David Preston Bond (April 11, 1951 – February 16, 2020) was a newspaper reporter, columnist, and editor based in the American Northwest.

His bylined column reviewed newly released popular and folk music albums, giving free rein to 22-year-old Bond’s aesthetic judgments and literary gifts.

Businessman and publisher Duane Hagadone, hired Bond initially there to address the controversial issue of summertime field burning by local farmers.

From 1998 onward Bond defined his status as an "independent writer," largely focusing on mining, the EPA, and North Idaho’s current affairs.

Also in 2005, Bond played a key role in Mayor Ron Garitone’s proclamation, on September 25, that the City of Wallace, Idaho lay at "The Center of the Universe."

Bond supplied the philosophical justification for this claim – it, a spoof highlighting his contention that the EPA relied on unfalsifiable science.

From 2006-2014 Bond reported on the mining industry for Platts Metals Weekly,[7] a McGraw-Hill publication, and was a featured contributor to The Free-Market News.

In December 1981, Donald Manuel Paradis, of the Gypsy Jokers motorcycle gang, was convicted of the June 21, 1980 murder of Kimberly Anne Palmer, 19.

National attention for the case was gained via CBS’s Sixty Minutes TV newsmagazine, The New Yorker, and numerous other media outlets.

[10] Beyond journalism, Bond was a ham radio operator licensed in Morse code (in teen years), a general aviation pilot, a skilled sailor, and an aficionado of vacuum tube electronics and vinyl records.