The federal government broke its word over a land deal with an Indian tribe from Idaho and Nevada, reports AP reporter John Miller, stymieing economic development plans that could include gaming and resurrecting native groups' enduring mistrust for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Click below…
Here's a link to reporter Mike Butts' full report in the Idaho Press-Tribune today on last night's Canyon County GOP meeting, at which the county central committee rejected a move to investigate Chairman John McGee's recent DUI and instead voted 23-6 in favor of a…
Here's the story on Idaho's credit rating upgrade: It happened in the spring. In March, Moody's upgraded Idaho's rating from AA2 to AA1, and in April, Standard & Poor's upgraded it from AA to AA+. "That's one notch below the AAA," said state Treasurer Ron…
The Rexburg Standard Journal reports today that Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo, in a speech to the Rexburg Chamber of Commerce yesterday and in an interview with the paper, said the "Gang of Six" debt reduction plan he helped fashion is "the most powerful solution that's…
Gov. Butch Otter took to the national airwaves last night, in a phone interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren, touting Idaho's budget management as a "model for what the nation ought to do." Otter noted Idaho's recently upgraded credit rating of AA+, the same…
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