Idaho lawmakers took turns grilling a newly appointed state tax commissioner over concerns surrounding her marriage to one of the Legislature's most vocal tax cut proponents, the AP reports. Gov. Butch Otter appointed former GOP Rep. Janet Moyle...
The Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy has released an analysis of HB 463, the governor’s tax-cut bill that’s headed to a vote in the full house, and it found that the bill would increase taxes on larger middle-class families while shifting the tax load away…
Idaho would join 27 other states to define and regulate electric bicycles under a newly introduced bill. Rep. Phylis King, a Democrat from Boise, said Tuesday her legislation would create three categories of e-bikes. If approved, cities and counties would have jurisdiction...
The intricacies of the state’s administrative rules process create this twist to tomorrow’s House Education Committee consideration of school science standards: It may not matter what the panel does. Last year, because the House committee insisted on deleting five sections regarding climate change from the…
Former Idaho House Minority Leader John Rusche, D-Lewiston, has endorsed A.J. Balukoff for governor. Rusche announced the endorsement last night during a Nez Perce County Democratic Party meeting in Lewiston. Balukoff faces state Rep. Paulette Jordan, D-Plummer, in the May 15 Democratic primary for governor.…
After nearly three hours of testimony both for and against – mostly against – the House State Affairs Committee wrapped up its hearing on HCR 32, which calls for an Article V convention of the states to amend the U.S. Constitution, for today; it’ll continue…
The House Health & Welfare Committee has voted 8-4 in favor of bipartisan legislation to restore non-emergency dental coverage to Medicaid patients who lost it in cutbacks imposed in 2011. “Not only will we alleviate a lot of human suffering by doing this, but I...
More of the testimony from today’s hearing on HCR 32, calling for an Article V convention of states to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution: Adrienne Evans said, “We risk a runaway convention,” and said, “Our Constitution works. The United States Constitution has guided our...
More from today’s hearing on HCR 32, calling for an Article V constitutional convention: McKay Cunningham, an attorney and a law professor at Concordia University, told lawmakers, “Idahoans are not clamoring for you to revise the Constitution.” Rep. Randy Armstrong, R-Inkom, asked him, “The question...
Among those testifying at this morning’s hearing on HCR 32, regarding calling for an Article V convention of the states to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution: Walt Donovan, a retired Marine Corps brigadier general and attorney, said, “Sixty-two years ago, along with others, I...
Rep. Tom Loertscher, R-Iona, told the House State Affairs Committee this morning, as he presented HCR 32, a call for an Article V constitutional convention, “I think it’s very important that we consider this at this time, because I think we all agree that we’re...
There’s a line of folks signing up to testify at this morning’s hearing in the Lincoln Auditorium on HCR 32, the measure from Rep. Tom Loertscher, R-Iona, calling for an Article V convention of the states for the purpose of proposing amendments to the U.S....
Idaho Sen. Dan Johnson, R-Lewiston, is working on an alternative to the governor's $202 million tax cut bill that could actually provide more net tax relief for Idaho families, the Lewiston Tribune reports. It would change the way the state conforms with the federal tax reforms and how income tax rates are handled...
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