On tonight’s “Idaho Reports” program on Idaho Public Television, I join Jim Weatherby, John Freemuth and host Greg Hahn to discuss the week’s developments in the Legislature; the program also includes Hahn’s 30-minute interview with Gov. Butch Otter on everything from the First and Second…
While a professor lectures to a classroom full of University of Idaho students, above the students’ heads, brown water marks stand out on the classroom ceiling. Window frames are rotting. A corroded and leaking boiler heats a building at Idaho State University, and sidewalks are…
The Milk Producers of Idaho have come out in favor of Gov. Butch Otter’s proposal for a state-based health insurance exchange in Idaho. “The board strongly felt that it is important to have decisions regarding health insurance coverage in Idaho to be determined by Idahoans…
The House Education Committee today voted unanimously to introduce a bill sponsored by its chairman, Rep. Reed DeMordaunt, R-Eagle, and Senate Education Chairman John Goedde, R-Coeur d’Alene, to restore funding left in limbo by the November defeat of Propositions 1, 2 and 3 back into…
The governor’s Task Force for Improving Education is meeting today from 10-3, at the Yanke Family Research Park, Room 207, 202. E. Parkcenter Blvd. in Boise. The morning portion of the meeting is being streamed live here, though the afternoon work session won't be streamed;…
Idaho Public Television has been named the No. 1 most-viewed PBS station in the country, based on Nielsen ratings, IPTV general manager Peter Morrill told lawmakers this morning.”This is news,” he said to appreciative murmurs from lawmakers on the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee. It means a…
Idaho’s state scholarship programs for college students lag far behind most states in the region, Mike Rush, director of the Office of the State Board of Education, told the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee this morning. “Idaho has, I think, the second-lowest amount of need-based scholarship money…
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — President Abraham Lincoln signed the paperwork creating the Idaho Territory in 1863. Lincoln was also close friends with Idaho's first territorial governor William Wallace. So considering Lincoln's important ties to Idaho's earliest days,…
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