Rep. Dan Rudolph, D-Lewiston, has announced that he won’t seek re-election to a second term. Lewiston Tribune reporter Bill Spence reports that Rudolph, who defeated incumbent GOP Rep. Thyra Stevenson by 26 votes in 2014, said he loves serving in the Legislature, but recently accepted a full-time teaching position at Lewis-Clark State College and won't have time to attend the session in the future. You can read Spence’s blog post here.

The two-week candidate filing period for the 2016 primary and general election begins Monday, Feb. 29.