BOISE – After Gov. Brad Little on Monday quietly and without comment signed the nation’s most far-reaching anti-transgender legislation into law, reactions have been pouring in from around Idaho and across the country, but Little himself has remained mum.
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Gov. Brad Little has issued his 6th veto of this year's legislative session, rejecting HB 340a, the bill that sought to allow North Idaho pastor and current state Rep. Tim Remington to run a youth residential drug treatment program without a state license. Remington ran such a program several years …
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Gov. Brad Little fielded coronavirus questions from nearly a dozen worried Idahoans around the state on Tuesday, in his third weekly statewide teleconference with the Idaho AARP.
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Idaho Gov. Brad Little today signed HB 601, the bill to add new public records exemptions for legislators and public officials; and HB 440a, Rep. Heather Scott's anti-affirmative action bill, which amends the Idaho Human Rights Act to forbid any preferences for women or minorities, except in cases where such …
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BOISE — Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney said Monday afternoon that the governor won't be delaying the May 19 primary election, but it'll go all-absentee due to the risk from coronavirus.
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Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney said this afternoon that the governor won't be delaying the May 19 primary election, but it'll go all-absentee due to the risk from coronavirus. “He is not going to delay it,” Denney told the Idaho Press. Denney said he anticipates a formal announcement probably …
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With the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Brad Little today ordered a 1% general fund holdback, cutting about $40 million from the state budget; agencies involved in direct response to the virus will be exempted. Little also announced a $39 million transfer from the tax relief fund to the …
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House and Senate Democrats held a sine die press conference late this afternoon, even though the House hasn't yet adjourned sine die. "I feel the session was marked by tone-deafness and missed opportunities," said House Minority Leader Ilana Rubel, D-Boise. "Our colleagues took a hard right turn into divisive social …
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The House has just come back on the floor and adjourned until tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. – so no adjournment sine die tonight, at least for the House. A quorum of the House must be present to adjourn sine die; same for the Senate. And lawmakers are becoming increasingly …
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Gov. Brad Little just announced that with the community spread of coronavirus in Blaine County, that county now is reporting 16 cases of COVID-19, including two in health care workers. That figure is inclusive of the five already reported, so it’s 11 new cases. “At this time, it does not …
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