Speculation that the man who lost $250,000 he borrowed from Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo’s campaign was making a drug reference in naming his company is false, said businessman Gavin McCaleb on Monday. McCaleb’s Blueberry Guru LLC was loaned $250,000 by…
Speculation that the man who lost $250,000 he borrowed from Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo’s campaign was making a drug reference in naming his company is false, said businessman Gavin McCaleb on Monday. McCaleb’s Blueberry Guru LLC was loaned $250,000 by…
Former Sheriff Richard Mack will be back in Idaho in August, following up last year’s controversial appearance at the Kootenai County Republican Party Lincoln Day with a speech to the Gem State Tea Party’s 3rd “Liberty Summit” in Burley. Mack,…
Reps. Sue Chew, D-Boise, and Brandon Hixon, R-Caldwell, have been appointed to the Idaho Commission by House Speaker Scott Bedke, R-Oakley. They join Sens. Dan Johnson, R-Lewiston, and Roy Lacey, D-Pocatello. By law, four of the nine commissioners are legislators.…
Memorial Day weekend kicks off the tourist season in Chesterfield, founded in the 1880s by Mormon pioneers and abandoned as a settlement in the 1940s. Thank to public-private partnerships, including decades of effort by the Chesterfield Foundation and $300,000 secured in…
Sen. Mike Crapo said he’s hoping for comments on the “lack of transparency and accountability” in the Obama administration during the second of his four 2013 telephone town hall meetings Wednesday at 7 p.m. MDT. “Since the last townhall, the…
Former Idaho Democratic Congressman Walt Minnick has been hired by his former colleague Gabrielle Giffords’ to assist her effort to expand background checks on gun purchases. Minnick’s Washington, D.C., firm is Majority Group LLC, which he founded in 2011 after…
Idaho GOP Congressman Mike Simpson acknowledges the legislative futility of the latest vote by the House Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but says making the statement is still worthwhile. “While it may sound like a poor use of…
Idaho GOP Rep. Raul Labrador told Bloomberg that a bipartisan group of eight U.S. House members may be holding their last meeting Thursday to attempt to agree on a compromise immigration bill. If they fail, he said, the Republicans will…
Longtime lawyer-lobbyist Roy Eiguren has formed the Eiguren Fisher Public Policy Firm, the third outfit for which Eiguren has worked in the past year. According to the firm’s new website, their expertise “includes procurements, retail, natural resources, mining, energy development,…
Melaleuca CEO Frank VanderSloot has seized on the brewing IRS scandal in interviews published this week with leading conservative outlets. VanderSloot said what he characterizes as politically motivated federal audits turned out fine — he’ll pay less taxes as a…
