BOISE — State budget writers on Thursday approved North Idaho College’s $302,300 budget request for expanding programs at its Sandpoint Outreach Center.
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BOISE — While a lobbyist for AAA Idaho asked state lawmakers to “tap the brakes” on legislation that could lead to higher speed limits, the House Transportation and Defense Committee on Tuesday kept a steady foot on the accelerator.
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BOISE — Despite concerns from the ACLU of Idaho, Rep. Luke Malek’s bill targeting “revenge pornography,” gained the House Judiciary, Rules, and Administration Committee’s approval Monday.
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BOISE — Idaho tribal leaders on Friday — including Kootenai Tribe council member Gary Aitken Jr. — expressed concerns about the offensive nature some sports mascots represent to Indian tribes.
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BOISE — State tax incentive legislation — introduced Friday — that borrows a page from Utah’s economic development playbook would make Idaho more economically competitive with the Beehive State, a North Idaho legislator said.
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BOISE — Prejudgment interest rates allowed in state code could be dropped to 7.5 percent from the current 12 percent if a bill currently under consideration at the Legislature gets amended and becomes law.
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BOISE — U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo on Tuesday urged state senators to pass a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at strengthening the Idaho Legislature’s legal ability to review — and sometimes reject — state agency rules.
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BOISE — Riding roughshod over the objections of Idaho’s eight colleges and universities — and the State Board of Education — a state Senate committee Wednesday approved NRA-backed legislation creating exceptions for carrying firearms on college campuses.
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BOISE — While one North Idaho lawmaker questioned why it shouldn’t receive a public hearing, four legislators from the region voted on Monday in favor of legislation to create an Idaho constitutional amendment to solidify the Legislature’s oversight of state agency rules.
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BOISE — The House tax committee on Friday gave introductory approval to a cable telecommunications industry-backed measure that would provide state income tax credits to individuals and small businesses to help build broadband services.
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BOISE — State legislation to reject some EPA regulations was unanimously introduced in the House State Affairs Committee Thursday after Rep. Eric Anderson, R-Priest Lake, expressed uneasiness about it.
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BOISE — Sen. Bob Nonini said he wants more information on a bill introduced Tuesday which would let the Idaho Transportation Board raise freeway speed limits to 80 miles per hour while accelerating top-out levels to 70 mph on state highways.
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BOISE — A bill by Sen. Shawn Keough that seeks to remodel the Idaho Safe Boating Act in regard to the term “grossly negligent operation,” gained introductory approval Monday from a Senate committee.
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BOISE— North Idaho College President Joe Dunlap on Monday reiterated NIC’s opposition to state legislation to create new exemptions for carrying guns on Idaho’s college and university campuses.
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BOISE — Funding levels are adequate at the state Department of Agriculture to fend off the invasive water milfoil plant and quagga mussels, a division administrator at the agency told state legislators.
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BOISE — A North Idaho College spokesman on Monday took issue with state legislation that would create new exemptions for carrying firearms on Idaho’s college campuses.
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BOISE — Public schools superintendent Tom Luna on Thursday pitched a $500,000 line-item budget request for a new Idaho school security program modeled after the one used in Texas.
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BOISE — Gov. Butch Otter on Tuesday literally applauded state Sen. Shawn Keough’s efforts to try to get Idaho agencies to make more efficient use of public transportation dollars.
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BOISE — Processes in the Idaho Legislature’s joint budget committee may seem stuck in an arcane world of finance wonks. They might look hopelessly entangled in an uncertainty mirrored by the gray sandstone facade of the state Capitol building.
