Here’s a link to my full story at spokesman.com on today’s nearly two dozen arrests of “Add the 4 Words” protesters at the state Capitol, as talk swirls around the statehouse about possible compromise legislation and whether there’s time to consider it this year or…
The Senate Education Committee has endorsed SB 1072, the bill from freshman Sen. Mary Souza, R-Coeur d’Alene, to require school board candidates to comply with the same campaign finance disclosure rules now in place for nonpartisan candidates for city council or community college trustee positions.…
A North Idaho senator is objecting to allowing a Hindu prayer as the opening invocation for the Idaho Senate on Tuesday morning, and says he’ll walk out. Sen. Steve Vick, R-Dalton Gardens, said, "They have a caste system. They worship cows." He acknowledged the First…
The House has voted 55-14, in a straight party-line vote, to pass HB 154, controversial anti-abortion legislation that adds new restrictions around abortions performed by medication, rather than by surgery. The bill now moves to the Senate side. All the “no” votes came from the...
Nearly two dozen people were arrested in an “Add the 4 Words” protest at the Idaho Capitol today, including 11 each in the House and Senate. In both chambers, the protesters, who arrived early in the morning, entered the chambers and lined up in front…
Eleven “Add the 4 Words” protesters, including disabled veteran Madelynn Lee Taylor, have been arrested this morning in the Idaho Senate chamber, and led away in plastic handcuffs. Eleven more protesters still in the House chambers also likely will face arrest; the House convenes at...
The budget for the Division of Welfare, another big piece of the state Department of Health & Welfare, has been set this morning on a 16-4 vote of the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee. Overall, the budget shows just a 0.9 percent increase in state general tax...
The big budget-setting has started in this year’s legislative session this morning, as the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee voted 18-2 in favor of a budget for Medicaid for next year that shows a 2.1 percent increase in state general funds, and 3.5 percent increase overall. That’s…
'Add the 4 Words' protesters are standing in the chamber of the Idaho House this morning and refusing to leave, and blocking the main entrance to the Senate chamber, calling for consideration of legislation to add the words "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" to the…
Proponents of cannabidiol oil, a non-psychotropic extract of marijuana, say it reduces the amount and length of seizures in children with a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet Syndrome. The parents of a 10-year-old Boise girl who suffers from the syndrome have been pushing for…
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