dds are if your education cost you more than $70,000, you'd learn something from it. Of course, it's your money and your time. The process is a bit different in Boise. There, state lawmakers are living off your money and your time. During a two-year period, members of the Legislature's public lands task force blew through more than $61,000 on private attorney fees, not to mention the cost of staff time and travel, relearning what Idaho Deputy Attorney General Steve Strack told them in the beginning: Utah state Rep. Ken Ivory's pipe dream about suing the federal government into relinquishing its lands to the state conflicted with 200 years of federal and state constitutional law and court rulings. If such an idea could have worked, it would have been done long ago. Yet, here comes state Rep. Terry Gestrin, R-Donnelly, throwing good money after bad. Gestrin, along with co-sponsors such as Sens. Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood, and Chuck Winder, R-Boise, want to spend an estimated $150,000 a year forging a compact with the state of Utah/Marty Trillhaase, Lewiston Tribune. More here.