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Previously, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 51, a bill to make the District of Columbia a state. Unfortunately, this bill passed the House on a party-line vote of 216-208 and has now been sent to the Senate, where I ...

Not surprisingly, it’s been a big year for hospitals and health care facilities, which is why our Focus this week on that subject is so timely. Our intrepid reporter Catie Clark has been covering the problems that rural Idaho hospitals ...

Idaho has the most conservative House of Representatives it has ever seen. That is not the doing of House Speaker Scott Bedke. Bedke hasn’t changed at all, clocking in at 66% right now on the Idaho Freedom Index.  What’s different ...

The PropTech market is on fire. A recent report from the venture capital firm MetaProp shows PropTech start-ups’ confidence in future fundraising to have reached an all-time high. Almost 40 percent of startups who were surveyed said it would be easier to get venture capital funding ...

The return of summer is almost here in Idaho — an event that in 2021 is especially welcome as our state, and our great nation, are finally emerging from the COVID-induced hibernation. Accordingly, Idaho citizens can expect to see a ...

The past 13 months have presented enormous challenges for students, parents, teachers and school administrators. The sudden changes in work life, home life and social life, along with new ways of learning and instructing, have firmly placed the COVID-19 pandemic ...

The biggest misconception people have about estate planning is that “they are not that old, and can do it later,” say almost half of advisors in a recent Key Private Bank Advisor Poll on estate planning. Yet, the majority of ...

This week, the Bureau of Reclamation released the Klamath Project 2021 Temporary Operations Plan, which was developed in response to consecutive years of drought conditions in the Klamath Basin. Decisions were made to use the limited water to assist the ...

Construction is always one of our most popular topics, and our focus section this week is on this important area.  Besides, it lends itself to such great headline puns — “Building on Idaho” and so on.  Our main article this ...

Nearly 100 members of Idaho Business for Education (IBE) recently wrote an open letter to the members of the Idaho House of Representatives. We wrote this letter because we are concerned with the anti-education campaign that has been waged this ...