I will be off until the first of the year, the first time in years I’ve taken a whole two weeks off at once. I’ll still have some posts during this time, including links to several stories I’ve done that will come out in the paper over the next week, including one on Sunday...
Gov. Butch Otter, at a ribbon-cutting in Twin Falls today, confirmed that he’s being vetted as a possible nominee for Secretary of Agriculture, and told Times-News reporter Nathan Brown that he'd listed his favored positions in a Trump Administration as Interior, Ag, and heading the International Trade Administration. "We're at Door No. 2...
Two of Idaho’s four Republican presidential electors will be replaced prior to Monday’s vote of the Electoral College because they are constitutionally barred as federal employees from serving as electors, the Idaho Statesman reports. The substitutions aren’t expected to change the outcome, with all four…
Major flaws in a review that the state Department of Education commissioned of Idaho's teacher evaluation system drew attention from the state Board of Education today, as school district superintendents around the state remained concerned that the audit report unfairly cast doubt on the evaluation…
The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and U.S. Bureau of Land Management are both claiming ownership of about 100 acres near the eastern Idaho city of Pocatello. The Idaho State Journal reports that both entities say Union Pacific Railroad relinquished a right of way to them. The tribes cited an 1888 agreement with the railroad and Congress...
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