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A measure to add sexual orientation to Idaho’s anti-discrimination law got an initial nod in the Senate, and will likely...
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Last Friday, the interim director of the State Board of Education broached the idea of turning some programs back to...
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The Idaho Department of Transportation introduced a measure this week that prohibits issuing drivers licenses or identification cards to people who are not in the United States lawfully and limits the expiration date on licenses granted to some immigrants.
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In his presentation to the Legislative budget committee Thursday, public schools chief Tom Luna made a new argument for including...
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Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna presents his budget this morning with no advance indication that he has scaled back a $60 million teacher pay plan to fall in line with Gov. Otter's notion. PaleoMedia will be there. Also, Forest Service is looking at Idaho's Roadless plan again, taxing internet sales and coming soon... a primer on using PaleoMedia.org more efficiently. [Hint, click on the headline or the "Continue reading..." button below for more...]
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On Wednesday, the House Agricultural Affairs committee took a look at a series of rules on domestic cervidae farms -- that is farms that raise elk, fallow deer and reindeer. Read them here.
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Days after I wrote about a plan to offer teachers in Idaho a bonus for giving up some of their contract rights I read a fascinating essay in The Atlantic about education reform in America. I wrote in the Boise Weekly that Idaho schools chief Tom Luna is the first education official to come up with this type of merit pay plan... but people in Washington, DC have thought about it too...
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Dennis Griffin, president of the now-forming College of Western Idaho told the state budget committee Wednesday that he feels like...
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Idaho's colleges and universities pitched the budget committee Tuesday and got a fairly warm, backslapping reception. U of I president pointed out that a quarter of the legislature graduated from Moscow. Also, the ACLU is still supporting Larry Craig in Minnesota, whether he likes it or not. And we may soon be able to buy tequila on Election Day...
ACLU joins Craig appeal. Would it have been disorderly conduct if they were sitting on bar stools? ACLU brief: "Because the government may not criminalize private sex, it may not criminalize an invitation to have private sex... This is even so where the invitation is extended in a public place, whether a bar or a restroom." Bolstad in the Statesman. Russell in the Spokesman. Liquor stores could open on election days. Longtime ban on liquor sales during polling could be amended. Former Secrectary of State Pete Cenarrusa: "I think most people act pretty soberly." Druzin in the Statesman. Eight other states still ban liquor sales on election day too. Russell in the Spokesman. Buy the whole bottle. Hopkins in theTimes-News. Otter already tried changing state worker bennies last year. Plan went out to workers but was rescinded after complaints from lawmakers. Admin spokesperson: "We got word from the CEC co-chairs that that was not the direction they wanted us to go and that they wanted us to absorb all cost increases internally." Hoffman in the Boise Weekly... [cont.]
ACLU joins Craig appeal. Would it have been disorderly conduct if they were sitting on bar stools? ACLU brief: "Because the government may not criminalize private sex, it may not criminalize an invitation to have private sex... This is even so where the invitation is extended in a public place, whether a bar or a restroom." Bolstad in the Statesman. Russell in the Spokesman. Liquor stores could open on election days. Longtime ban on liquor sales during polling could be amended. Former Secrectary of State Pete Cenarrusa: "I think most people act pretty soberly." Druzin in the Statesman. Eight other states still ban liquor sales on election day too. Russell in the Spokesman. Buy the whole bottle. Hopkins in theTimes-News. Otter already tried changing state worker bennies last year. Plan went out to workers but was rescinded after complaints from lawmakers. Admin spokesperson: "We got word from the CEC co-chairs that that was not the direction they wanted us to go and that they wanted us to absorb all cost increases internally." Hoffman in the Boise Weekly... [cont.]
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Lt. Gov. Risch and Idaho conservationists were in DC yesterday to testify on a proposed roadless plan. A series of...
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Legislators return to work today with a number of hot bills on the table: a law to close primaries and...
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The budget committee is paying off supplemental requests for last year including more than $20 million for fire fighting. Lawmakers...
