On tonight’s “Idaho Reports” on Idaho Public Television, host Melissa Davlin interviews state Insurance Director Dean Cameron and Rep. Ilana Rubel, D-Boise; there’s a report on health care and the debate over it in Idaho; and footage from this week’s emotional House debate over returning…
Gov. Butch Otter worked for three years to persuade lawmakers to create a state scholarship program for “adult completers” – adults with at least 24 credits who have been out of school for three years but want to return to finish a post-high school degree…
Gov. Butch Otter assembled a large group of backers as he signed the school threats bill into law today. “It is signed, and it is now law, because it has an emergency clause,” he said to loud applause. The bill, HB 665, expands Idaho’s current...
Asked today about the Legislature’s decision to remain in session – and not adjourn sine die – until five days after it’s sent him the final bills of the session, Gov. Butch Otter, didn’t sound terribly pleased. “That’s their prerogative – they could’ve done that...
At a ceremonial signing this morning for HB 578, the internet sales tax bill – which Otter actually had already signed into law – the governor congratulated Rep. Lance Clow, R-Twin Falls, who has proposed a bill on the topic every year for the past…
Here’s some of the reaction in Idaho today to Sen. Jim Risch’s move last night to try to strip out the renaming of the White Clouds Wilderness in Idaho for the late Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus – which delayed the Senate’s vote on the must-pass budget...
The House convened at 9 this morning, and handled some formalities before adjourning until Tuesday at 9 a.m. Speaker Scott Bedke advised all representatives who are interim committee co-chairs that both the House and Senate leadership's desire is that they hold meetings of interim committees…
The $1.3 trillion spending bill Congress approved early Friday was shaped by battles over major issues like immigration, health care and defense. But one of the last disputes involved a Republican Idaho senator's effort to prevent a wilderness area from being renamed for his state's deceased Democratic governor. In the end, Sen. James Risch lost...
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