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Eye On Boise archive for April 5, 2006

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2006

More eyes on Boise

I’m off Thursday and Friday for a long-planned family gathering, but Spokesman-Review reporter Meghann Cuniff will be keeping an eye on Boise in my absence, and posting updates to this blog. Got tips for Meghann? Contact her at meghann.cuniff@gmail.com

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HB 876 clears Senate committee on 5-4 vote

The big combo property tax reform bill, HB 876, just cleared the Senate Local Government & Tax Committee on a 5-4 vote, after more than an hour-long hearing in a surprisingly packed Gold Room – the Capitol’s largest hearing room – despite just moments of…

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Whoops...

It turns out that the House recessed without first taking the formal step of transmitting the bill it’d just passed to the Senate – which means it hasn’t arrived over there, and the Senate can’t refer it to committee and hold a 2 p.m. committee…

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Speaker wins hands-down

The House just voted 65-2 to uphold Speaker Bruce Newcomb’s ruling in a face-off with Rep. Bill Sali, R-Kuna, over Sali’s attempt to split up the various parts that make up HB 876, the combination property tax reform bill. “The decision of the speaker has…

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The debate is on

The House is vigorously debating HB 876, the new combo bill that lumps together increasing the homeowner’s exemption, removing the school maintenance property tax levy, and raising the sales tax by 1.25 cents to make up the lost school funding. Among the points brought up…

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North Idaho secede from the state? 

A passing remark in Senate debate yesterday from Sen. Mike Jorgenson, R-Hayden Lake, has prompted talk about North Idaho seceding from the state – though Jorgenson cautioned this morning, “I don’t know of any formal effort to try and do that, but there are people…

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