Idaho Lt. Gov. Brad Little pressed the Senate and House Education committees today to support his resolution backing the state’s “go-on” goal, which calls for 60 percent of Idahoans age 25-34 to have a post-secondary degree or certificate by the year 2020. “It starts in...
Gov. Butch Otter has named attorney Susan Buxton to head the state Division of Human Resources, effective March 1. She replaces Vicki Tokita, who retired in 2014; since then, David Fulkerson, fiscal officer for the state Division of Financial Management, has been filling in as…
After hearing testimony both for and against HB 380, the tax-cut bill, the House Revenue & Taxation Committee debated the bill and voted down two competing motions before passing it. “I agree education is important,” Rep. Mike Moyle, R-Star, the bill’s lead sponsor, told the…
House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, R-Star, opened the Rev & Tax committee hearing on his tax-cut bill this morning by saying, “I think there’s a misnomer, if you listen to some of the people, that Idaho is right where it needs to be, that we’re...
House Minority Leader John Rusche, D-Lewiston, has returned to the House chamber today, after naming substitutes for the first three weeks while he helped care for his wife, Kay, while she underwent treatment for cancer. “She had brain surgery the first of last month,” Rusche…
The House State Affairs Committee has voted 13-3 in favor of HB 387, to require community college trustees to run from designated zones. Rep. Greg Chaney, R-Caldwell, said community colleges boards currently don’t provide enough representation to rural areas within their districts. Mark Browning, vice president...
After much testimony and discussion, including a rant from former fringe candidate for governor Harley Brown, the House Revenue & Taxation Committee has voted 13-2 in favor of HB 380, Rep. Mike Moyle’s tax-cut bill. The only two “no” votes came from Reps. Mat Erpelding, D-Boise, and Mark Nye, D-Pocatello...
The House State Affairs Committee, which had been scheduled to take up HB 388 this morning, a proposal from Secretary of State Lawerence Denney for new public records exemptions to protect certain contact information in candidate and PAC filings, has put that off. “We’re going…
House Majority Leader Mike Moyle’s tax-cut bill, which lowers individual and corporate income tax rates while raising the grocery tax credit by $10, is up for a hearing in the House Revenue & Taxation Committee this morning; you can listen live here. The meeting starts...
Sen. Steve Vick, R-Dalton Gardens, is bringing back his proposal to change the Idaho Constitution to allow the Legislature to call itself back into special session, solely for the purpose of overriding a veto by the governor. Vick proposed the same constitutional amendment in 2014...
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