The restructuring at Superintendent Sherri Ybarra’s State Department of Education continued this week with the termination of school improvement and support director Greg Alexander, Idaho Education News reports; Alexander had been with the department since January of 2012, and was hired under previous schools chief…
When Kelly Buckland and Bobbie Ball rolled their wheelchairs into a meeting with state public works officials, bringing a list of specific changes needed in Idaho’s state capitol restoration project to accommodate people with disabilities, they thought they’d gotten the state’s attention. “They seemed really...
After Idaho Rep. Luke Malek, R-Coeur d’Alene, penned a guest opinion published in The Spokesman-Review on May 17 that was critical of the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s lobbying efforts against the child support enforcement bill, IFF President Wayne Hoffman has stepped up a war of words…
In a move that illustrates the landscape’s slow but steady recovery from major wildfires, about 54,200 acres of public land north of Mountain Home has been reopened to non-motorized public use, the BLM says, after restrictions that followed the 2013 Pony and Elk fires. After…
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