Marianne Love/Slight Detour laments the type of vicious rhetoric that has infected the political season in Bonner & Boundary counties this fall, including the nasty remarks aimed at respected state Sen. Shawn Keough, R-Sandpoint (above). Posts Marianne: "Sometimes during political seasons, one can sit back for just so long, listening to or reading the unfair attack-dog tactics a few candidates will use in attempts to discredit their opponents, trying desperately—at any cost---to get elected." Marianne gives her Lodgepole Society political endorsements today. Click here.

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