The state Board of Education has sent out its schedule for meetings this week, and it includes “open government training” this Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., followed immediately by – you guessed it – a closed-door, executive session at 5 p.m.
Gov. Butch Otter has sent out a statement speaking out strongly in support of the annual “Governor’s Cup” golf tournament, a fundraiser for scholarships at which “there are opportunities for business people and government people to talk.” He wrote, “Yes, there is golf, trap shooting,…
The Idaho Senate was locked in debate much of the morning over a proposed amendment to the chain-up bill, SB 1379. The bill now would require tire chains in dangerous, snowy conditions only for interstate truckers on three specific North Idaho mountain passes – Lookout,…
In an eventful morning of budget-setting, the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee this morning nearly killed the funding for the Women’s Commission, stuck close to the governor’s recommendation on prison funding, left the conversion of a prison warehouse into treatment beds for a decision tomorrow, and trimmed…
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