Idaho Gov. Butch Otter signed 45 bills into law today, including measures encouraging gun safety classes in Idaho schools; overhauling the state’s foster care laws; expanding suicide prevention education; restricting the use of public funds to campaign for candidates or ballot measures; and requiring ignition…
Gov. Butch Otter has issued his first veto of the session, slapping his big, red VETO stamp on HB 501, legislation from House Education Chair Julie VanOrden, R-Pingree, to remove the Idaho Reading Indicator from the list of assessment tools that school districts may use...
The estimated number of Idahoans who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but too little to qualify for subsidized health insurance through Idaho’s insurance exchange has dropped at least 20 percent over the past four years and possibly as much as 35 percent, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare said Monday. There are currently between...
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jim Patrick, R-Twin Falls, and House Minority Leader Mat Erpelding, D-Boise, have authored a joint op-ed piece urging politicians in Washington, D.C. not to terminate or make substantial changes to NAFTA, saying the North American Free Trade Agreement has been “a…
Idaho is not the most obvious place to attract members of the Russian punk collective Pussy Riot. But even in the Republican stronghold that strongly supports President Donald Trump, Pussy Riot members carved out time late Saturday to swing by Boise during their first North American tour, the AP reports. "There is power in doing...
Today’s Senate session lasted all of 10 minutes, and that was it. The list of bills that Gov. Butch Otter has signed most recently was read across the desk, along with one he allowed to become law without his signature. A substitute lawmaker, Joni Burtenshaw,…
The session, it still hasn’t ended The fences, they haven’t been mended The end’s still in doubt As they wait it all out All progress now is suspended.
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