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On Sept. 7, the Idaho Freedom Foundation (IFF) requested information from the Blackfoot School District under the Idaho Freedom for Information Act. The request made by IFF director of operations was for: "all documents relating to an expense detailed as 'contracted services' for the amount of $105,428 for the time period of Jan. 1 through […]
Idaho’s new state controller says he is unlikely to support a change in policy that allowed the state Land Board’s controversial purchase of a commercial business two years ago. Controller Brandon Woolf told Idaho Reporter.com that he supports his former boss’s vote to buy Boise-based Affordable Storage, a for-profit enterprise, and to direct the profits […]
(Note: This is the first of a three-part series examining what a “yes” or “no” vote means on the state’s three propositions to be decided by voters in the general election Nov. 6. Wednesday Proposition 2 will be featured. Thursday it will be Proposition 3.) --- In what would otherwise be a less-than-contentious general election […]
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has approved an increase effective Oct. 1 in the surcharge that subsidizes the high cost of rural telephone service. What? You did not know that you are helping to pay for rural phone service. Idaho Code 62-610A requires that "all consumers in this state, without regard to their location, […]
The Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) says that it can expect to take in $2.6 million in rent through its investment in a commercial building in downtown Boise, but critics of public involvement in private-sector business operations claim that this expectation is overstated because it doesn't take into account the actuarial uncertainty of potential business […]
High school sports from the Friday night football game to basketball, volleyball, baseball, softball track and field, tennis, golf … you name it, it has a constituency who live and die with the outcome of the events. High school sports rank right up there with mom, apple pie and Chevrolets. Every year, big bucks are […]
SWATting? What the heck is that? Star, Idaho, resident David Fix knows. He has had an up close and personal view of it and he did not enjoy the experience. The term is a not-so-veiled reference to the actions of police SWAT teams, which descend in force to a perceived problem that may require an […]
The Riverside Hotel ballroom in Boise burst at the seams Thursday night as more than 600 supporters of the Idaho Freedom Foundation joined in the organization's third annual Idaho Freedom Celebration and Banquet. This nearly doubled attendance from last year's event, with the capacity crowd turning out in record numbers to see the event's keynote […]
Recent data compiled by the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) and released in a report by the Idaho Freedom Foundation says that almost 31 percent of Idaho teens aged 16-19 were unemployed in 2011. Another study found that at least 2,000 additional Idaho teens would have been employed if the minimum wage had not been increased […]
Media reports have proliferated across the country in recent days regarding the Idaho State Liquor Division's decision not to stock Five Wives Vodka, a brand manufactured by Ogden's Own Distillery in Utah. The earliest stories especially focused on the brand's indirect reference to polygamy, indicating that it had been rejected for sale because the state's […]
A pair of national surveys ranking the business climates in each state show that, according to respondents, Idaho stacks up fairly well—with distinct room for improvement. They also shed light on the differences between what managers of large and small businesses are looking for in a growth-friendly state. The 2012 survey by Chief Executive magazine gauges the opinions […]
The Idaho Land Board has come under some amount of fire for its dealings in commercial properties. On one side of the controversy is the sentiment that the Land Board is just another government bureaucracy and should not be involved in anything that competes directly with the private sector, such as a storage unit facility […]
