In response to all the harmful bills introduced by the GOP this past session, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Idaho asked people all over the state to mail in homemade paper hearts, representing the 48,000 Idaho residents who identified as LGBTQ+ in the... ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the process by which three education-related bills passed through the Idaho State Legislature. This study was also designed to identify factors of influence that shape legislative decision-making on education-related issues as perceived by Idaho's ...
A good measuring stick for the how “republican” Idaho’s Republican Party dominated legislature is, is the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s (IFF) legislator scoring results. IFF scores bills based on whether they promote limited government and individual liberties. These scores indicate there is more ...
Separate bills to annex north Idaho to Washington Territory pass each chamber of Congress, but are not reconciled. Construction on the Territorial Capitol completed. Nampa city platted.1887 -Electric light plant goes into operation at Hailey to supply power for territory's first electric lights. Wa...
State leaders in Washington, Oregon and California have promoted the West Coast as a safe haven for abortion procedures, and lawmakers in Oregon and Washington are considering bills to shield abortion providers and patients from criminal liability. Oregon's bill would allow physicians to provide abort...
In a report last September,Pew foundthat Idaho was one of six states in which authorities can prosecute health care providers for performing abortions. "The Idaho Legislature continues to introduce and pass bills that criminalize physicians for medical care nationally recognized as...
This year, she said she traveled to Montana and South Dakota to testify in favor of similar bills in those states. Ehardt also testified or has plans to testify in front of several other state legislatures remotely, she said. When she travels to testify on those bills, Ehardt said she doe...
We should be asking who (the U.S. Government, the FWS, the wolf advocates) will be paying the health bills and funeral expenses for those who will ultimately become infected as a result of wolf introduction into Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. ...
Across the country, 16 state legislatures have introduced bills similar to Idaho’s that would restrict trans women and girls from competing in sports aligned with their gender identity as opposed to their biological sex. (Meanwhile, a lawsuit is playing out in Connecticut that challenges the stat...
Idaho Republican Rep. Bruce Skaug, one of the coauthors of the bills, said that he believed that the U.S. Supreme Court 2008 ruling declaring it unconstitutional to apply the death penalty in cases of child rape where the victim survived was "the wrong decision." ...