Dorothy Moon reelected as chair of the Idaho Republican Party
By Clark Corbin
Idaho Capital Sun
Idaho Republican Party Chair Dorothy Moon was reelected to a second two-year term, as party members met at North Idaho College during the final …
By Clark Corbin
Idaho Capital Sun
Idaho Republican Party Chair Dorothy Moon was reelected to a second two-year term, as party members met at North Idaho College during the final …
By Clark Corbin
Idaho Capital Sun
Due to legislative disagreements about Republican House leadership and fights over budgeting procedures and rules that played out behind the scenes during the first …
By Clark Corbin
Idaho Capital Sun
With almost 30,000 California expatriates leading the charge, the number of Republican voters moving from other states to Idaho dwarfs the number of Democrats …
By Clark Corbin
Idaho Capital Sun
Idaho’s bipartisan redistricting commission proposed a new map of state legislative districts Oct. 28, representing a potential breakthrough for the group working to redraw …
By Clark Corbin
Idaho Capital Sun
The Idaho Legislature’s Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on Oct. 19 did not discuss or debate Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin’s supplemental budget request to have taxpayers …
By Clark Corbin
Idaho Capital Sun
The campaign trail is crowded at the top of the ticket with almost a dozen candidates challenging the incumbent governor just as Idaho moves …
By Clark Corbin
Idaho Capital Sun
Officials with Reclaim Idaho have asked the state to issue a revised financial analysis of their updated ballot initiative language, a state official said. …
By Clark Corbin
Idaho Capital Sun
Lifelong Republican Jennifer Ellis almost doesn’t even recognize her own political party when she looks at some of Idaho’s far-right legislators who dominated the …
By Clark Corbin
Idaho Capital Sun
Depending on whom you ask, the 2021 legislative session was either a productive success on multiple fronts, or one of the worst sessions of …
By Clark Corbin
Idaho Capital Sun
The ongoing 2021 legislative session has cost the state of Idaho nearly $450,000 since legislators returned from their first recess April 6.
From April …
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