Here we have Idaho: ‘This is not necessary’
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
For those keeping score at home, the Idaho Legislature was in session for more than 300 days this year — pushing the part-time, “citizen Legislature” …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
For those keeping score at home, the Idaho Legislature was in session for more than 300 days this year — pushing the part-time, “citizen Legislature” …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Only twice before has the Idaho Legislature been in session as long as it has in 2021. In 2003, lawmakers sat for a record 118 …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Lawmakers in Boise gaveled back into session April 6 after an 18-day recess prompted by an outbreak of COVID-19 among a number legislators and staffers; …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Gem State lawmakers remain in recess until Tuesday, April 6 — in what Capitol watchers have referred to as a “historic” suspension of proceedings owing …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The big tax cut
Idaho House members approved on strict party lines a $389 million tax cut for state ratepayers, which proponents said would provide …
By Sen. Jim Woodward
Reader Contributor
A major task each legislative session is creating and approving a plan for how we will spend our state tax dollars in the upcoming …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
As most Idaho Statehouse watchers anticipated, the fight over the governor’s emergency powers and COVID-19 health orders has become the dominant political story only a …
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