Idaho state Rep. Phil Hart is going to court over his back state income taxes, filing an appeal in 1st District Court in Kootenai County charging that Idaho's state income tax is unconstitutional. Today, the state of Idaho filed a motion to dismiss the appeal;…
The Idaho Supreme Court's highly technical decision today in the Highway 12 mega-loads case may mean more public hearings and other steps before the giant truckloads could roll, according to the attorneys for Highway 12 residents and business owners who sued to block the loads.…
The Idaho Supreme Court decision in the mega-loads case turns on the question of whether the ConocoPhillips application for permits should be considered a "contested case" or not; the majority of the court said it should, and the dissenters said it shouldn't. That's a technical…
The Idaho Supreme Court has ruled in favor of allowing four mega-loads of oil refinery equipment to travel scenic U.S. Highway 12 in north-central Idaho, overturning a lower-court judge who revoked the permits for the four giant truckloads. The court, in a 21-page ruling, found…
Numerous Eye on Boise readers have been asking whether Idaho Rep. Phil Hart's voluntary donation to the state school endowment fund would be tax deductible, so I posed the question about such donations to Dan John, tax policy manager for the Idaho State Tax Commission.…
Idaho state Rep. Phil Hart, R-Athol, sent a check as promised to the state's school endowment for $2,450, but called it a "voluntary donation" to the permanent fund, not a payment on a judgment over a 1996 timber theft; Hart used the stolen logs to…
Here's a link to my full story at spokesman.com from Saturday's paper on the outside ads being run against Democratic candidate for governor, Keith Allred, thanks to a big cash infusion to the Idaho Republican Party from the Republican Governors Association. And here's a link…
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