C. Otter News

" Fired Idaho Transportation Director Pam Lowe says she was forced out after refusing to send unnecessary state work and money to politically connected companies.

A former campaign manager for Idaho Gov. Butch Otter is facing charges charges. Police say Jason Lehosit was arrested Wednesday for violating his probation.

Over the past year, many state jobs and programs have been reduced or eliminated in Idaho.

Gov. Butch Otter celebrated today at a ceremony marking the completion of a project to widen the most-traveled section of I-84 in Idaho, between Meridian and Garrity Road.

Two problems for the national GOP that I've been writing about for several years are in evidence in a special election going on in upstate New York, for an open Congressional seat long held by a moderate Republican.

Jay Baldwin, joint director of communications for North Idaho College, will moderate the Coeur d'Alene candidates' forum at 7 o'clock tonight in Room 106 of the Meyer Health Building, sponsored by campus Young Republicans and the Communications Department.

The Idaho Legislature's minority Democrats are pushing Gov. Butch Otter to delay boosting insurance premiums for part-time state workers.

" Slight Lean Republican - " When former Governor Roy Barnes declared in June that he was running for his old job, all the talk was that other Democrats would abandon the race.

During a mostly serious, traditional ceremony, M. Duane Nlellis and Idaho Gov. C.L. Otter share a laugh Friday, during Nellis's inauguration as the University of Idaho's 17th President at the Kibbie Dome in Moscow.

Wolf hunting has always been a hot topic, especially among farmers and the elder generation in Idaho.

University of Idaho President Duane Nellis has announced his plan for the 6 percent mid-year budget cut at the university ordered by Gov.

The departure of the Idaho Department of Water Resources director has complicated debate over resurrecting the Teton Dam, which failed spectacularly in 1976.

With Gov. Butch Otter aboard, an Idaho state plane sustained damage to one of its cockpit windshields while flying to a Friday morning speech in Pocatello, the Idaho State Journal reported.

An Idaho group is raising a stink over the state's last remaining indoor smoking refuges, hoping a new study of air pollution in bars adds momentum to efforts to get cities to also snuff out cigarettes and stogies in drinking establishments.

That's what lawmakers on a special joint legislative task force decided last week after hours of hearings that stretched through the summer designed to pinpoint alternative funding for the two state agencies.

Either Richard Wolffe is blatantly shilling for the liberal/progressive agenda in the United States or he really is incredibly cynical about how the Republican Party picks its leader.

I: Idaho Power Says It Will Trim CO2 Emissions to Below 2005 Levels By 2013 Idaho Power and its parent IDACORP last week told their Board of Directors the state's largest electric utility plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 10 to 15 percent below 2005 levels during the 2010-2013 timeframe.

Chuck Oxley, a longtime Idaho newsman and former media director for the state's Democratic Party, was killed Saturday in a one-vehicle crash near Blackfoot, Idaho State Police said.

With his new budget proposals that include slashing 6 percent out of higher education, inexplicably the governor of this state is cutting women off at the knees, creating obstacles to the primary tool they have of creating a better life for their children - education.

Lewis-Clark State College administrators say they will continue with travel and Operating Expenses budget cuts and use some reserves to help offset the 6 percent budget holdback to higher education budgets for this fiscal year order by Idaho Gov.