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Go figure that one out. Nicotine-free e-liqs are tobacco products. Talk about government intelligence!  This week, responding to one of the lawsuits challenging its e-cigarette regulations, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) further muddied the question of whether those regulations apply to products that do not contain tobacco-derived nicotine. The lawsuit, which was brought by Nicopure, a manufacturer of e-liquids […]

A new federal ruling may add to some confusion on how existing civil rights laws address discrimination claims in situations involving transgender people. A federal judge with the United States District Court of east Michigan has ruled that a Detroit area funeral home did not engage in illegal discrimination when it fired an employee who was transitioning

Finland has been testing autonomous EasyMile buses on public roads for a little while now, but away from the hustle and bustle of its big cities. Now the Scandinavian country is ready to try out the adorable, driverless people-movers on the mean streets of Helsinki. Finland is one of the first countries to try out

This probably doesn’t interest most of you. But my former life was as a ballistic-missile sub driver.  While it’s a big ocean, when you are operating in close support, these kinds of things can happen — especially when the support vessel is not moving (making no sound) or is bow-on to the submarine. You just

Here’s a classic example of supply and demand, and where the government gets in the way of capitalism.  US & Mexico have limited the number of flights between certain cities. That means that the cost of flights is increased. Who does that help? The corporations!  Tell the governments to just get out of the way! 

Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition wants agencies to choose different route for highway realignment.  The Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition filed a legal complaint Thursday against the Idaho Transportation Department and the Federal Highway Administration in the Central Division of U.S. District Court for Idaho over their plans for widening U.S. Highway 95 south of Moscow. According

This applies to minimum-wage workers only. By raising the minimum wage, it becomes affordable to hire robots over human workers.  Well done, progressives, for putting low-skilled, high school / college aged students out of a job. Feel better about yourselves now?  The concept is also known as Universal Basic Income, and it really is just that.

So the police have a tool that helps them predict where the highest incidence of crime is.  And it is racist, of course. Data and analytic tools are inherently racist, don’t ‘cha know.  The algorithm added folks to the list based not just on arrest records but whether someone is socially connected to a shooter

Education Networks of America and CenturyLink have each sued the state of Idaho in federal court over the failed Idaho Education Network project to provide internet service to Idaho high schools and state agencies. ENA and CenturyLink are each seeking at least $18.5 million in damages and other costs, according to the lawsuits filed Friday. 

From Bring To Light:  … In the spring of 2015, a man who wishes to remain anonymous noticed that his wife was unwell. They were in their home in city limits on the north side of Moscow. He saw what he thought were stroke-like symptoms and he knew something was not right. At first he tried

If this had happened to anyone else in the government… Via the Idaho Statesman:  There is no evidence that Hillary Clinton or her top aides completed ethics training when they started at the State Department as required by federal law. State Department records show only three of nine top Clinton aides took the mandated training for

Well, that’s $135m in taxpayer money down the drain. Again.  Good thing that progressives have an infinite amount of taxpayer money to experiment with.  Idaho’s investment of $135 million in a math initiative and training for teachers has failed to move the needle when it comes to student achievement in mathematics. And when the investment

DENVER — Do you think this election is just between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump? If the answer is yes, you would be wrong. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson now has 16 percent support among Coloradans in the latest Quinnipiac poll.  Additionally, the poll gives Johnson an 11 point lead over Donald Trump with voters 18-34. Hillary

HAILEY, Idaho – A school district in central Idaho has approved a new gender inclusion policy that allows students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity. The Idaho Mountain Express reports that trustees with the Blaine County School District adopted the policy Tuesday. The policy prohibits discrimination based on gender

Idaho’s unemployment rate in July slightly bumped up from last month to 3.8 percent. The Idaho Department of Labor in a news release Friday says continued demand for workers and an increase in people looking for work caused the rate to move from the previous 3.7 percent. The last time state’s unemployment increased was in