The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is appealing a federal court ruling preventing the sterilizing of a herd of wild horses in southwestern Idaho that opponents of the plan fear could set a precedent. The notice filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Idaho challenges a ruling in September ordering the BLM to revise its 2015 plan. The plan calls...
Anti-deficit activists Alan Simpson, the former GOP senator from Wyoming, and Erskine Bowles, the former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, spoke out today against the GOP tax plan that’s now under consideration in the Senate, warning, “Real tax reform can provide a boost…
A newly appointed state senator in eastern Idaho is in the middle of bankruptcy proceedings. The Post Register reports that Republican Sen. Tony Potts of Idaho Falls filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in March. According to his bankruptcy filing, Potts has roughly $250,000 in debts, including $16,000 in unpaid taxes...
FreedomWorks, a national advocacy and campaign group associated with the tea party movement, has announced its endorsement of Russ Fulcher in the race for Idaho’s open 1st District congressional seat in 2018. Fulcher, a former GOP state senator from Meridian, is facing a crowded GOP…
Longtime Idaho Judge Larry Boyle, who served as a U.S. magistrate judge, an Idaho Supreme Court justice and a state district judge, has died at the age of 74 of complications from Parkinson’s disease; he died on Thanksgiving Day. His full obituary is online here,…
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