An intramural spat over gun rights and school safety legislation prompted by December’s Connecticut school shooting has erupted on Facebook between House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, R-Star, Sen. Marv Hagedorn, R-Meridian, and Rep. Judy Boyle, R-Midvale. On Tuesday, Hagedorn’s school…
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GOP lawmakers battle on Facebook over Idaho gun rights, school safety bills
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The dark Statehouse art of ‘radiator capping’
The operative phrase at the Statehouse Tuesday was “radiator capping.” This is a term lawmakers use to describe the process of completing rewriting a bill on the House or Senate floor. Think in terms of a car. In amending the…
Expulsion bill: an alternative school’s take
A bill making schools off-limits to violent convicted criminals would affect the state’s alternative high schools. And in a story in today’s Times-News in Twin Falls, Statehouse reporter Melissa Davlin spoke to an alternative high school principal, Lauri Heward of Burley’s…
Pocatello allows SROs to carry rifles
School resource officers will be allowed to bring service rifles into Pocatello schools — but the weapons will be stored in locked safes. The Pocatello School Board approved the policy Wednesday night, according to the Idaho State Journal. A few talking…
