Orion Donovan Smith/Spokesman-Review
Orion Donovan Smith came to The Spokesman-Review in June 2020 through a grant received from the Report for America reporter program. He is the legislative reporter in The Spokesman-Review's Washington, DC Bureau.
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The Kootenai County Republican Central Committee voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to elect Ron Jacobson as its new chairman, officially ending the tenure of Brent Regan, who earlier this month also lost his race for precinct committeeman. -
Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-Spokane), a Catholic, said President Donald Trump was wrong to criticize Pope Leo XIV and to post an image of himself as a Jesus-like figure over the weekend as lawmakers returned to the Capitol from a two-week recess on Tuesday, -
Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, has to sign off on the spending bills that require bipartisan support to become law each year. That makes her arguably the most powerful Democrat in the federal government at a time when her party has precious little leverage in the nation’s capital. -
WASHINGTON – Two years after his town lost funding to upgrade its aging water infrastructure, the mayor of Chewelah flew more than 2,000 miles to the nation's capital to ask members of Congress for another shot. -
Two families of white South Africans whom President Donald Trump has designated as refugees arrived in the United States on Monday, en route to their new homes in southern Idaho. -
