The Idaho Legislature’s K-12 Educational System Interim Committee adjourned its meeting yesterday without any votes and announced it wouldn’t meet again – leaving hanging the question of what, if anything, the panel was recommending back to the Legislature after its three meetings this fall. Now,…
The Idaho Potato Commission has sworn in three new commissioners, which wouldn’t normally be very big news, except that one of them, Peggy Grover, is the first female ever named to the commission. Grover recently finished a term as chair of the Idaho Grower Shippers…
A contractor based in Longview, Wash. has submitted the highest bid for a failed polysilicon plant in Pocatello, the AP and the Idaho State Journal report today; click below for their full report. JH Kelly Inc. offered $5.27 million for the defunct Hoku plant at…
Here's a news item from the Associated Press and KBOI-TV: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Innocence Project has lost its primary source of funding and won't take on any new cases. Director Greg Hampikian told Boise television station KBOI (http://bit.ly/1hMG78r ) that the U.S.…
Idaho's state Land Board has rescheduled its special meeting, originally set for yesterday, to Nov. 12 - next Tuesday - at 10:30 a.m. in room WW53 of the state Capitol. The agenda is identical to the one posted for yesterday's cancelled meeting: Extending cottage site…
Voters in Ketchum and Hailey have approved a local-option tax on lodging and rental cars to subsidize commercial airline service, with the projected $2 million a year proceeds to help entice airlines to serve the Wood River Valley, either through subsidies or advertising support. The…
In yesterday’s city elections across the state, some longtime mayors were defeated – including Nancy Chaney of Moscow and Tom Dale of Nampa – while others, including Brian Blad of Pocatello and Garret Nancolas of Caldwell, were easily re-elected. Boise voters narrowly rejected two bond…
Idaho’s state Land Board had been scheduled for a special meeting this afternoon, but now it’s been canceled. The reason: Attorney General Lawrence Wasden raised concerns about inadequate notice of the meeting; it likely will be rescheduled soon. There were only two items on the…
Today is Election Day for cities across the state, with many voting on city council seats, many electing mayors, and some voting on local ballot measures like Boise’s parks and public safety bond issue measures. Some local taxing districts also have elections today, but no…
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Evel Knievel's 1974 Snake River jump site and 425 acres along the Snake River Canyon are now part of the Twin Falls city limits. The city council on Monday unanimously approved annexing…
A federal judge has rejected some rules governing protests on Idaho property surrounding the Capitol in Boise, concluding that neither a seven-day limit on rallies nor allowing state officials discretion to waive restrictions for some groups but not others meets constitutional free-speech muster, the AP…
Idaho ranks near the bottom nationally for preschool enrollment, particularly in low-income households, Idaho Education News reports today. A study released today by the Annie E. Casey Foundation found that only five states ranked lower than Idaho on that measure; forty states offer public preschool,…
Boise's new ordinance against aggressive panhandling doesn't take effect until January, but today it was challenged in federal court on grounds it violates the First Amendment rights to free speech and expression and that it places an unfair burden on people struggling to make ends…
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Big pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson is paying $1.3 million to Idaho as part of a multi-billion-dollar national settlement over allegations it illegally promoted an antipsychotics drug. The Idaho attorney general's office announced…
Yourhealthidaho.org, Idaho’s state health insurance exchange, is not planning to raise its fee per health plan from the current 1.5 percent level, executive director Amy Dowd told lawmakers this morning. “There has been some confusion on this issue based on work that my staff engaged…
Idaho’s health insurance exchange executive director, Amy Dowd, told lawmakers this morning that the state won’t get any numbers from the feds on how many Idahoans have enrolled in health insurance through the exchange until the end of November; she had earlier said she expected…
Ronald Lee Macik is inmate 12680, the lowest number among 8,700 felons in Idaho prisons, reports AP reporter John Miller. Nobody else locked up in 1969 when guards first escorted a 21-year-old Macik through the State Penitentiary's sally port remains behind bars. Now 65, he's…
Idaho GOP Rep. Raul Labrador, who has been at the center of talks in Congress on immigration reform, now says he now believes reform likely won’t happen this year after all, and he’s advised House GOP leaders that “it’s not the time” to negotiate with…
1st District Rep. Raul Labrador is headed into what could be hostile territory next week – Idaho Falls and the Idaho National Laboratory, a huge employer in Idaho’s 2nd Congressional District. Labrador twice voted to gut the national nuclear research funding that operates the facility,…
Advocates of extending civil rights protections to gays and lesbians are getting a big boost from the author of the Idaho Human Rights Act, former Republican Gov. Phil Batt, reports Dan Popkey of the Idaho Statesman. Popkey writes that on Tuesday, as Batt, 86, became…
Sen. Russ Fulcher, R-Meridian, who’s on a “listening tour” around Idaho as part of exploring whether to challenge GOP Gov. Butch Otter in the May primary election, said during a recent stop in Pocatello that the Legislature has not yet addressed the state’s new Common…
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