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STEM initiative funding fails 17-2

Rep. Phylis King, D-Boise, demonstrates a 5-year-old's Play-doh electric circuit project to lawmakers on JFAC (Betsy Z. Russell)
Rep. Phylis King, D-Boise, demonstrates a 5-year-old's Play-doh electric circuit project to lawmakers on JFAC (Betsy Z. Russell)

Rep. Phylis King, D-Boise, brought props this morning to support her bid to fund part of the Idaho Commission for Libraries request for $183,700 for a STEM initiative. “This was put together by a 5-year-old,” she told JFAC. “It shows that Play-doh can conduct electricity. … This is completing a circuit.” On a 17-2 vote, JFAC voted against funding the proposed STEM initiative. More from Betsy Russell/Eye On Boise here.



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.