When Rep. Dennis Lake, R-Blackfoot, suffered a stroke during a House debate last Thursday, he was debating against a bill sponsored by his seatmate, Rep. Jim Clark, R-Hayden Lake, to shore up Idaho’s judges’ retirement system by creating a stabilization fund. Today, with Lake back…
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation Monday designed to let Idaho judges waive mandatory minimum sentences for some drug offenders, if the crime stems from addiction that could be treated. “There are some people we don’t need to throw the book at,” said Rep.…
Two bills that already have passed the Senate unanimously have now also won near-unanimous support from the House Judiciary Committee. SB 1270 adds a fourth justice to Idaho’s three-member Court of Appeals in 2009, due to skyrocketing caseload. SB 1271 removes the requirement that the…
Idaho’s Capitol restoration special license plate is now the state’s third-largest selling specialty plate, Senate President Pro-Tem Bob Geddes, R-Soda Springs, told the Senate, and so the Capitol Commission would like to keep selling it. Otherwise, the law establishing that special plate would expire; HB…
John Foster, executive director of the Idaho Democratic Party, has decided to leave his post in mid-March after serving for just under a year. Foster, who said the job simply didn’t leave him enough time with his young family, said he’ll “leave on the high…
Tamarack Resort got a unanimous vote this morning from the Senate State Affairs Committee for SB 1382, legislation to allow the year-round ski and golf resort near Donnelly to get up to 12 non-transferable liquor licenses. It already was entitled to three under a law…
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