Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Power officials say nearly 16,000 customers are without power in central Idaho due to multiple downed power lines. The utility company says severe weather conditions caused the power outages in Valley County...
The board of the Central District Health Department, the public health district that serves the Boise area, has voted to endorse the “College, Not Cancer Act,” the ballot initiative that’s currently circulating to raise Idaho’s cigarette tax and lower state college and university tuition. Steven...
Nampa attorney Davis VanderVelde was appointed a 3rd District judge today by Gov. Butch Otter; he fills the vacancy that was created when Judge Molly Huskey was appointed to the Idaho Court of Appeals. VanderVelde is a University of Nevada-Las Vegas graduate who holds a…
Beyond schools, lawmakers on the Legislature’s broadband access study committee are calling for the state Department of Commerce to take the lead on accelerating broadband access in Idaho. House Minority Leader John Rusche, D-Lewiston, said, “Commerce seems to me to be the right place. It’s…
The Legislature’s broadband access committee is back in session this afternoon, and has taken another unanimous vote, this time to change the word “commission” to “committee.” Members balked at a proposal to call the new group that would oversee school broadband aid an “advisory committee,”…
Lawmakers have continued discussing who should be on the new commission they’re recommending to oversee state school broadband aid, with proposals for seven members, nine members, and various other approaches. There’s also been discussion of calling the group a “committee” or “advisory committee” or something…
Rep. John Rusche, D-Lewiston, moved to locate the new commission to oversee school broadband aid at the state Department of Education, and Rep. Greg Chaney, R-Caldwell, seconded the motion; it passed unanimously. Rusche noted that that’s where the matter is handled now. “The issue isn’t…
The Legislature’s broadband committee went back and forth this morning on how the state’s school broadband program should be governed in the future, with members eventually saying they liked the idea of a commission, as outlined in last year’s HB 315, to oversee it. There’s...
Just had to share this picture I took yesterday morning at the top of Bogus Basin, Boise’s non-profit ski area, which now has more snow than it’s had in several years. Bogus reports that its base is up to 48 inches and it’s received 4…
The Legislature’s Broadband Access Study Committee has convened at the Capitol this morning, and started with a review of the array of motions that passed at the group’s last meeting, led by a unanimous vote to “move away from anything that mirrored the previous statewide...
Bonneville County’s Republican Central Committee has voted to “denounce” Idaho Gov. Butch Otter for forming a PAC to raise funds and donate to Idaho campaigns, the Idaho Falls Post Register reports. The effort is being led by county GOP Chairman Doyle Beck, who just last...
When a new executive with experience in the East arrived at Schweitzer Mountain Resort almost a decade ago and started talking about making snow, people thought he was nuts. This is the Inland Northwest, they said – the snow falls from the sky. There’s no…
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