Idaho’s GOP congressional incumbents have double-digit leads over their Democratic challengers, according to an Idaho Politics Weekly poll released today, but most Idahoans still haven’t decided between either of the candidates in the nonpartisan Idaho Supreme Court race. The poll, conducted by Utah pollster Dan…
New federal standards mean that children from low-income families will spend more time in Head Start preschool classes. The Times-News reports that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced new performance standards last week that are designed to improve the Head Start program. Under the new guidelines...
The Idaho Legislature’s Foster Care Study Committee is meeting today in the state Capitol; you can watch live here. The 10-member panel, which includes lawmakers from both houses and both parties, is meeting all day; its agenda includes data and presentations from the state Department…
Two Idaho firefighters received the Idaho Medal of Honor on Friday, marking their "exceptional courage and bravery" during life-saving rescues in 2015. Idaho Falls Fire Department firefighter Sean Allen was honored for entering an unstable, submerged vehicle in a chilly irrigation canal, cutting a victim free and pulling pulling him to safety...
Here's my full column from Sunday's Spokesman-Review, looking at the potential for a sizable state budget surplus; Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan's Jim Risch story; and the latest sparring in the U.S. Senate over confirmation of federal judge nominees, including Idaho's: By Betsy Z. Russell…
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