This could be the year that the Idaho Legislature finally moves toward long-sought goals, from restoring school funding back to 2009 levels to holding a hearing on whether to ban discrimination against gays. Boosting funding for maintaining the state’s deterioriating road system is high on…
About 750,000 Idaho residents, or nearly 47 percent of the state’s population, consider themselves hunters or anglers. Yet less than half of them buy hunting or fishing licenses each year, reports S-R reporter Becky Kramer. Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials want to increase…
State Sen. Dan Schmidt, D-Moscow, a member of the legislative panel that oversees the troubled Idaho Education Network has sent out a guest editorial to Idaho newspapers entitled, “What We Should (Have) Be(en) Doing About the IEN.” In it, he calls for the state to…
More than 1,500 people attended the state’s official Inaugural Ball at the state Capitol on Saturday night; read this post for a report and photos from the non-partisan public event...
In a somewhat anticlimactic ruling, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday rejected motions for an en banc review – a reconsideration by a larger, 11-judge panel – of the October ruling overturning bans on same-sex marriage in Idaho and Nevada. Idaho already…
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