Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Agency officials tasked with taking care of Idaho's poor and disabled say people are still struggling despite the state's low unemployment rate and improving economy. Department of Health and Welfare Director Richard Armstrong...
Idaho state schools Superintendent Sherri Ybarra, who is from Mountain Home, has hired Kelly Everitt, who was managing editor of the Mountain Home News for the past 26 years, as her communications specialist, Idaho Education News reports. Reporter Kevin Richert writes that Everitt had announced in a newspaper column last...
Hundreds of people filled the Capitol rotunda on three floors for today’s Martin Luther King Jr./Idaho Human Rights Day commemoration. Lt. Gov. Brad Little, reading an official proclamation, declared, “The celebration of Dr. King's birthday is intended as a time for all Americans to reaffirm…
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: Northern Idaho police have launched a criminal investigation probing the legality of slot-like machines known as instant horse racing terminals, which are slowly gaining popularity across the state. Post Falls Police Chief Scot Haug says detectives are...
In what’s become an annual Idaho tradition, more than 300 people marched from Boise State University to the Capitol today in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr./Idaho Human Rights Day, and are currently holding a rally on the Capitol steps. Changing, “2-4-6-8, Idaho’s too great...
North Idaho lawmakers concerned about “federal overreach” helped kill a bill today that’s been pushed for the past five years by a determined 8th grader who wants to designate the Idaho Giant Salamander as the official state amphibian. Although an Idaho attorney general’s opinion advised…
As lawmakers questioned state Health & Welfare Director Dick Armstrong this morning about his overview of the department’s budget request for next year, Sen. Roy Lacey, D-Pocatello, asked if Armstrong’s proposal about a new medical-homes system would replace the state’s Catastrophic Health Care Fund. Armstrong…
Idaho’s state health insurance exchange, Your Health Idaho, has made the transition to full state operation of its marketplace, state Health & Welfare Director Dick Armstrong told JFAC this morning, and is operating at less than half the cost of most states. “Other states have…
Idaho Health & Welfare Director Dick Armstrong is giving an overview of the giant H&W budget this morning to lawmakers; among the topics he addressed is a replacing the work that Health & Welfare has been doing since 2008 to improve Idaho’s current medical indigency program with a new medical-homes initiative.
President Barack Obama is coming to Boise, for the first time since he appeared here as a candidate in 2008; he’ll speak at Boise State University on Wednesday. His remarks are free and open to the public, but limited tickets are required. They’ll be distributed...
There are festivities to mark the official state Martin Luther King Jr./Idaho Human Rights Day holiday on tap today, but the Legislature doesn’t take holidays, so there’s also a full day of legislative activities on the schedule. Among the most high-profile: 8th grader Ilah Hickman…
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