Idaho hearing officer and retired district Judge Duff McKee today rejected a motion for reconsideration from opponents of megaloads of oil equipment on U.S. Highway 12, but the opponents say they'll now file another objection. Borg Hendrickson, a Highway 12 resident and one of the…
Here's the map that Democratic redistricting Commissioner George Moses displayed to the bipartisan citizen redistricting commission today showing 24 counties in Idaho that have borders with adjoining counties that aren't crossed by a state or federal highway. He and the other Democratic commissioners contend that…
Steven Vames, vice president for corporate communications for Credit Suisse bank, has issued this statement on the latest legal filings in federal court in Idaho, in which Alfredo Miguel, founder and former board chairman of the failed Tamarack Resort in Idaho, and Tim Blixseth, founder…
GOP redistricting commissioners are critical of L-28, the legislative redistricting plan proposed by Democratic redistricting commissioners last week, and GOP Commissioner Lou Esposito said, "I think the best way we can actually deal with the analysis on this map is to produce our own. So…
Returning from their break, redistricting commissioners actually got locked in a 3-3 partisan split over which rules manual they should be following, Mason's Manual or Robert's Rules of Order. GOP Co-Chairman Evan Frasure ruled it should be Mason's; the Democrats objected, but their objection failed…
Democratic Redistricting Commissioner George Moses says he's glad that the next thing up for the commission's consideration this afternoon will be a GOP analysis of the Democratic legislative redistricting plan he proposed last week. "We're ready," he said. "We want to hear what they have…
Idaho's bipartisan citizen redistricting commission convened this morning, and began discussing meeting dates stretching all the way through August and possibly into September, signaling that its ambitious goal of arriving at new legislative and congressional districts by July 27 has been abandoned. "With the glacial…