Here's a news item from AP: BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The Federal Election Commission concluded its own staff failed to adequately assist then-U.S. Rep. Bill Sali file a 2008 campaign finance report. In a May 1 memo, FEC staff members wrote the "repeated failure on…
Crime is down in Idaho, continuing a multiyear trend, and it’s down even more in North Idaho. Both the number of serious crimes committed and the area’s crime rate in 2008 fell significantly from the previous year, according to the state’s latest statistics; that trend…
State Superintendent of Schools Tom Luna says he's always been an advocate of lowering the supermajority to pass school bonds, while also reducing the number of possible dates when bond elections can be held. The successful legislation this year to consolidate elections, which will reduce…
Rep. Jim Clark, R-Hayden Lake, is one of nine lawmakers named "Legislator of the Year" this year by the American Legislative Exchange Council, a national conservative group of legislators and business people that promotes "limited government, free markets and federalism." Clark, a seven-term lawmaker and…
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