Idaho gubernatorial hopeful Raul Labrador, currently the 1st District GOP congressman, released his economic plan today, and on top of the $900 million in tax cuts he’s already been advocating, he’s adding another $120 million-plus. Labrador’s “5-5-5 plan” to cut personal and corporate income tax...
Gov. C. L. "Butch" Otter offered a rare glimpse into his agenda for the upcoming legislative session on Thursday by announcing plans to ask lawmakers to create a chief education officer who would help make key changes inside Idaho's postsecondary system."We have a lot of agencies clinging to the status quo and status quo isn't going to get us...
Bob Maynard, investment manager for the Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho, told lawmakers today that the outlook for stocks in the coming year is positive. Noting that he came to Idaho in 1992 and for a decade before that had a similar job in…
The Boise Police Department reports that the big star stolen from the top of the Christmas tree in the Grove plaza downtown has been recovered. Here’s the BPD’s announcement: “On January 1st around 3 in the morning a subject climbed the Downtown Boise Christmas Tree...
A federal appeals court panel says Idaho's ban on spying at farms, dairies and slaughterhouses violates free speech rights. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled that sections of the law illegally targeted free speech and investigative journalism. However, the panel also ruled the law correctly criminalized those who made false...
As the Legislature’s Economic Outlook and Revenue Assessment opened its annual meeting this afternoon, Co-Chair Rep. Rick Youngblood, R-Nampa, noted that the panel’s mission is to make an overall assessment of Idaho’s economy for the next 18 months and the impact it’s likely to have…
The Legislature’s joint Economic Outlook and Revenue Assessment Committee convenes today at the Capitol, starting at 1 p.m.; you can watch live here. The committee, a bipartisan panel of nine senators and nine representatives, will hear from an array of presenters on the state of…
Former Idaho gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammell has announced a new campaign for governor – of Wyoming. Rammell, who ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for Idaho governor in 2010 and as an independent against Sen. Jim Risch for the U.S. Senate in 2008, told the Jackson…
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