Something’s been missing from Boise’s skyline for the past couple of weeks – something big, bright and patriotic. It’s the giant American flag that long has flown over the hilltop home of the late J.R. Simplot. Now, a bare, tall flagpole stands a lonely guard…
Though Idaho lawmakers agreed to raise state employee pay this year by an average of 3 percent, state worker salaries have fallen even further behind market rates. An annual state report shows that Idaho classified state employee pay now lags 22.6 percent below market rates,…
It’s time to catch up on the news I missed while I was off for the past week, from an armed militia group taking over a closed-for-the-holiday wildlife refuge office building in Burns, Ore. over the weekend, to an Idaho lawmaker citing Rush Limbaugh as his go-to source on global warming, to the lowering of a giant potato...