With mid-year budget holdbacks hitting, lawmakers on the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee will gather for their interim meeting this week to examine what's going on with the state budget, impacts of cuts already approved earlier this year and more. Among the agenda items for the two-day…
Idaho state officials flew on a state plane for a lobbying tour of phosphate mines last month, with a mining industry group footing the bill, the Associated Press reports, though the Idaho Transportation Department doesn't allow private groups to charter state planes. Lt. Gov. Brad…
