Gov. Butch Otter has vetoed SB 1146a, the bill that would have allowed parents of Idaho children with an intractable form of epilepsy to treat their kids with cannabidiol, a non-psychotropic oil that's an extract of cannabis and can halt the children's repeated, extended and…
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Federal officials have reported a radiation accident six months after it happened at the Idaho National Laboratory in eastern Idaho. The Post Register reports (http://bit.ly/1D7FopH) that the U.S. Department of Energy reported…
Gov. Butch Otter has issued his first line-item veto of the year, on SB 1192, the Department of Labor appropriation bill. Otter sliced out a $3 million transfer from excess dedicated funds at the Industrial Commission to “industry sector grants” under the workforce development program,…
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter this morning declared Idaho’s legislative session “incomplete,” and indicated he’s laying the groundwork to call lawmakers back for a special session before mid-June to address a crisis they created in Idaho’s child-support enforcement system; you can read my full story here...
The letters that are being prepared to go out to 155,000 Idaho households currently receiving child support payments will warn that “they could stop getting their payments,” Idaho Health & Welfare spokesman Tom Shanahan said, when asked about the letters at the conclusion of the...
Asked if he’ll call a special session to fix Idaho’s child support enforcement crisis, Gov. Butch Otter called on Health & Welfare Director Dick Armstrong to give some background. First, though, Otter said, “I think it's important that we understand the consequences of doing nothing.”...
Gov. Butch Otter said when assigning a grade to this year’s legislative session, he has to return to school days in giving grades by course. “Breaking it down, I would say education got an absolute A, excellent,” he said. “There’s a lot of incompletes. I…
Gov. Butch Otter has distributed a statement, moments before his press conference starts this morning, saying, “While some unanticipated challenges left it with a grade of ‘Incomplete,’ … the 2015 session of the Idaho Legislature should be remembered for achieving historic improvements for Idaho schools…
All eyes are on Gov. Butch Otter today, who holds his post-legislative session press conference at 10 a.m. Mountain time. Otter is expected to announce whether or not he’ll call lawmakers back to Boise for a special session; there’s background info here from my story...
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