From Coeur d'Alene Press report of chamber gathering for Kootenai County legislators: Rep. Eric Redman, R-Athol, said with his committee assignments he plans to work on the Common Core teaching curriculum and Medicaid expansion. "I have a very strong understanding of the Medicaid issue with my experience in health insurance," he said. Redman is also a proponent of taking federal lands back into state hands. He said more than 60 percent of the land in Idaho is currently owned by the federal government. He said the state of Utah had three universities study the idea of taking its federal land back, and they determined they could do it financially. "And that is with cost of fire suppression factored in," Redman said. Full story here.

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