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Longtime Idaho Senate secretary retires
Longtime Idaho Senate secretary retires
If redistricting fails, job could go to high court
BOISE – Idaho’s citizen redistricting commission appeared to move toward compromise last week, but after weeks of partisan impasse, it’s worth asking: What happens if the commission fails to agree by its September deadline? “My personal opinion is the Supreme Court would recognize the constitutional duty of the commission to do reapportionment, and I personally believe would kick it back to them, and tell them to reconvene again,” Idaho Secretary of State Ben Ysursa said. Ten years ago, when the commission reached a plan that was challenged in court, the Supreme Court reconvened the commission to redraw it.
Redistricters cite progress, wrap up for now
Redistricters cite progress, wrap up for now
Tale for redistricters: ‘We may all place different values on different things’
Tale for redistricters: ‘We may all place different values on different things’
Redistricters seek ‘common ground’
Redistricters seek ‘common ground’
Good news for redistricters: They have two extra days on the clock
Good news for redistricters: They have two extra days on the clock
Dems submit new redistricting plan
Dems submit new redistricting plan
Redistricters split 3-3, adjourn for day
Redistricters split 3-3, adjourn for day
Geddes: Law was intended to make redistricters’ job easier, not harder…
Geddes: Law was intended to make redistricters’ job easier, not harder…
Redistricters: ‘This state has changed’
Redistricters: ‘This state has changed’
Redistricters: ‘We’re down to about seven business days to solve this’
Redistricters: ‘We’re down to about seven business days to solve this’
Redistricting commissioners spar
Redistricting commissioners spar
Dems: Weigh constitutional factors over statutory ones on redistricting
Dems: Weigh constitutional factors over statutory ones on redistricting
Online education rules get hearings
BOISE – Idaho’s Board of Education has set seven public hearings across the state on a proposal to require high school students to take two online courses to graduate. One of the two must be an “asynchronous” course, defined as one in which both students and teachers participate in the course on their own schedules.
Stoking Idaho’s conservative fire: A look at Idaho’s legislative District 3
Stoking Idaho’s conservative fire: A look at Idaho’s legislative District 3
Stoking Idaho’s conservative fire
Conservatism is practically a religion in Idaho’s legislative District 3, the district that elected tax-protesting state Rep. Phil Hart four times and this year added two like-minded lawmakers he recruited to run. “I was considered a radical to my friends in California, and then I got up here and found out I was a moderate,” said Vito Barbieri, a first-term state representative and, like many District 3 residents, a California transplant who moved north.
Squabbling redistricters holding first Saturday meeting
Squabbling redistricters holding first Saturday meeting
Popkey: Speculation about a redistricting/school reform conspiracy…
Popkey: Speculation about a redistricting/school reform conspiracy…
Redistricting: GOP plan makes waves…
Redistricting: GOP plan makes waves…
New GOP redistricting plan spells possible trouble for a third of incumbents
New GOP redistricting plan spells possible trouble for a third of incumbents