Here's a press release from Gov. Butch Otter on the preliminary April revenue report: STATE’S APRIL REVENUE WAS BELOW PROJECTION (BOISE) – The Idaho Division of Financial Management issued preliminary, incomplete April tax revenue data today that shows the State took in $55.5 million less…
The earliest preliminary reports on April's state tax collections - a key month, with the biggest collections of the year - show they're down by $55 million from projections, the AP reports, meaning the state would head into the final two months of its fiscal…
In a new TV commercial airing across the 1st Congressional District, GOP candidate Vaughn Ward says "the only way to stop reckless spending" by the federal government is to "end government bailouts and ban earmarks." The campaign ad, Ward's second of the campaign and the…
AP reporter John Miller takes a look at the role of opposition research in congressional campaigns and what the campaigns are digging up about their opponents in the 1st District congressional race; click below to read the full story. It was opposition research that enabled…
There's a lot on the ballot in this spring's primary election, though the marquee race clearly is the vigorous GOP contest between two rising young Republicans for a chance to challenge 1st District Democratic Rep. Walt Minnick in the 1st Congressional District. Every statewide elected…
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