Here’s a link to my full story at spokesman.com on new research by two Boise State University professors that has identified major gender imbalance in the state’s appointed boards and commissions, showing not only that 70 percent of appointees are men, but that women are...
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho is eliminating one prison treatment program and will be revamping several others after an in-depth assessment showed that some were ineffective and many relied on outdated research. Idaho Department of Correction Director…
Patrick Hodges, deputy director of the Idaho Department of Lands, has been named administrator of the Idaho state Controller's division of statewide accounting; he’ll start his new post Sept. 28. State Controller Brandon Woolf announced the appointment; Hodges started his state government career in the…
When the Idaho Republican Party holds its presidential primary election on March 8, it’ll determine how the state’s 32 delegates to the Republican National Convention are apportioned, and it’s not as simple as just proportional or winner-take-all. That’s because national GOP rules require that if...
A new BSU study of state, county and city board appointments shows that only about a third of the appointees are women, while two-thirds are men. The study, which examined nearly 5,000 appointments in Idaho, was presented at last week’s Andrus Center for Public Policy…
Twenty-one Idaho libraries now have been equipped with 3D printers, thanks to funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and more than two dozen Idaho librarians gathered in Boise this week to learn how to operate, maintain and troubleshoot the high-tech devices. They’re…
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