Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Republican House Speaker Lawerence Denney may fire his appointee to Idaho's redistricting commission, former GOP state Rep. Dolores Crow, because party members don't think she protected their interests. That's after Idaho Supreme Court…
Next Friday, Gov. Butch Otter will bring a bevy of top state officials to tiny Murphy, Idaho - population 97 - for his 51st "Capitol For A Day" event. Click below for Otter's full announcement. “Murphy is one of America’s smallest county seats – but…
The Occupy Boise group has sent out a press release declaring HB 380, the bill to evict its encampment from state property across from the state Capitol, "an attack on the civil liberties of the Idaho people's constitutional right assembly." The group wrote, "Our vigil…
The House committee hearing on legislation to boot the Occupy Boise encampment off state property will be early tomorrow morning, House State Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Loertscher said today. "We felt that it's a good idea to get it through, get it out of here,"…
Idaho's citizen redistricting commission has set public meetings for two days next week: Thursday Jan. 26 at 9 a.m., and Friday Jan. 27 at 9 a.m. The group will convene in Room C110 of the state Capitol; it's been ordered back to work by the…
The Idaho Attorney General's office and the Idaho Sheriffs Association have gotten together to make available free, wallet-sized cards to Idahoans who have a long-term civil protection order, so they can quickly alert law enforcement officers to the order in case of violations. The cards…
The Idaho Supreme Court has issued its decision in the second challenge to the state's current legislative redistricting plan, L-87, repeating its reasoning from yesterday's decision, which ruled the plan unconstitutional for dividing too many counties. It therefore didn't take up arguments on other issues…
The House Education Committee, like the Senate Education Committee before it, has voted with just one dissenting vote to accept the new State Board of Education rule requiring two online courses to graduate from high school in Idaho, with the caveat that the state board…
For the past two years, the traditional Martin Luther King Jr./Idaho Human Rights Day human rights rally on the steps of the state Capitol has had to be moved, because the Idaho Freedom Foundation scooted in early and reserved the steps for a Tea Party…
The House State Affairs Committee has voted unanimously to introduce two bills dealing with this year's primary election: One from committee Chairman Tom Loertscher, R-Iona, to delay the state's primary from May to August while also doing away with the presidential primary; and one from…
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