Hearings on education budgets are scheduled in the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee this week, starting off with higher ed: ISU is up Monday from 8-9 a.m.; BSU from 9-10 and LCSC from 10:10 to 11 a.m. Then Tuesday morning will bring budget hearings for the state's…
A trio of tea party sympathizers is challenging three longtime GOP incumbents in North Idaho's legislative District 1, as Idaho gears up for its first-ever closed Republican primary this year. Pam Stout, president of the area's Tea Party Patriots group, is challenging Rep. George Eskridge,…
