More national news for Idaho: A Wall Street Journal investigative report on how Taser is courting police departments around the country to convince them to give it lucrative no-bid contracts for police body cams uses the Boise Police Department as its Exhibit A. “Last spring,…
After the Constitutional Defense Council meeting in Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden’s office today, I asked him about the framed item, set among various photos behind Wasden’s desk, that just featured the number 367,737. Wasden said that’s the number of votes he received in the…
Here’s my full story on the 4-0 Constitutional Defense Council vote today to pay $280,000 in attorney fees to a group of unions who successfully challenged an anti-union bill that Idaho lawmakers passed in 2011. James Piotrowski, attorney for the unions, said, “I personally told the Legislature back in 2011 that we would challenge this...
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter hosted a ceremony in his office today to celebrate the enactment of SB 1407, the budget bill for the Idaho State Historical Society, which shows an unusual percentage increase – a 153 percent increase in state funding. But that’s almost entirely…
Idaho’s state Land Board approved a state timber harvest plan for 2017 this week that calls for cutting 247 million board feet of timber, as part of a 50-year plan to cut the inventory of harvestable timber on state endowment lands from more than 7...
The sheriff of Harney County, Oregon, was contending with armed militants for months before they illegally occupied a national wildlife refuge in January. Sheriff Dave Ward was in Spokane Tuesday at the invitation of the FBI to speak to law enforcement officials about his experiences…
Authorities say an Idaho woman living in a couple's vacant home without their permission has agreed to move out. Nampa Police Department spokesman Sgt. Tim Riha says the 46-year-old claims she signed a lease and paid $1,500 to someone to rent the house. Homeowners Brian and Renae Prindle say they don't know that person and were not renting...
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