North Idaho state Rep. Heather Scott, in a Facebook post on Sunday, defended white nationalists in the wake of the events in Charlotte, Va. a day earlier, posting that a white nationalist is “no more than a Caucasian who (sic) for the Constitution and making America great again.” Here is Scott’s full...
Gov. Butch Otter recalled Idaho’s experience with neo-Nazi white supremacists, when the Aryan Nations was headquartered in North Idaho–and called on Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador, who had remained mum for 3 days, to join the other three members of Idaho’s congressional delegation in denouncing white supremacist violence. Tuesday evening, Labrador did...
Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador issued a statement shortly after 5 p.m. today on the racist violence in Charlottesville, three days after a 32-year-old woman was killed and hours after Gov. Butch Otter urged him to join the rest of Idaho’s congressional delegation in condemning white…
State officials on Tuesday moved forward with a plan to get rid of politically contentious commercial real estate and use the money to buy timberland and agricultural land that the state uses to generate revenue to fund schools. The Idaho Land Board voted 4-0 to advance a possible auction of 10 properties in December as it seeks to generate money
Dan Chadwick, executive director and general counsel for the Idaho Association of Counties for the past 27 years, will retire on Feb. 2, the association announced today. “Throughout all of these years, I have thoroughly enjoyed the opportunities and challenges afforded my by IAC,” Chadwick…
Asked about the racist violence in Charlottesville over the weekend, Gov. Butch Otter today recalled Idaho’s own experience with neo-Nazi white supremacists, when the Aryan Nations was headquartered in North Idaho. “We’ve not new to that – we’ve had those problems in Idaho before,” Otter...
Idaho’s state Land Board has voted unanimously in favor of a recommendation from its Endowment Fund Investment Board to boost payouts from the state endowment to public schools next year by 7 percent, and to all beneficiaries by 6.4 percent, while also transferring another $129.5...
Gov. Butch Otter is back and presiding over the state Land Board meeting this morning. He’s gotten lots of welcome-backs and questions about how he’s doing. His response to one of the well-wishers: “Good – slow, but mobile.” Otter was working from home for two…
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