Gov. Butch Otter has sent out guest opinion to Idaho media defending his proposal for use of federal stimulus money, saying he wants to "separate fact from fiction" and that he isn't "callously choosing roads over children and transportation over education." Click below to read…
There's a full house for the second day of hearings today on the proposed Fish & Game fee increase in the Senate Resources Committee. People are testifying both for and against the increase; the panel isn't expected to vote on the bill before next week.
Here's a link to my full story on the JFAC action today setting a budget target. It's still up in the air as to some of the implications, but the new target, plus spending more of the stimulus money, could enable lawmakers to set a…
Half an hour after the Senate was supposed to be on the floor, JFAC has just voted 19-1 to endorse a budget target for 2010 of $2,507,900,000 - a figure nearly $50 million below previous estimates. That will mean more cuts; a scenario laid out…
Legislative budget director Cathy Holland-Smith is briefing JFAC members on all the numbers, in preparation for the committee setting budget target numbers for both the current and the 2010 fiscal years. The background is complex as can be, and every theoretical change - whether or…
Here's a link to my full story in today's Spokesman-Review on the legislative reaction yesterday to Gov. Butch Otter's plan to boost roads but cut schools; and here's a link to my full story on the Senate's 30-5 passage yesterday of the day care licensing…
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