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Idaho Congressional Delegation Call For Balanced Federal Budget
Idaho Congressional Delegation Call For Balanced Federal Budget
Idaho Congressional Delegation Call For Balanced Federal Budget
Idaho's congressional delegation have returned with its call to balance the federal budget. Constitutions in Idaho and 48 other states require state lawmakers to balance the budget for every single year. Not so with the federal budget. Idaho Senator Jim Risch tells Idaho's news channel 7 that's something that's got to change...
City Officials Examine Employee Pay
City Officials Examine Employee Pay
City Officials Examine Employee Pay
Twin Falls city officials have been trying to deal with the recession and a dwindling budget to keep things going.  Now, the Times News reports today that an employee pay survey that was conducted about a year ago found that compensation that Twin Falls city pays its employees is behind other comparable city governments…by nearly 8 percent.
Twin Falls City Council Warned Of Budget Woes
Twin Falls City Council Warned Of Budget Woes
Twin Falls City Council Warned Of Budget Woes
The Twin Falls City Council could be facing some cold hard facts in the near future.  At the city council meeting last night they were told by City Community Development Director Mitch Humble that “We cannot preserve historic levels of service and historic tax policy. Something has to change.”
Wolf Delisting Part Of Federal Budget
Wolf Delisting Part Of Federal Budget
Wolf Delisting Part Of Federal Budget
An attachment to a federal budget bill needed to avert a government shutdown would take gray wolves off the endangered species list across most of the Northern Rockies. Wildlife advocates conceded Tuesday the wolf provision was all but certain to remain in the spending bill after efforts to remove it failed...
Top Story 4/1/11:Conservatives Are Wacko’s? Conservatives Only Want To Kill Children
Top Story 4/1/11:Conservatives Are Wacko’s? Conservatives Only Want To Kill Children
Top Story 4/1/11:Conservatives Are Wacko’s? Conservatives Only Want To Kill Children
Top Story Podcast 4/1/11: First hour: Conservative wacko's who oppose Obama care because...and Steve Crump with the Times News. Second hour: Conservatives want to cut the budget to kill 70,000 children. The director of USAID says if the Republicans get their way and cut the budget they way they want to it will cause the deaths of at least 70,000 children around the world because that money is used
JFAC Approves Education Budget
JFAC Approves Education Budget
JFAC Approves Education Budget
For the third year in a row, the public education budget will decrease, but State School Superintendent, Tom Luna, says that this year's cut will be a relief for most districts.  State departments across Idaho have been taking drastic budget cuts during this legislative session.  Luna says schools have been preparing for the worst, but Monday morning the budget writers gave schools some mixed news
Bill to Cut Higher Education Budget Clears Senate
Bill to Cut Higher Education Budget Clears Senate
Bill to Cut Higher Education Budget Clears Senate
The Idaho Senate has approved a higher education budget with a $7.6 million cut in state support. The Senate voted 28-7 along party lines to pass the budget for Idaho's public universities, which is up $19 million in total funding but with the cut in state general funds, will force the schools to rely more on dedicated funds that primarily consist of student tuition and fees...
Two State Agencies Set To See Budget Increases
Two State Agencies Set To See Budget Increases
Two State Agencies Set To See Budget Increases
The Idaho Transportation Department will get about $562 million for fiscal year 2012, according to a budget passed by the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee. That's up 16.3 percent -- or $78.8 million -- from the budget lawmakers set last year...
More Budget Cuts On The Way
More Budget Cuts On The Way
More Budget Cuts On The Way
State agencies are bracing themselves for a new round of budget cuts. According to the current proposal, Schools would have to give up $60 million, Medicaid would lose $22 million, while colleges and universities would sacrifice $10.9 million.