Dan Popkey
Bob Kustra’s unique perspective on ethics in politics
As Idaho considers new efforts to ensure high government ethics, one Idahoan has a unique perspective: BSU President Bob Kustra. He spent 18 years in high office in a ‘dirty’ state, but he tells Dan Popkey that even in Illinois the great majority...
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IDAHO LEGISLATURE
Popkey: Painful day in the Idaho Senate as "Add the Words" gay-rights bill killed
It took five minutes for Republicans on the Senate State Affairs Committee to extinguish a bill Friday that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
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IDAHO LEGISLATURE
Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry offers new plan to nix personal property tax
Idaho’s most powerful business lobby, the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry, proposed eliminating what it calls the “most hated tax” after state revenues grew by 8 percent over the biggest revenue year in history, to $3.14 billion.
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IDAHO LEGISLATURE
Dan Popkey: Chairmen of Idaho tax committees ease historic acrimony
When Sen. Tim Corder, the new chairman of the Senate Local Government & Taxation Committee, suggested a first-ever joint hearing, House Revenue & Taxation Committee Chairman Dennis Lake might well have blown off Corder.
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IDAHO LEGISLATURE
Idaho budget writers urged to restore Medicaid funding
Friday’s public hearing drew more than 300 people to the Capitol Auditorium, and most of those signed up to testify called on budget writers to restore $35 million cut from Medicaid in the current fiscal year.
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POLITICS
Idaho Falls billionaire VanderSloot among Romney’s big-money boosters
Super Pac superman? Frank VanderSloot’s Melaleuca Inc. and three affiliates exporting to Asia each gave $250,000 to Restore Our Future, the independent campaign founded by three top aides from Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign.
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POLITICS
Dan Popkey: Democrat’s defection roils the Idaho Statehouse
The defection of former Democratic operative John Foster to the campaign to save Tom Luna’s school reforms has Idaho’s Capitol buzzing.
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POLITICS
Democrat’s defection roils Idaho Statehouse: Former party official and Minnick aide will work to save Luna’s school reforms
Gov. Butch Otter’s recruitment of John Foster, a former Idaho Democratic Party executive director, suggests Otter is taking seriously his promise to defend “Students Come First” at the polls Nov. 6.
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POLITICS
With Idaho Republican Chairman Semanko leaving, Gov. Otter seeks a replacement
Otter says he’s working on finding a GOP chairman now so he can avoid the embarrassment he suffered when his candidate lost in 2008.
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IDAHO LEGISLATURE
Dan Popkey: House Speaker Denney wanders the heath
House Speaker Lawerence Denney’s latest misstep could cost him a record-tying fourth term as speaker.
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IDAHO LEGISLATURE
Dan Popkey: If Obama’s the ‘food stamp president,’ what’s Idaho Gov. Otter?
If Barack Obama is the “food stamp president,” is Butch Otter the food stamp governor?
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