Here are some samples of what you'll hear when candidates Vaughn Ward and Raul Labrador appear together on tonight's "Idaho Reports" program on Idaho Public TV:Ward: "It's not about that my wife works in I.T., it's that Fannie Mae was allowed to do certain things…
Wow - on tonight's "Idaho Reports" program on Idaho Public Television - the last show of the season - 1st District GOP congressional candidates Vaughn Ward and Raul Labrador appear together and take questions from a panel on which I join Jim Weatherby, Kevin Richert,…
U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo has posted his responses to a "Tea Party Boise" candidate survey on his campaign website, including this oddity: Crapo told the group he "strongly agree(s)" with the statement, "I support term limits for Senators (2) and members of the House (3)."…
A federal judge has ruled that a class-action lawsuit over violence at Idaho's privately-operated state prison, the Idaho Correctional Center, can proceed, after the prison's operator, Corrections Corp. of America, tried to stop the case from expanding beyond the first named victim. U.S. District Judge…
Four candidates have filed as write-ins for the May 25 primary election in time for this week's deadline, including one for governor and three for seats in the state House. If candidates don't file as write-ins, then any write-in votes for them don't count, no…
Brooklyn, N.Y. attorney William Bryk, who's running in the Democratic primary for the seat now held by GOP U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo, still hasn't been to Idaho - or anywhere west of Buffalo, N.Y, he told Eye on Boise. Nor does he plan to visit…
It turns out that GOP gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammell's 16-foot green T-Rex is an inflatable, like the big balloons you see in parades. Asked where he got it, he said, "I don't know, New York or someplace. We got him online." The big dinosaur, with…
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Republican U.S. House candidate Raul Labrador has a new press secretary ahead of the May 25 primary. Dennis Mansfield, a conservative activist and businessman who volunteered on the late Republican U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth's 1st Congressional District primary race in 1994,…
In last year's city elections, there was some controversy about county GOP central committees making endorsements in nonpartisan city races; few did, and in Bonneville County the move backfired, and the endorsements were either declined or the endorsed candidates lost big. Now comes news that…
Candidates facing off in Idaho's May 25 election for the Idaho Supreme Court and in primary races for Congress and governor will debate live on statewide television as part of the "Idaho Debates," starting next Tuesday with the two candidates in a contested race for…
The contested race for an Idaho Supreme Court seat has heated up, with the court itself now issuing statements disputing claims from the challenger, Lewiston Judge John Bradbury. The court says it's part of a protocol adopted last fall for the court to set straight…
Studded snow tires must be off vehicles in Idaho by Saturday, the Idaho Transportation Department warned today. They've already been illegal for a month in Utah, Oregon and Washington, while Montana lets studded tires be run through May 31 and in Wyoming they're legal all…
GOP gubernatorial challenger Rex Rammell, who's campaigned for office in the past by driving a giant, decorated RV around the state that doubles as a rolling campaign billboard, plans to unveil a new gimmick tomorrow: A giant model of a 16-foot tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur, "which…
Oh, my. We had grape-sized hail today. We had wild, whipping winds. We had warm, soft air, turning cooler and cooler. We had thunder and lightning. And now, glints of brilliant sunshine and double rainbows, followed by more sudden rainstorms under a roiling sky. It's…
Vaughn Ward has paid his property taxes in full on a lot he owns in Valley County, including a late fee of $34. "There are no excuses," Ward, a GOP candidate for the 1st Congressional District seat, told Eye on Boise. "Within minutes after I…
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Republican U.S. House hopeful Vaughn Ward filed a new financial disclosure with the U.S. House detailing about $110,000 worth of family assets he hadn't reported last year. U.S. House candidates and members must…
Congressional candidate Vaughn Ward is delinquent on his Valley County property taxes for the fourth time since 2004, Idaho Statesman reporter Dan Popkey reports today at idahostatesman.com. Popkey reports that Ward and his wife, Kirsten, own a half-acre undeveloped lot in Cascade, across a road…
Idaho Supreme Court Justice Jim Jones, who is unopposed for re-election this year, has issued a two-page statement responding to claims made by another judicial candidate, state District Judge John Bradbury, in Bradbury's campaign against state Supreme Court Justice Roger Burdick."The candidate's materials make inaccurate…
The Idaho Statesman has a front-page article by reporter Dan Popkey today about an ad that congressional candidate Vaughn Ward placed on the "Drudge Report" Web site that got him in trouble with the U.S. Marines, who told Ward the ad violated military regulations about…
Idaho has much at stake in Washington's big U.S. Supreme Court case over whether referendum petition signatures should be public or not. "Our initiative and referendum statute is very similar to Washington's and Oregon's," said Idaho Secretary of State Ben Ysursa, at whose request Idaho…
Idaho's state Department of Agriculture plans to open its first boat-inspection stations of the season tomorrow, near Bruneau where highways 51 and 78 intersect, and near Marsing on Highway 95. An additional check station on U.S. 93 just north of the Nevada state line will…
Idaho's congressional delegation - Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch and Congressmen Walt Minnick and Mike Simpson - issued the following statement on the big Idaho Guard deployment to Iraq announced today: “First and foremost, our thoughts are with the families whose loved ones will…
More than 2,700 members of the Idaho Army National Guard's 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team, shown here training near Gowen Field, are being mobilized in September for deployment to Iraq, the guard announced today. About 1,500 of the Guard members being deployed are from Idaho;…
In Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden's legal challenge of the Land Board's cabin-site rent decision, the Idaho Supreme Court has ordered oral arguments, to be held June 9 before the Supreme Court. Wasden, a member of the Land Board, last month challenged the constitutionality of…
Michael Chadwick of Post Falls has announced he's withdrawing from the race and endorsing GOP rival Raul Labrador, and also launching a campaign for the U.S. Senate in the 2014 election. That's when current U.S. Sen. Jim Risch's term in office ends; Chadwick didn't say…
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