Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador is drawing attention today for defending the armed protesters who took over an eastern Oregon wildlife refuge as “peaceful” practitioners of “civil disobedience.” At a “Conversations with Conservatives” event on Capitol Hill today hosted by the Heritage Foundation, Labrador was asked...
Idaho’s new standardized test — the SBAC — could face an important midterm this legislative session, reports Kevin Richert of Idaho Education News. Known as the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium exam, for the multistate compact that created and devised it, the test went through a...
When the Idaho Republican Party holds its state central committee winter meeting this Friday and Saturday, 13 proposed resolutions will be considered by the resolutions committee on Friday, though only those approved there would proceed to a full central committee vote on Saturday; typically only...
Idaho Republicans will soon be asked to approve an array of resolutions, which include proposed measures such as radically changing the structure of committees inside the Idaho Statehouse and ensuring that all bills receive a legislative hearing...
Should any legal gun owner in Idaho be able to carry a concealed gun without a concealed weapons permit? Two state lawmakers think so, and are working on legislation they call “constitutional carry” that they plan to introduce within the first weeks of this year’s…
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