GOP leadership-backed legislation on school construction funding passed the House today on a largely party-line 52-14 vote. The bill, HB 743, puts about $5 million in new state money into school building maintenance next year, while requiring local school districts to contribute $44 million. It…
Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden was back in Washington, D.C. today, where, as co-chair of the national Association of Attorneys General Tobacco Committee, he made this announcement at a news conference: U.S. cigarette sales in 2005 dropped 4.2 percent from 2004, the largest one-year percentage…
