Idaho’s unemployment insurance tax rates are set to drop another 16.8 percent in 2015, the Idaho Department of Labor announced today, as the economic recovery eases the pressure on the state’s Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund. The fund went broke in 2009 and 2010 during the…
Idaho Sen. Jim Risch and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, both Republicans who serve on the Senate Intelligence Committee, released a joint statement today blasting the release today of a report on the CIA’s detention program that questions the agency’s claims on the effectiveness of harsh…
More than 45 people gathered at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston last night for the first of four open-government workshops in North Idaho this week featuring Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden. The free sessions, sponsored by Idahoans for Openness in Government, or IDOG (full disclosure…
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Idaho businessman Frank Vandersloot has won an award previously given to former President Ronald Reagan, former hockey star Wayne Gretzky and country music icon Johnny Cash. The Post Register reports that Vandersloot…
A new study by the University of Idaho’s Policy Analysis Group finds it would cost the state up to $111 million a year to manage 16.4 million acres of Forest Service and BLM land in Idaho if the state were to take it over; the…
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