Event: Stimpson Award for Civic Engagement

City Club brings people together to explore community issues and hear diverse viewpoints by creating spaces where conversations happen. This was the vision of one of City Club’s founders, Dottie Stimpson, who believed all things were possible when people started talking and listening.

To honor this legacy, City Club hosts an annual forum to celebrate the Stimpson Award for Civic Engagement. This year’s recipient is Betsy Russell, who retired this year as the undisputed dean of the Idaho Statehouse press corps. In her 36-year career at three of the state’s largest newspapers, her diligent reporting kept Idahoans across the state, as well as those inside the Idaho Capitol itself, up-to-date on every move of the state’s political leaders. Her newspaper stories, Eye on Boise blog, and commentary on Idaho Public Television’s Idaho Reports were required reading and viewing for anyone with an interest in the state’s halls of power.

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