Bonner County is a little big place. At almost 2,000 square miles, it's a bit larger than Delaware but its population of 41,500 is about 4 percent of The First State. Located in the far northern panhandle of Idaho, encompassing lakes, rivers, mountains and forests, Bonner County has long been as much a tourism haven as it is a political hotbed.

Controversy grows as dense as the trees in Bonner County and the regional tendency toward outsized ideological contests played out in the run-up to the May 16 election in the hitherto humdrum race for a handful of seats on the Lake Pend Oreille School District board of trustees/Zach Hagadone, Boise Weekly. More here.