In one budget bill, lawmakers required the Idaho Commission for Libraries to swear by affidavit that school libraries aren’t disseminating harmful material to minors.

Senate Bill 1196, requires the Idaho Commission for Libraries to report on compliance by state and school libraries with ...

Senate Minority Leader Melissa Wintrow sits on Idaho's powerful budgeting committee; she describes the process this year as ...

We funded essential government services: roads, water, public safety, health care and education while limiting general fund spending growth. | Opinion ...

The Idaho Legislature’s powerful budget committee redrafted two failed budgets on Wednesday afternoon and sent signals that a ...

The Senate approved a budget for universities, including a $ 2 million cut each to the University of Idaho and Boise State ...

The Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee (JFAC) voted 17-2, with one absent, to pass the enhancement budget for the tax commission. Laura Guido is the Statehouse reporter and covers Idaho ...

All of the debate bemoaned that the budget’s inclusion of a $2 million cut each to the University of Idaho and Boise State University over alleged DEI — which stands for diversity, equity and ...

(Back in the day, JFAC carefully avoided budgeting for individual institutions to avoid regional conflicts, but never mind.) That $2 million is only a small piece of either university’s budget. Sen.

Idahoans can breathe a sigh of relief now that the Legislature has folded its tent and gone home. The bright side of this ...