Sun Valley Mayor Wayne Willich disputed an earlier account on this blog that suggested he had grabbed a reporter's arm during a tiff after a legislative committee hearing today, saying, "I didn't touch anybody. That actually would be a very low-I.Q. thing to do, and…
Gov. Butch Otter, who is interviewed along with Lt. Gov. Brad Little on tonight's "Idaho Reports" program on Idaho Public TV, says during the interview that he sees legislation that would allow him to fire the Idaho Transportation Department's director as "problematic." "I didn't ask…
Idaho House members threatened to kill funding for implementing the new Coeur d’Alene Lake Management Plan today, causing a delay in voting on the budget bill for the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality. Rep. Dick Harwood, R-St. Maries, told the House he thought the management…
Legislation to sell commemorative gold medallions to benefit the state highway account has passed the House on a 44-19 vote. "We should be creative and industrious and proactive and bold, and we should have tools like this in our toolbox ... to address highway funding,"…
Rep. Marge Chadderdon's flag-manufacturing bill, HB 249, was up in the House this morning, but when it came time, members of leadership from both sides and Rep. Chadderdon, R-Coeur d'Alene, were called up to the speaker's desk, and a rather long confab followed, while House…
The House has voted 32-32 on HB 263, Rep. Phil Hart's bill to move the state toward constructing and compiling a searchable database of all the state's spending and putting it online. "It is part of our public policy that we do provide this transparency,"…
After a long and bitter hearing that pitted some Sun Valley city council members against others and ultimately resulted in the Senate State Affairs Committee killing a bill brought by a temporary senator who's a former mayor of Sun Valley, the general manager of the…
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