Board members of the Idaho health insurance exchange said Tuesday that they will keep secret the findings of a $15,000 taxpayer-funded investigation into how one of its own members won a lucrative no-bid contract, the Associated Press reports. Your Health Idaho board chairman Stephen Weeg…
Idaho House and Senate education chairman Rep. Reed DeMordaunt, R-Eagle, and Sen. John Goedde, R-Coeur d’Alene, have penned a joint “Open Letter to Idaho Legislators” they distributed to Idaho newspapers, among others, this afternoon, urging that the state stick with its new Idaho Core Standards…
Land exchanges designed to let a fifth of the lake cabin owners at Priest Lake get ownership of the land under their cabins – while trading the state higher-yielding commercial property – are likely dead, mired in legal and political problems; you can read my…
There’s a substantial crowd of folks gathered in the garden-level hallway of the state Capitol this morning, as two state boards – the Idaho Land Board, and the state health insurance exchange board – hold closed-door executive sessions at the same time, in meeting rooms…
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter is getting ready for a nine-day trade mission in Russia.The Republican governor, his staff and Idaho business leaders will leave Boise Friday. The trip caps a busy year of…