for you coming every week, starting this Friday, June 30. That's when the station launches a new program, "News of the Week," airing live each Friday at 8 a.m.

It was March 27, 2022 — just after the end of the Idaho legislative session — when Blanchard, Idaho resident Andrew Scott gained federal copyright...

It’s a two-paper kind of day.

Close icon Two crossed lines that form an X. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. The FCC leveled a nearly $10 million fine against a Montana man who it said made racist and threatening robocalls. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin The FCC fined Scott Rhodes $9.9 million for making thousands of racist and threatening robocalls. Targets of the calls included Black and Jewish politicians, as well as a murder victim...

Montana man fined $9.9 million by the FCC for making thousands of racist and threatening robocalls INSIDER 2/1/2021 kvlamis@businessinsider.com (Kelsey Vlamis) © Provided by INSIDER The FCC leveled a nearly $10 million fine against a Montana man who it said made racist and threatening robocalls. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin The FCC fined Scott Rhodes $9.9 million for making thousands of racist and threatening robocalls. Targets of the calls included Black and Jewish politician...

1 of 2 FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2018, file photo, a poster for then missing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts hangs in the window of a local business in Brooklyn, Iowa. Regulators are proposing a nearly $13 million fine against Scott Rhodes, who they say illegally hid the origin of automated phone calls that used the slaying of Tibbetts, and election campaigns in other states to promote white nationalist and anti-Semitic messages. The Federal Communications Commi...

Former Sandpoint man fined nearly $10M for racist robo-calls The FCC fined Scott Rhodes $9.9 million for illegally using a caller-ID spoofing platform to target specific communities with harmful pre-recorded messages. Credit: Screenshot via Daily Bee/File Scott Rhodes is pictured when he was a Sandpoint resident. Author: Keith Kinnaird (Bonner County Daily Bee) Published: 12:03 PM PST January 25, 2021 Updated: 12:32 PM PST January 25, 2021 SANDPOI...