The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes have issued a statement denouncing HB 127, Rep. Tom Loertscher’s bill targeting tribal gaming in Idaho. The measure was introduced last week and is awaiting a hearing in the House State Affairs Committee, which Loertscher chairs. Here is the Sho-Bans’ statement: “This…
Former Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, a senior adviser to the Convention of the States Project, is speaking in the Lincoln Auditorium this afternoon in favor of states petitioning for an Article V convention to amend the U.S. Constitution for the purpose of “limiting the power…
Nearly 30 Idaho clergy and faith representatives filled Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter's office on Wednesday urging the Republican to welcome all refugees and not just give preference to persecuted Christians. Otter recently said that Christian refugees should be treated as a priority in the U.S. refugee program...
The Idaho Secretary of State believes a federal agency may have tried to hack the state's election website around the date of the presidential election without notifying Idaho officials in advance. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's IP address showed up as trying to access the state elections site around Nov. 8...
On her second try, Sen. Mary Souza, R-Coeur d’Alene, persuaded the Senate State Affairs Committee this morning to introduce legislation to shift school board elections from May of odd years to the November general election of even years, and also to make other changes to...
At the budget hearing this morning on Idaho’s Wolf Depredation Control Board, to which lawmakers have been allocating $400,000 a year in state funds for the past three years to contract to have problem wolves killed, the board reported that its cost per wolf killed…
As the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee wrapped up agency budget hearings this morning, Gov. Butch Otter’s budget director, Jani Revier, presented a report on changes to the governor’s budget recommendation that have occurred since his budget first was presented to lawmakers at the start of the…
Sen. Marv Hagedorn, R-Meridian, unsuccessfully proposed legislation in the Senate State Affairs Committee this morning to repeal a 1990 law that allows longtime state legislators who, late in their careers, are appointed to high-paying full-time state positions to count their years of legislative service as…
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