Majority Leader Mike Moyle (R-Star.) has a good thought but I don’t think it will help without some modification: Two House Republican leaders on Tuesday floated the idea of taking $45 million from the federal stimulus package to cut Idaho personal and corporate income tax rates. Mike Moyle, R...

Cheers to the Idaho House of Representatives, who voted 52-17 to crackdown on the practice of stealth elections that lead to absolute mockeries of Democracy such as all Meridian homeowners having to pay higher property taxes in an election most don’t didn’t know about thanks to the votes...

I’ve been kind of busy, but I just had to comment on the Supreme Court’s 9-0 ruling on the Ten Commandments: Governments that receive donations of Ten Commandments displays and other monuments for public parks are not compelled to take everything they are offered, a unanimous Supreme Cou...

With a backlog of charter school applications, and public schools and students desperate for innovation, what does Idaho need? How about a 3 1/2 year moratorium on new charter schools introduced by Dick Sagness (D-Pocatello) who is filling in for Senator Edgar Malepeai (D-Pocatello). Those teachers ...

Emboldened Democratic bloggers are questioning the purity of their own. Binky Boy calls Walt Minnick’s plan, “irresponsible and neglectful” and thinks that $174 billion is “paltry.” (remember we’re in bizarro land where that’s not a whole lot of money.) Tara...

Okay, I’ve got some Idaho blog posts and news story to go through in round-up style: Cheers: Alan at Idablue writes a very nice post about his personal experience with Governor Kempthorne. I’ve never been a huge fan of Kempthorne, but Alan’s observation of Kempthorne shows a great ...

Chris at Unequivocal Notion writes: Sloganeering will get us nowhere — however Republicans in the legislature need to realize that their Democratic comrades were elected by Idahoans – and those Idahoans also deserve to have representation in the Statehouse. In the spirit of our new bi-partisan a...

Walt Minnick has been in Congress less than a month, but already he’s got base issues: Walt Minnick yet again voted which his new BFF Mike Simpson, and opposed the release of the second half of the TARP funds.I understand that Walt has to be a conservative Dem, but he still needs to be a Dem. ...

A response to the substance of Tara’s post rather than just the taking umbrage part: In response to a well-written and superbly researched piece regarding taxes, Bryan Fischer and the Idaho Values Alliance, Idaho’s conservative blogger Adam Graham took an infuriating position: Instead of...

I’m not on board with Govenror Otter’s new Transportation Plan. It’s not as bad as the last one, but I’m a bit of a hard case (to put it mildly) when it comes to tax increases. However, the Democrats’ “People over Potholes” meme is a tad absurd and one of my...