Today marks my 20th anniversary with The Spokesman-Review. Though things have changed quite a bit since I joined the newspaper as its Idaho editor in 1991, we’re still in the same business - reporting the news. We just do it in a lot of new…
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter, on behalf of the State of Idaho, has submitted comments to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service with the state's "strong opposition" to the proposed new management plan for the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge, which would restrict some longtime recreational…
ITD has issued two more permits for modified megaloads to travel from Lewiston up through Moscow to Coeur d'Alene, then take I-90 to Montana and Canada. The two permits, issued Thursday, allow for travel beginning Saturday night for one load, and Sunday night for the…
The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality has lifted its E. coli contamination warning for Sandy Point Beach recreation area at Lucky Peak, saying bacteria levels have dropped and it's now safe to go in the water. The no-swimming warning has been in place since July…
Idaho's Fish & Game Commission, meeting today in Salmon, has set the state's wolf hunting season for 2011-12. As planned, the season will lack limits in several zones, to encourage more taking of wolves. Commissioners today made a few tweaks to the original proposal from…
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A Meridian developer says he has signed a contract to buy a prime chunk of real estate in downtown Boise that has been vacant for years. Officials from The Gardner Co. say they…
After reconvening this afternoon, Idaho's redistricting commission approved minutes from earlier meetings and set meeting dates for August and September, including next Monday, Tuesday starting in the afternoon, and next Wednesday, with possible meetings also on Friday or Saturday. The panel won't meet the following…
Idaho's bipartisan citizen redistricting commission is back at work this morning, but GOP Commissioner Lou Esposito said he's not going to be able to present his new legislative district plan today. "We've made some considerable progress. I think we are well on target to be…
Idaho Olympic skier Jeret "Speedy" Peterson reportedly is dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Utah. Peterson, who won the silver medal in aerials at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, had just pleaded not guilty to a DUI offense in the Sun Valley area…
Even as Idaho's Fish & Game Commission prepares to set this year's wolf-hunting season at its meeting this Thursday in Salmon, the wolf issue is back in court in Montana. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy held a two-hour hearing in Missoula today, the AP reports,…
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A U.S. aerial freestyle skier from Idaho has pleaded not guilty to speeding and drunken driving charges after his arrest Friday. Through his attorney, Jeret "Speedy" Peterson filed paperwork indicating he'll challenge his…
Idaho redistricting commissioners had praise today for all those from the public who submitted proposed redistricting plans, from ordinary citizens, to current and former lawmakers, to the city of Meridian and more. Commisioner Evan Frasure noted that former state Rep. Branden Durst of Boise submitted…
The redistricting commission had gone through more than half of the citizen-submitted legislative district maps so far this morning; it's taking a five-minute break now. Among those that drew comments: Remarking on plan L-3, Commissioner George Moses said, "I guess this is testament to how…
Idaho's bipartisan citizen redistricting commission is now reviewing all of the citizen-initiated redistricting plans submitted to the commission through the online "Maptitude" program; there are 29 of them. The first one, L-1, drew up a plan for just 30, rather than the current 35, legislative…
Idaho hearing officer and retired district Judge Duff McKee today rejected a motion for reconsideration from opponents of megaloads of oil equipment on U.S. Highway 12, but the opponents say they'll now file another objection. Borg Hendrickson, a Highway 12 resident and one of the…
Here's the map that Democratic redistricting Commissioner George Moses displayed to the bipartisan citizen redistricting commission today showing 24 counties in Idaho that have borders with adjoining counties that aren't crossed by a state or federal highway. He and the other Democratic commissioners contend that…
Steven Vames, vice president for corporate communications for Credit Suisse bank, has issued this statement on the latest legal filings in federal court in Idaho, in which Alfredo Miguel, founder and former board chairman of the failed Tamarack Resort in Idaho, and Tim Blixseth, founder…
GOP redistricting commissioners are critical of L-28, the legislative redistricting plan proposed by Democratic redistricting commissioners last week, and GOP Commissioner Lou Esposito said, "I think the best way we can actually deal with the analysis on this map is to produce our own. So…
Returning from their break, redistricting commissioners actually got locked in a 3-3 partisan split over which rules manual they should be following, Mason's Manual or Robert's Rules of Order. GOP Co-Chairman Evan Frasure ruled it should be Mason's; the Democrats objected, but their objection failed…
Democratic Redistricting Commissioner George Moses says he's glad that the next thing up for the commission's consideration this afternoon will be a GOP analysis of the Democratic legislative redistricting plan he proposed last week. "We're ready," he said. "We want to hear what they have…
Idaho's bipartisan citizen redistricting commission convened this morning, and began discussing meeting dates stretching all the way through August and possibly into September, signaling that its ambitious goal of arriving at new legislative and congressional districts by July 27 has been abandoned. "With the glacial…
The legislative redistricting plan proposed by Democratic Commissioner George Moses, introduced last week, focuses in many areas on keeping counties, cities and school districts intact within newly designed legislative districts. The impact on currently serving lawmakers? Only eight of the 35 districts would force face-offs…
Alfredo Miguel, founder and former board chairman of the failed Tamarack Resort, and Tim Blixseth, founder and former manager and developer of the Yellowstone Club in Montana, have filed to intervene in a pending lawsuit against Credit Suisse, charging the Swiss bank with racketeering, fraud,…
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Department of Labor says the statewide unemployment held steady at 9.4 percent in June. The agency released the latest jobless numbers on Friday, saying the Idaho labor pool shrunk for the…
It turns out that Idaho's not alone in vowing to ignore the latest requirements under the No Child Left Behind Act in an act of defiance against the federal government that demonstrates their growing frustration over an education program they say sets unrealistic benchmarks for…
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