Solons Wary Of IEN Song & Dance

Leery lawmakers grilled Otter Administration officials Thursday on how they plan to resolve the legal and financial mess surrounding the Idaho Education Network, the statewide broadband network linking Idaho high schools, and didn’t like the answers they got. Former Senate Education Chairman John Goedde, now an aide to Otter working on the IEN problem, said, “We have not paid our vendors since September. We have a moral obligation to pay them. We have to find a way.” Rep. John Gannon, D-Boise, countered, “I was concerned about your statement that there’s a moral obligation to pay, because this is the public’s money, and we have to deal with legal obligations.” A judge in November declared the state’s $60 million contract with Education Networks of America and Century Link for the IEN illegal and void/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here .

Question: So Goedde and Otter want us to keep pouring money down a rat hole?