What if you’re on a two-lane road, and you want to pass another motorist who’s going a couple of miles below the speed limit, but just to get past them safely, you need to exceed the speed limit? Rep. Lance Clow, R-Twin Falls, has an…
Idaho Sen. Jim Risch is staunchly defending his role in blocking a letter from Coretta Scott King from being entered into the record in the U.S. Senate during Tuesday evening’s debate over the confirmation of Jeff Sessions as U.S. attorney general, saying Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren violated Senate rules by bringing up the letter...
House State Affairs Chairman Tom Loertscher, R-Iona, introduced a bill in his committee this morning targeting tribal gaming, seeking to alter part of the law created when voters passed Proposition 1 in 2002 to authorize tribal casinos. Specifically, Loertscher wants to add a clause banning...
A Meridian woman’s years-long push to get state law changed regarding notification of a lapse in life insurance policies is making some headway, reports Times-News reporter Nathan Brown. He writes that Kathy Peterson got a version of her bill introduced in 2014, but it never…
January state tax revenues came in 6.7 percent ahead of projections, $22.9 million higher, largely due to strong individual and corporate income tax collections for the month. The January figures pushed fiscal year to date collections to 2 percent above forecasts, and were 12.3 percent…
Legislation pushed by House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, R-Star, cleared the House Revenue & Taxation Committee yesterday on a party-line vote over objections from cities, counties, library districts and others, to address “foregone” revenue for local governments, the amount that builds up and is available…
President Donald Trump's executive orders have spawned more than 50 lawsuits in the past few weeks, but they earned a "hearty congratulations" from Idaho's chief executive, writes Bill Spence of the Lewiston Tribune. In a recent letter, which Gov. Butch Otter described to the Idaho…
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