Here's a news item from the Associated Press:  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — House Education Committee Chairman Bob Nonini says February tax revenue may be $10 million below targets. Nonini, a Coeur d'Alene Republican, said Tuesday he got "a little tip" that the most recent month's revenues from sales and income taxes "weren't good." Budget writers are already planning to set the budget for the year ending on June 30 based on $2.28 billion in tax revenue, which is $69 million less that Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter's economists have predicted Idaho will take in. If Nonini's $10 million figure is correct, that puts Idaho's 2010 revenue at $35 million below targets since December — with four months remaining in the fiscal year. Wayne Hammon, Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter's budget chief, declined to confirm the figure, saying Nonini didn't hear it from him.

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