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• Eye on Boise: Lawmakers ready if city won’t go their way

  March 31, 2013 on Page B2 BOISE – The state Legislature makes the laws, including the ones that say cities can govern local planning and zoning issues. “So if we give them the authority, we also …

• Huckleberries: GOP committee shows love for Steve Adams

  March 31, 2013 on Page B3 City Attorney Mike Gridley may think Steve Adams is a moron (for threatening legal action that could sidetrack a federally mandated expansion of the sewer plant). And Mayor Sandi Bloem …

• Former Idaho pol’s poaching conviction upheld

  March 29, 2013 Colorful former Idaho gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammell has lost his second appeal over a 2010 elk poaching charge, with the Idaho Court of Appeals ruling unanimously that two lower courts … 8

• Health worker protection bill fails

  March 29, 2013 on Page A6 BOISE – Coeur d’Alene Rep. Luke Malek’s bill to make attacking a health care worker a felony – a measure requested in part by Kootenai Medical Center, which says violent …

• Assault bill killed amid CdA lawmaker dispute

  March 28, 2013 BOISE – Coeur d’Alene Rep. Luke Malek’s bill to make attacking a health care worker a felony — a measure requested in part by Kootenai Medical Center — was killed … 6

• Idaho school budget rejected by one vote in Senate

  March 28, 2013 on Page A1 BOISE – In a stunning move Wednesday, the Idaho Senate rejected the public school budget by one vote – sending lawmakers back to the drawing board and derailing plans to … 4

• Idaho Senate OKs wolf fund

  March 28, 2013 on Page A6 BOISE – The Senate voted 26-8 to divert money from a Department of Fish and Game hunter-access program to wolf control, an effort backed by the state’s livestock industry. Wednesday’s … 1

• Idaho records

  March 28, 2013 on Page A6 For 03-28-2013

• Coeur d’Alene Mines moving head office to Chicago

  March 27, 2013 Coeur d’Alene Mines Corp. announced today it will move its headquarters to Chicago this year. 5

• Idaho Senate kills school budget, derailing planned end to session

  March 27, 2013 In a stunning and historic move today, the Idaho Senate defeated the public school budget by one vote – sending lawmakers back to the drawing board and derailing plans to … 7

• Idaho private school tuition tax credits bill dies

  March 27, 2013 on Page A7 BOISE – An Idaho Senate committee has killed legislation to grant $10 million a year in tax credits for donations for scholarships to private schools, a plan Coeur d’Alene Sen. … 2

• Idaho Senate kills private school tax credits bill

  March 26, 2013 BOISE – A bill to grant $10 million in tax credits to support scholarships in private schools was killed by an Idaho senate committee today. 13

• Abortions rise 36 percent among Idaho women

  March 26, 2013 BOISE — The number of abortions among Idaho women rose 36 percent between 2001 and 2011, with about 40 percent of the procedures happening in other states, according to a … 11

• Idaho marriage rate at 60-year low

  March 25, 2013 on Page A6 The state’s marriage rate in 2011 fell to its lowest point in the last 60 years, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare says. The Coeur d’Alene Press reported that … 1

• Driver killed along mountain road near Kellogg

  March 24, 2013 The driver of a Honda Civic died early today in Shoshone County after the car went off a forest road and down an embankment, struck a rock and large tree, …

• Moose declining in Idaho, spreading in Washington

  March 24, 2013 on Page C14 Moose in Washington appear to be bucking the decline that’s plaguing the animals across most of the lower 48 states, a Washington Fish and Wildlife Department biologist says. Rich Harris, … 2

• Eye on Boise: Lawmakers hear of Medicaid expansion’s upside

  March 24, 2013 on Page B2 BOISE – Idaho’s House and Senate Health and Welfare committees heard rather stunning figures Friday, including this one: A University of Idaho economist estimates that Idaho’s economy would get a …

• Muslim student says she feels sense of kinship at BYU-Idaho

  March 24, 2013 on Page B3 REXBURG, Idaho – Like many students at Brigham Young University-Idaho, Schada Alkamari felt spiritually drawn to the religious university. But the Moroccan citizen didn’t enroll to immerse herself in the …

• Huckleberries: CdA officials regress to grade-school antics

  March 24, 2013 on Page B7 Do you suppose that the hard-working 911 dispatcher bit her tongue when Coeur d’Alene Councilman Steve Adams SOS’d to tattle on City Attorney Mike Gridley? A short version of the …

• Extra-heavy rigs to lumber on Idaho highways

  March 23, 2013 on Page A8 BOISE – Extra-heavy trucks could roll on North Idaho highways under controversial legislation that passed the Idaho House on Friday and headed to the governor’s desk. The extra-heavy trucks – … 1

• Idaho House passes statewide heavy-trucks bill

  March 22, 2013 BOISE – Extra-heavy trucks could roll on North Idaho highways under controversial legislation that passed the Idaho House on Friday and headed to the governor’s desk. 3

• Senate OKs Otter’s health insurance exchange proposal

  March 22, 2013 on Page A5 BOISE – Idaho Gov. Butch Otter won his biggest legislative victory in his seven years in office Thursday, persuading reluctant GOP lawmakers to approve his plan for a state-based health … 6

• Hundley pleads not guilty, admits using racial slur

  March 21, 2013 ATLANTA — A man accused of slapping a toddler on an Atlanta-bound flight and using a racial slur has pleaded not guilty to assault in federal court. 36

• Otter wins exchange fight with Legislature

  March 21, 2013 The Idaho Legislature has made it official – Gov. Butch Otter has won his biggest legislative victory in his seven years in office, persuading reluctant GOP lawmakers to approve his … 1

• Tuition tax credits bill passes Idaho House

  March 21, 2013 on Page A5 BOISE – The Idaho House narrowly approved a $10 million program to provide tax credits to businesses and individuals who fund scholarships for private and religious schools. Supporters say the … 9

• Idaho records

  March 21, 2013 on Page A6 For 03-21-2013

• Idaho House favors private school tax credits

  March 20, 2013 The House voted 35-33 for a tax break for those who donate to private and religious school scholarships, saying it will promote school choice for parents who don’t think the … 8

• Idaho House OKs cut in personal property tax

  March 20, 2013 on Page A6 BOISE – The Idaho House voted 67-2 on Tuesday to eliminate the personal property tax on equipment for about 90 percent of Idaho businesses, favoring a plan by counties instead … 3

• House approves cookie tax exemption

  March 20, 2013 on Page A6 BOISE – The Idaho House has voted 59-11 in favor of removing the state’s 6 percent sales tax on Girl Scout cookies. Idaho and Hawaii are the only states that … 2

• Spring arrives Wednesday with snow, rain, wind

  March 19, 2013 The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory on Wednesday for the Spokane region, Columbia Basin and parts of North Idaho. 5

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