Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee kicked off Idaho's GOP convention tonight, with a talk to hundreds of state delegates charged with selecting a new state chairman and amending the party platform. Huckabee, who is also a former 2008 presidential candidate, received a warm welcome from…
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: VICTOR, Idaho (AP) — A small eastern Idaho town near the border with Wyoming has passed an ordinance banning discrimination against a person because of sexual orientation or gender identity. Boise State Public Radio reports in a…
Here are a few more tidbits from the state GOP convention in Moscow, courtesy of Melissa Davlin of Idaho Reports; the convention is kicking off today: * Idaho GOP Chairman Barry Peterson announced that he’s asked 1st District Congressman Raul Labrador to serve as chairman…
Up at the Idaho Republican Party convention in Moscow, today’s schedule includes the party’s executive committee meeting, ahead of the big convention activities that run from tonight through Saturday. Melissa Davlin of Idaho Reports is there, and reports that there already are plenty of fireworks…
GOP activist Rod Beck has 70 names on his petition to deny credentials to Ada County’s delegation to the Idaho Republican Party convention, which runs through Saturday. Among them: House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, R-Star; Sen. Russ Fulcher, R-Meridian, and his wife Kara; House Majority…
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is scheduled to arrive in Texas on Friday, the AP reports; the Hailey native has been recuperating at a military hospital in Germany since his rescue after five years of Taliban captivity. Click below for the latest report from the Associated Press.
Idaho's first rabid bat of the year has been confirmed in eastern Idaho, and a teenager who found the injured bat in a local park and was bitten is being treated for rabies exposure, but is expected to be fine. “Rabies is a fatal viral…
Idaho’s gross state product showed the third highest percentage increase in the nation in 2013, up 6.9 percent from the year before, the Idaho Department of Labor reports. The figure rose on the strength of a surge in health care, finance, construction and natural resource…
Ed Rendell, former governor of Pennsylvania and mayor of Philadelphia, former Democratic National Committee chairman and a revered figure in Pennsylvania and in Democratic politics, will give the keynote address at the Idaho Democratic Party’s convention next weekend in Moscow. The Dems will kick off…
As Idaho Republicans head to Moscow for the state party convention in hopes of unifying a deeply divided party, state Sen. Russ Fulcher, who unsuccessfully challenged Gov. Butch Otter in the GOP primary, isn’t too optimistic about unity. “We are very, very split as a…
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare says a decision about where to build a $1.5 million state-funded behavioral-health crisis center will likely be within a week. Spokeswoman Niki Forbing-Orr tells the…
The University of Idaho's Boise law school expansion, which will add second-year law students to the existing third-year law program in Boise, has won the approval of the American Bar Association and will offer its first classes in August, the U of I has announced.…
In Facebook posts written before he vanished from his military base in Afghanistan, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl spoke of his frustration with the world and his desire to change the status quo, the AP reports. In his personal writings, he seemed to focus his frustrations on…
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