It’s getting hotter and hotter here, and fortunately for me, I’m headed off on vacation for the next week. I’ll be here and there, including some places that will be notably cooler than the 100-plus temps now predicted for Boise, though also some that may...
A review of teacher pay in Idaho reveals wide gaps between the highs and lows, writes Kevin Richert of Idaho Education News. Richert examines the reasons for the wide variance, and reports that the new five-year career ladder teacher pay plan may only accentuate it.…
Mosquitoes infected with West Nile virus have been found in Gem County, the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare reports; public health officials are reminding people to take precautions against mosquito bites. “Disease-carrying mosquitoes will be around now until a killing frost, so it is…
All four members of Idaho’s all-GOP congressional delegation have now issued statements on the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in King v. Burwell, which upheld the tax credit subsidies for consumers who buy their health insurance on the federal insurance exchange...
Customers of Idaho’s state health insurance exchange, YourHealthIdaho.org, weren’t among those worrying about what the U.S. Supreme Court would decide today in King v. Burwell, according to a statement from the Idaho exchange’s executive director, “because of the wise decision our lawmakers made three years...
When the former Ada County Courthouse – and former state Capitol Annex – opens as the new Idaho Law and Justice Learning Center later this summer, two controversial 1930s murals depicting the lynching of a shirtless Native American man by white settlers will be covered by banners...
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