Lewiston Tribune political reporter Bill Spence’s recent 13-week reporting trip to Washington, D.C., yielded a boatload of interesting insights for his Idaho readers. Now, Spence is back in Idaho, and he’s sharing his experience with other Idaho reporters. Among his comments: “After watching the ‘pros’…
Idaho’s state Board of Education voted today to crack down on bad teacher evaluation data, reports Idaho EdNews, calling for imposing fines against school superintendents who deliberately send false data to the state. The board gave the idea its preliminary approval Monday morning, during a...
A joint investigation by The Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity has found that opioid proponents are a major part of Idaho's political landscape, with donations from members of the Pain Control Forum – a group that touts prescription painkillers as improving the...
Idaho GOP U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo’s Democratic challenger, Jerry Sturgill, is criticizing Crapo over his 2013 DUI conviction, saying it shows that Washington has changed him. Both men are observant members of the Mormon church, which forbids consuming alcohol. And Crapo long had been known as a teetotaler, which made his drunken driving...
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