During this morning’s state Land Board meeting, board members got into something of a debate over a proposed constitutional amendment lawmakers have approved this year for the November ballot. It would amend Idaho’s Constitution to ensure that the Legislature can approve or reject agency rules...
Idaho’s state Board of Examiners voted unanimously this morning to approve payment of $280,000 in attorney fees for the state’s failed legal defense of an anti-union bill passed by the Idaho Legislature in 2011; the payment request will be referred to the state’s Constitutional Defense...
Big Idaho GOP donor Frank VanderSloot says he’s disillusioned with the field for president this year, which he characterized this way: “Three people are bona fide liars and one is a socialist.” “Where we got to is pretty strange,” VanderSloot told the Idaho State Journal…
Idaho’s faith healing exemption from prosecution for child deaths or medical neglect hit the national airwaves this morning, as NBC’s “Today Show” featured the story of Mariah Walton, a 20-year-old Idaho woman who suffers from lifelong disabilities because her parents didn’t seek medical treatment when…
During an interview on Friday, I asked former Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus – elected governor four times as a Democrat – what he thinks of the current infighting with the Idaho GOP. “Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people,” Andrus responded with a grin.…
Take that, Wisconsin! Glanbia Cheese reports today that together with partner Southwest Cheese, the cheesemaker “swept the boards” at the 2016 World Championship Cheese Contest in Wisconsin last week, bringing home a record-breaking 18 medals, including six gold, eight silver and four bronze. That includes a gold medal in Monterey Jack & Walnut...
Idaho state schools Superintendent Sherri Ybarra is on her post-legislative session tour, addressing education officials – and some lawmakers – at gatherings around the state about what came out of the session for Idaho schools. Idaho EdNews reporter Clark Corbin covered the Boise session today,…
Today’s Idaho Press-Tribune takes a look at progress under Idaho’s “Justice Reinvestment” initiative, which passed in 2014 and sought to reduce lengthy incarceration of non-violent offenders, reserve prison cells for the most violent and reform Idaho’s probation and parole system to try to end a…
The AP has a report today on the state investigation into contributions to the “Integrity in Government PAC,” which has been ongoing since January. The PAC has been active recently running newspaper ads targeting Gov. Butch Otter and the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry,...
Tonight’s “Idaho Reports” includes a roundup of the events of the past week, and co-host Melissa Davlin’s interview with Wayne Hoffman, president of the Idaho Freedom Foundation. On the pundits panel, Corey Cook of Boise State University, Bill Manny of the Idaho Statesman, and Kimberlee...
A Republican central committeeman covertly filmed the head of Idaho's GOP in an effort to bolster his claims that a secret society had been formed to oust certain members from party positions. The video didn't reveal evidence of a secret society, but did show the top GOP official criticizing prominent Republicans, the Post Register reports...
The White House is criticizing Idaho Sen. Jim Risch, after he said yesterday that he won’t meet with President Obama’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, until after a Senate committee votes on the nomination, and said he wants a conservative nominee more…
U.S. Attorney for Idaho Wendy Olson is in Pocatello this afternoon, where she’s holding a press conference and meeting with Muslim, Arab and other international students at Idaho State University in Pocatello to discuss federal hate crimes and civil rights statutes that protect “persons of...
Wild horses tamed by 4-H Club members will be available for adoption this weekend in Boise. The four weanlings ages 8 to 11 months last weekend passed a test that included being led, loaded into a horse trailer...
If you didn’t know that Pocatello’s city flag was derided as the worst in North America in a 2015 TED talk by radio show host and designer Roman Mars, never fear: The city’s flag design committee met Wednesday, with Mars joining it, to start the process of designing a new, better city flag...
Idaho’s state Board of Education has unanimously approved tuition increases requested by the state’s four-year colleges and universities, while noting that the increases, which are roughly 2 to 3 percent for in-state undergraduate students, are similar to last year’s, which were the lowest in 15...
The U.S. Department of Energy lists the Idaho National Laboratory as a possible site for storing about 1,300 dump truck loads of low level radioactive waste, the AP reports. A final environmental impact statement says possible methods of disposal...
The Guardian has published a lengthy story today about Idaho’s faith-healing exemption from prosecution for child deaths, an issue that’s come up repeatedly in the Idaho Legislature since 2014 but not received a hearing. Rep. John Gannon, D-Boise, proposed legislation this year to change the…
Here’s my full story: BOISE – If Republicans maintain control of the Senate next year, Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo could become chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, a panel with broad jurisdiction over the nation’s financial institutions, insurance, the housing industry, securities markets and more.…
Here’s an oddity: On Friday, April 8, I wrote that Gov. Butch Otter had signed his last bill from this year’s legislative session and allowed four others to become law without his signature. His office explained to me that once the session has adjourned sine die, he has 10 days, excluding Sundays, from the time...
The Idaho State Bar will host a forum for the candidates running for the Idaho Supreme Court this spring on Tuesday, April 19, at the Idaho Law & Justice Learning Center; the 4-6 p.m. forum will be streamed live online. The state Bar announced that…
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo weighed in today on the selection process for Idaho’s next federal judge and the prospects for getting nominee Judge David Nye confirmed this year. He said he doesn’t expect the current standoff between the Senate and the White House over hearings…
A Burley man whose efforts revealed secret meetings of county officials has been named the recipient of the 2016 Max Dalton Open Government Award sponsored by the Idaho Newspaper Foundation. Casey Andersen will receive the award, which carries a $1,000 prize along with an original…
Idaho continues to languish well behind its lofty college completion goals, according to a newly released national study, which found that Idaho’s numbers rank 46th in the nation, writes Idaho EdNews. The Lumina Foundation’s latest report on college completion rates looked at 2014 figures for…
Idaho's state Board of Education meets Wednesday and Thursday in Moscow this week, and its agenda includes tuition at the state's four-year colleges and universities, including possible increases and Idaho State University's pilot "tuition-lock" program. As the board meets, the AP reports, it's remaining optimistic…
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