The "Students Come First" Technology Task Force will meet Monday and Tuesday at the state capitol; the agenda includes presentations on the Maine Learning Technology Initiative, the Denver Public Schools Instructional Management System, and one from several executives and the sales director for Discovery Education;…
Two of the five members of the Idaho Land Board - Gov. Butch Otter and state schools Supt. Tom Luna - now say they erred last year when they voted to spend $2.7 million to buy a storage business whose revenue benefits Idaho public schools…
Idaho Democratic Party Chairman Larry Grant has issued a news release slamming the recent decision by Ada County Prosecutor Greg Bower to forgo prosecuting former state Tax Commission Chairman Royce Chigbrow because statute of limitations had expired. “It is outrageous that Chigbrow won’t be called…
A national group that's filed petitions or lawsuits in all 50 states seeking dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions hit a brick wall in Idaho, according to reporter Sean Ellis, who reports in this week's Capital Press that the Idaho Board of Environmental Quality unanimously…
Idaho is one of 23 states that will share in a multimillion-dollar national settlement with JP Morgan Chase & Co. over bid-rigging deals on public bond offerings. The Associated Press reports that J.P. Morgan Securities LLC made at least 93 secret deals with companies that…
The "extreme couponing" movement is catching on in Idaho, reports Associated Press reporter Jessie Bonner, with a TLC program about the phenomenon highlighting shoppers who cut their grocery bills by hundreds through rigorous coupon-clipping, classes on how to do it drawing interested adherents, and two…
Idaho has had its first confirmed rabid bat, as a bat from southeastern Idaho tested positive for rabies last week, prompting a warning from the state Department of Health & Welfare for precautions, from making sure pets and horses are vaccinated against rabies, to avoiding…
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter has appointed CPA Rich Jackson to the Idaho State Tax Commission, filling the vacancy created by Otter's appointment in June of Commissioner Sam Haws to head the Idaho Commission on Aging (replacing Kim Toryanski, now deputy administrator of the Idaho Division…
House Minority Leader John Rusche, D-Lewiston, has penned an op-ed piece panning Idaho's approach to implementing both the new longitudinal data system for schools, ISEE (Idaho System for Educational Excellence), and the earlier troubled implementation of a new Medicaid claims system last summer; Rusche said…
More than 42,000 poor or disabled Idahoans lost their non-emergency dental coverage last Friday due to state budget cuts, and there's some question about whether the state's expected $1.7 million in annual savings really will pay off in the long run. "Some of this stuff,…
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