Even as top Senate Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, called for GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama to step aside increasing turmoil over sex allegations, Idaho’s two GOP senators maintained their qualified stance that Moore should step down “if these allegations are…
GOP gubernatorial Tommy Ahlquist’s campaign has put up a new website criticizing rivals Brad Little and Raul Labrador, criticizing both as “professional politicians” who “do the darndest things with your tax dollars.” The site is online at sadchoiceidaho.com. It’s set up as a “quiz,” asking…
State schools Superintendent Sherri Ybarra and Wilder School District Superintendent Jeff Dillon, who is running against Ybarra in 2018, appeared together at the Idaho School Boards Association’s annual convention in Coeur d’Alene last week, and Idaho EdNews reports that the two faced off in a...
Former state Sen. Dan Schmidt, D-Moscow, a physician and outspoken advocate of improving health care in Idaho, says after much consideration, he’s decided against running for governor next year – at least for now. “I have no plans to at this time,” Schmidt told Eye on Boise. “Honestly, I did look at it pretty hard. But you’ve got to...
Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney told Kris Kobach, vice chairman of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, earlier this year that he wouldn’t turn over non-public information from Idaho’s voter rolls, including voters’ dates of birth and the last four digits of social…
Forensic scientists with the Idaho State Police are struggling to keep up with the growing caseload of evidence waiting to be tested for heroin and other opioids. ISP scientist Corinna Owsley tells the Idaho Press-Tribune that each drug analyst with the agency does about 90 cases a month...
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