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BOISE – There was the freshman representative from Coeur d’Alene who led an insurrection among House GOP freshmen that changed the outcome of the session’s biggest issue: Gov. Butch Otter’s push to create a state-based health insurance exchange. There was the doctor and second-term senator from Moscow whose quiet work across party lines softened the yearslong strife over Idaho’s health and human services funding, resulting in budgets with bipartisan support.
BOISE – It’s more than a year before the primary election, but Idaho Sen. Jim Risch announced last week that he’ll seek re-election in 2014. “When I ran for this office just over four years ago, I said our country was facing many challenges,” Risch said in a statement. “Those challenges not only remain, they have gotten worse. ... Idahoans are opposed to the ever-growing role of the federal government in their lives, and my votes in the Senate have reflected that sentiment.” Risch, who turns 70 in May, knows the importance of getting into a race early. When he was considering a run for governor in 2006, then-congressman Butch Otter jumped in just after he’d taken the oath of office for his third two-year congressional term, a move that allowed him to tie up GOP contributors and outmaneuver Risch, who decided not to run.
BOISE – After the 2013 session ended, Gov. Butch Otter joked that he grew confident his proposal for a state-based health insurance exchange would succeed only “when that bill hit ...
SANDPOINT, Idaho — A former dispatcher and a current dispatcher at the Bonner County 911 Center in North Idaho have filed legal notices announcing their intention to file lawsuits against ...
BOISE – Idaho lawmakers adjourned their legislative session Thursday after 88 days, running nearly a week longer than planned amid a deadlock in the Senate over the budget for public schools. In the end, the budget that passed both houses Thursday morning was identical to the original, giving schools a 2.2 percent boost in state funding next year to $1.3 billion. But rancor remained over the direction of education policy in Idaho: In November, voters repealed the Students Come First school reform laws that lawmakers had enacted in 2011.
Idaho lawmakers adjourned their legislative session today after 88 days, running nearly a week longer than planned amid a deadlock in the Senate over the budget for public schools.
Rain showers arriving over the Inland Northwest today have put an end to the weeklong string of mild spring weather, forecasters said.
Law enforcement officers in Spokane and Kootenai counties announced plans to crack down on property crimes following a series of confrontations involving homeowners firing gunshots at suspected criminals. Top lawmen said Wednesday they will pool manpower and information into a regionwide task force to target the most troubled neighborhoods, then follow perpetrators back to their hideouts.
BOISE – A new $1.3 billion Idaho public schools budget built by legislators this week is poised to pass a final vote today. The compromise version has been embraced by both the state Senate and House, passing each chamber on Wednesday and setting up final approval that features a few small changes.
Idaho lawmakers wrote a new public schools budget Wednesday, one that’s virtually identical to the $1.03 billion spending plan that was rejected by one vote in the Senate last week.
Kootenai County public defender John Adams won’t be fired after all, commissioners decided Tuesday.
BOISE – It soon will be tougher to get an initiative onto the Idaho ballot. Barely five months after Idaho voters took to the ballot box to scrap the Legislature’s controversial Students Come First school reform laws, Gov. Butch Otter signed legislation Monday adding new requirements for qualifying citizen initiatives and referendum measures for a statewide ballot.
Gov. Butch Otter has signed SB 1108 into law, the measure making it tougher to qualify an initiative or referendum measure for the Idaho ballot.
BOISE – Idaho Gov. Butch Otter has signed legislation allowing extra-heavy trucks on nonfreeway routes statewide but says he wants the Idaho Transportation Department to hold public hearings and take other steps before designating any new routes. “Safety must be the highest priority,” Otter wrote in a letter sent to lawmakers Monday. “The process of considering nominated routes also must include timely, well-noticed public hearings and notification of adjacent property owners.”
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter has signed legislation allowing extra-heavy trucks statewide, but says he wants the Idaho Transportation Department to hold public hearings and take other steps before designating any new routes for 129,000 pound trucks.
Bright sunshine pushed thermometers in the Spokane region to 70 degrees for the first time since last October.
A North Idaho judge has rejected a request by a group of homeowners trying to prevent a company from building a 14-story condominium in downtown Coeur d’Alene. The Coeur d’Alene Press reported that 1st District Judge Benjamin Simpson ruled Tuesday that the Coeur d’Alene North Home Owners View Preservation LLC wasn’t personally injured by the proposed building and therefore didn’t have legal standing to file a lawsuit against the builder.
City Attorney Mike Gridley may think Steve Adams is a moron (for threatening legal action that could sidetrack a federally mandated expansion of the sewer plant). And Mayor Sandi Bloem may want to punch Adams in the nose (for poking his finger in her face). But the Coeur d’Alene councilman has support in the very, very conservative Kootenai County GOP Central Committee. In fact, Adams was invited, along with Chris Fillios and Brent Regan, to count ballots for a vote to fill a vacant precinct committeeman position Tuesday.
BOISE – The state Legislature makes the laws, including the ones that say cities can govern local planning and zoning issues. “So if we give them the authority, we also have the authority to not necessarily override it, but to exempt ourselves from that,” Sen. Chuck Winder, R-Boise, told the Idaho Senate on Friday.
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