43rd State Blues: Democracy for Ida (Free subscription) | 04/22/2009
The following statement was emailed by Brian Cronin, one of three new Democrats in the Idaho Legislature this year. He represents District 19 (Boise 's North End, East End, Foothills, and downtown) in House Seat B. BOISE — Idaho may lose out on federal funds to encourage active parenting and promote school readiness now that Gov. Butch Otter has vetoed House Bill 245, the Parents as Teachers...
She got up and caught a 3:00 a.m. flight to Boise ID recently, with 300 pounds of documents including a petition with something like 325,000 signatures to catch Chief Justice Roberts who was speaking there at the U of Idaho, and was able to deliver the documents to him. CAN ANYONE HELP FIND/PROVIDE A COPY of the VIDEO TAKEN BACKSTAGE BY A PRIVATE WEBCAM, posted on youTube and then scrubbed clean? AS...
It's been a week since my family and friends said our farewell(s) to my son, Nate Mansfield, at the Morris Hills Cemetary in Boise Idaho. We visited it again today and saw the flowers we placed on his casket -...
Details from Spokesman Review Betsy Russell's blog An Eye on Boise . The House has voted 49-20 for HB 262, to cut $8.1 million from school funding next year by freezing movement on the teacher salary schedule for increased experience for a year, and phasing out an early retirement incentive. “Tough issues call for tough votes, and today is going to be another tough vote,” Rep. Bob Nonini,...
Back when my mom was growing up in Boise, Idaho, the Klan used to burn crosses in the yards of Catholics. (Boise had few blacks or Jews, so the Klan had to make do, I suppose.) We could have those...
heard all week about President Obama's much anticipated appearance on The Tonight Show, the first for a sitting president. I didn't see it, as I was about 500 nautical miles south of Key West when the comment was made. Jay Leno asked him if he had practiced bowling in the White House bowling alley, a follow-up to his embarrassing performance at the lanes while courting voters in Pennsylvania during...
Unanimously? Even all the Dems bought into this? Even Shirley Ringo? Details from Spokesman Review Betsy Russell's blog An Eye on Boise . Consensus legislation allowing unprecedented cuts in public school funding in Idaho has passed the House on a 69-0 vote. House Education Chairman Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d'Alene, sponsor of HB 252, called the bill "a piece of work that a lot of people spent a lot...
Only in Idaho. Details from Spokesman Review Betsy Russell's blog An Eye on Boise . Rep. Pete Nielsen, R-Mountain Home, today persuaded the House to vote 61-9 in favor of his legislation, HB 229, to declare that during a state of "extreme emergency" including martial law, invasion or insurrection, "No government authority will have the right to come and pick up our arms and ammunition."...
Adam Graham has a great take on the confederacy outbreak that occurred down in Boise. Adam writes : Political correctness will rot a thinking mind. Case in point, the reaction to the following statement from Id. Rep. Dick Harwood (R-St. Maries): Promoting his state sovereignty resolution on the floor of the Idaho House of Representatives on Monday, St. Maries Rep. Dick Harwood declared that the United...
From the AP: Mean dogs stand guard at Idaho prison Nobody has broken out of the Idaho State Correctional Institution in more than 20 years. Prison officials like to think a hard-bitten corps of sentries with names like Cookie, Bongo and Chi Chi has had something to do with that. The institution is the only state prison in the U.S. to use snarling, snapping sentry dogs to patrol its perimeter... 24...
The No. 44 Nebraska men's tennis team looks to extend its current 11-match winning streak this weekend in Boise, Idaho, when it participates in the Boise State Red Lion Spring Break Tournament. The Huskers are part of a talented field headlined by host Boise State. The Broncos enter the tournament ranked at No. 23 in the nation and own an 11-7 overall record. Other teams participating include Ball...
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