James Tidmarsh

It was a busy day for education at the statehouse Monday.  A measure clarifying when parents will start to play a role in the evaluation of their child's teacher has cleared the Idaho Legislature.  M

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Public schools chief Tom Luna says money the governor hoped to funnel toward an education reserve fund should instead be used to offset a $19 million reduction in salaries in 2013.  The state is moving the money from salaries to help pay for classroom technology and teacher pay-for-performance as part of Luna's "St

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Idaho House members have voted 54-16 to boot Occupy Boise protesters from state-managed ground near the Capitol building. Before the vote this morning, Rep.  Steve Hartgen of Twin Falls reminded lawmakers the bill dealt with settled law, where the U.S. Supreme

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The Buhl School District will be receiving $100,000, from the Target Corporation and the Ellen DeGeneres Show. The grant is part of a $5 million donation to K-12 schools, Buhl was one of two school districts and 48 schools chosen to receive the mo

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Check your lottery tickets…you may have won a thousand dollars a week for a year. According to the Idaho lottery commission a “Weekly Grand “ ticket worth fifty two thousand dollars was sold in Twin Falls County. The

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Deputies say the burglaries took place sometime during the night of Friday, January 20th, in a subdivision south of the Jerome Country Club. They say multiple homes were broken into. None of the resident were home at the time of the break-ins.  The Jerome County Sheriff’s Office is

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This is the third water line break the area has experienced this winter. In December a pipe broke under the street near Glambia foods on South Washington. Earlier this month workers discovered a break in rock creek, which had been flowing for several days

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The Republican Party is suing the secretary of state over redistricting in the Idaho Supreme Court.  The party contends its chairman and the speaker of the House of Representatives have the power to fire their appointees and name new me

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State lawmakers have taken the first step toward ending the Occupy Boise camp. The House State Affairs Committee passed a bill this morning that would prevent camping on state property. House Bill 404 is being sent to

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News radio 1310 KLIX will air President Obama's State of the Union speech and GOP rebuttal live starting at 7:00 pm tonight. Expected topics include the economy, the military draw down, and the budget.  Following the speech, join News Radio 1310 KLIX's Kelly Kl

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