Outgoing Idaho state Rep. Phil Hart has filed a Chapter 13 bankruptcy plan in federal court that proposes that he pay $200 a month for five years - a total of $12,000 - to get his entire debt of more than $600,000 discharged. The vast…
The Idaho Division of Public Health has issued a fish advisory, warning that catfish caught in the lower Boise River have been found to have high levels of mercury, and pregnant women or children age 15 and younger should limit their consumption. Catfish often absorb…
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: NAMPA, Idaho (AP) ― A petition supported by Idaho grocers seeks to stagger the distribution of food stamp benefits. Grocers have complained to state lawmakers that they've been swamped by food-stamp recipients on the first day of…
Idaho Democratic lawmakers have issued a call for the governor and Republican legislators to return to planning for a state-run health insurance exchange, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the national health care reform law. "That will mean either an Executive Order or…
Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador reacted to Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court decision on health care reform by saying the nation's founding fathers would be "appalled." He wasn't the only one invoking the founding fathers in the wake of the controversial decision. But David Adler, constitutional scholar…
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