U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo has long said debt is our nation’s biggest threat, but he sees overregulation as a challenger that’s coming on strong. “Overregulation is quickly catching up to the national debt as one of our top threats,” the Idaho Republican told 90 Coeur d’Alene Chamber of Commerce members Tuesday at the Best Western Plus

Via Betsy Z. Russell:  A few tidbits from 1st District GOP Congressman Raul Labrador’s appearance in Eagle today: When a constituent told Labrador, a tea party conservative, that she never watches Fox News, Labrador responded, “I actually watch CNN more than any other, because I don’t want one side or the other to constantly bombard

Via the Idaho Statesman:  After a 9.3 percent increase this year, next year’s set-asides for Idaho state employee health insurance costs are forecast to increase about 10 percent as medical and prescription costs continue to rise, a state legislative committee heard Wednesday. The increase is more or less in line with those other large public

Posted here in full. This is a significant move by our Idaho Rep. Raúl Labrador.  He’s also looking older and grayer than last time I saw him. The stress of the job must we weighing on him.  A year after the U.S. Supreme Court gave same-sex couples the right to marry, Republicans in the House of Representatives

Further mapping of the Snake River Fire shows a much larger blaze than previously thought.  Local managers of the fire are now estimating that about 65 hundred acres have burned in Southern Whitman County.  Volunteers from all over the county and into Idaho were able to hold the Eastern flank of the fire pretty well

Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador today blamed the “establishment in Washington” for the defeat of his ally and fellow Freedom Caucus member Tim Huelskamp, who lost his re-election bid in a Republican primary in Kansas yesterday. Labrador, speaking at a “Conversations with the Congressman” meeting at an Eagle café, said Huelskamp lost “because he went against

Look but don’t touch… A federal judge has declared invalid the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of a gold mining company’s plan to reopen a 4-mile road in a central Idaho wilderness and drill core samples to find out if two of its claims are profitable enough to be mined.   U.S. District Court Judge B. Lynn

Disclosure of a $400 million cash payment from the U.S. to Tehran at the time four Americans were released in January has reignited a political furor over the Iran nuclear deal, potentially complicating White House efforts to fortify it. Critics of the Iran deal said Wednesday that the delivery amounted to paying ransom for the

A constituent wearing a “Promise Keepers” shirt questioned Rep. Raul Labrador today about allowing Muslim refugees into the United States, saying he read the Koran after the 9/11 attacks, and then quoting extensively from it, including, “Slay the idolaters wherever you find them.” Labrador had this response: “I’m not going to judge every Christian on

Dozens of departments protect homes; state crews mobilize.  A roaring wildfire ignited in the Snake River’s Wawawai Canyon at about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, and by 9 p.m. the fire – fueled by dry grass, brush and wind from a Red Flag fire warning day – had reached 11,000 acres and showed no signs of stopping.

Some photos of last night’s turnout for the Conditional Use Permit (CUP) / variance vote for Logos School’s new campus.  There were about 200 people in the conference room (standing room only; people sitting on the floors) as well as overflow of 75-100 people in the hall.  To see the live blogging post, look here:

UPDATE The CUP and Variance passed Moscow Progressives: you should be very proud of Linda Pall. She did everything in her power to torpedo this event at every turn and every motion. However, none of the board members fell for it, not even allowing her to add criteria that no one could meet (seizing private

Due to regional wildfire smoke, the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality issued an Air Quality Forecast and Caution with a mandatory burn ban to notify residents of Clearwater, Idaho, Latah, Lewis and Nez Perce counties of degraded air quality. Air quality was listed in the Moderate category Monday and was expected to remain in that