The Otter Administration is proposing a state-funded partial alternative to Medicaid expansion that could deliver basic primary care for 78,000 Idahoans who now have little or no access to health care coverage, Idaho Statesman reporter Bill Dentzer reported over the weekend, at a cost to…
Law enforcement leaders across Idaho are considering whether to seek new laws detailing how they collect and retain video footage and who gets access to the images. The use of body cameras, dash...
Idaho’s general fund tax revenues came in higher than expected in all categories in November, running 3.7 percent ahead of forecasts and 4.4 percent higher than the same month a year earlier. That puts year-to-date state tax collections 0.5 percent ahead of projections, and 5…
You can read my full story here at spokesman.com on how Idaho Gov. Butch Otter’s chief lawyer was making $100,755 a year when he left the state last April, but the state’s paid him nearly half again as much just in the past two months.…
Acting Idaho Gov. Brad Little this morning declared an emergency for Benewah, Bonner, Boundary and Kootenai counties in the wake of the disastrous Nov. 17 windstorm, paving the way for federal and state funds to help cover part of the cost of restoring damaged utilities....
I’m awaiting comment from Gov. Butch Otter’s office on why the state is now paying more to Tom Perry, the governor’s former chief legal counsel, to represent it in the sage grouse lawsuit than it paid to Perry when he was a $100,000 a year...
A new report from the AP on the Idaho Legislature’s legal defense fund details the $275,000 lawmakers have spent on outside counsel in the last three years rather than using Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden’s office, and contains this revelation: Gov. Otter’s former chief counsel,...
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