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IDAHO TAX COLLECTORS SEEK COMPUTER UPGRADE, SAY PROBLEMS FIXED

  • Betsy Russell reports:  Idaho needs to invest $5.2 million for a major computer upgrade in its tax collection system, state tax officials say, and

MICHAEL FERGUSON: STATE ISN'T MEETING CONSTITUTIONAL COMMITMENT TO SCHOOLS

  • Now that the election is over, we have an answer on the Students Come First laws. Hopefully we will see a renewed commitment to

SURPRISING RESULTS FROM THE 2012 ELECTION

  • Louis Jacobson reports:  Many of the results on Election Night fit comfortably with expectations about how voters in certain states tend to vote. But

SOME IDAHO SCHOOL DISTRICTS COULD LOSE MILLIONS AFTER VOTERS REPEAL EDUCATION LAWS

  • Adam Cotterell reports:  Idaho’s Department of Education says the repeal of the Students Come First education laws means a $23 million cut for the state’s schools. It

IDAHO LAWMAKERS PREPARE TO TALK TAXES, MEDICAID

  • Melissa Davlin reports:  This week, Magic Valley lawmakers are gearing up for the legislative session by visiting with local government officials and Chamber of Commerce members.

SCHOOL BOARD PONDERS LEVY

  • Maureen Dolan reports:  The need to ask voters to approve a supplemental levy early next year and a looming $3 million budget shortfall have

EDITORIAL: HOW TO HELP OUR TEACHERS

  • Coeur d’Alene Press editorial:  Tom Luna stepped in it again. At least, that’s what some critics claim after Idaho’s superintendent of schools called anew

EDITORIAL: IDAHO MUST RISE ABOVE ITS INSTINCTS ON MEDICAID

  • Spokesman-Review Editorial:  Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to turn the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid mandate into a voluntary matter, states have had

AMERICA’S SECRET PRO-TAX HISTORY

  • Elizabeth Pearson:  How do Americans really feel about taxes? Anti-tax groups and limited-government activists are quick to invoke a long American tradition of tax

THE THREE TAXES

  • Senator Tim Corder:  There has been interest in the question of which states tax what, and whether Idaho should do away with the income

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