Gov. Butch Otter has named Mary Hughes as acting director of the Idaho Department of Finance while the current head of the agency is in the hospital. Director Gavin Gee suffered a brain injury while jogging earlier this week...
This week’s night’s “Idaho Reports” on Idaho Public Television includes co-host Melissa Davlin’s interview with Rep. Maxine Bell and Sen. Shawn Keough, the two co-chairs of the Legislature’s powerful joint budget committee; an in-depth interview with Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden; and a a report on serious problems with non-emergency...
Here’s a news story from the Associated Press: By Kimberlee Kruesi BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The fight over Idaho's faltering horse racing industry is building into face-off between the Legislature and the governor's office. Senate President Pro Tem Brent Hill emailed Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter's...
Years of litigation over giant megaloads of industrial equipment that had been proposed to travel on scenic Highway 12 through north-central Idaho, along the Clearwater and Lochsa river corridors, has ended today with a settlement that bans future megaloads, but continues to allow, on a…
Legislative budget writers heard a pitch from a small but rapidly growing piece of the education system this morning, as STEM Action Center Executive Director Angela Hemingway presented her request for a $4.5 million budget next year – an 85 percent increase that’s backed by...
Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, rose on the floor of the House today and requested a personal privilege. “The lady has the floor,” House Speaker Scott Bedke said. Scott said, “Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I respectfully request that I be returned to my committees, so that…
More than two dozen people testified at this morning’s joint Health & Welfare “listening hearing,” and many more still wanted to speak. “I want to thank everyone for coming today,” said House Health & Welfare Chairman Fred Wood, R-Burley. “I know some of you didn’t…
In further testimony at today’s Health & Welfare public hearing: Ahniah Selene Summers of Boise told the lawmakers that he’s been in a wheelchair since breaking his back and neck years ago. His problem came when he needed his wheelchair replaced. He went back and...
In more testimony at today’s Health & Welfare public hearing: Josh Komenda, president of Veyo, a company based in San Diego that has contracts in six states and that took over the statewide non-emergency medical transport contract with the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare…
In more testimony at today’s health and welfare “listening hearing” in the Lincoln Auditorium: Dr. Kara Kuntz, a family physician and geriatrician from Boise, shared the story of a patient whose life was ruined due to illness and inability to pay for care, speaking with...
Among those testifying at the joint “listening session” of the House and Senate Health & Welfare committees this morning thus far: Darren Talley, with White Tail Transportation in Priest River, told the lawmakers that he and other non-emergency medical transport providers “request that you restore...
There’s a large crowd for this morning’s joint Health & Welfare public hearing. “We’re here to listen today,” said Senate Health & Welfare Chairman Lee Heider, R-Twin Falls. “We have a great many people that have signed the list today. … We welcome each of…
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