More than 100 people gathered at the Sandpoint Community Hall this morning to hear anti-Islam speaker Shahram Hadian speak, reports Melissa Davlin of Idaho Public Television; Hadian, a Christian pastor from Chattaroy, Wash. and former Muslim, downplayed his role in helping kill child support enforcement...
Idaho Public TV reporter Melissa Davlin writes today that when IPTV’s “Idaho Reports” requested a comment from 1st District Rep. Raul Labrador last week on his involvement with Idaho’s failed child support enforcement legislation, his staff denied Labrador had any involvement outside of calling Rep.…
Idaho has gone from 34 craft beer breweries in 2013 to 51 now, with six more scheduled to open this year, according to the Idaho Department of Agriculture. So the Ag Department and Idaho Brewers United have teamed up to publish a new brochure highlighting…
Gov. Butch Otter has signed HB 324 into law, sharply increasing fines for violations of the Idaho Open Meeting Law. Fines for regular violations would rise from $50 to $250; fines for knowing violations would rise from $500 to $1,500; and fines for knowing, repeated…
Gov. Butch Otter has signed HB 312a, the $95 million last-minute compromise transportation funding bill, into law. In a transmittal letter to House Speaker Scott Bedke, Otter wrote, “Something indeed is better than nothing.” He added, “In fact, H 312 is a respectable start on…
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. Republican Congressman Raul Labrador involved himself in the fallout of failed Idaho legislation that would have brought the state into compliance with federal child support rules and an international treaty. Labrador says...
Shahram Hadian, the Christian pastor and anti-Islam speaker who’s speaking in Sandpoint this morning, has released a three-page document headed “Concerns Regarding Idaho State Legislature Senate Bill 1067,” the child support enforcement bill that was killed by one vote in a House committee on the…
Idaho’s in the national news again, with this lead on a story in the New York Times today: “It took five years for negotiators to work out the details of a multinational treaty on child support that would make it easier to track delinquent parents…
The Idaho Department of Health & Welfare is preparing to send out 155,000 letters to 155,000 Idaho families warning that they may lose their child support payments, due to lawmakers’ defeat of a bill on the final day of this year’s legislative session – but…
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