Andrus Signs Gas Tax Increase and Tax Relief Plan
Idaho Governor Cecil D. Andrus signed bills to use general fund surplus to cut eight mills to four for school property taxes, providing 6.8 million in relief. He also enacted a one cent per gallon gasoline tax increase and a graduated vehicle registration fee proposal to fund highway needs.
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Boise
API
Idaho
Cecil D. Andrus
Andrus
House Transportation Committee
Senate
Church To Open Campaign Wednesday
Senator Frank Church of Idaho travels by chartered jet from Dulles to Boise to announce his presidential campaign. The plan includes refueling in Denver and a Boise stop before returning to Washington and continuing later by commercial flights to Oregon and California for campaign events.
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Washington
UPI
Frank Church
Idaho
Dulles
Carl Burke
National Campaign Committee
Denver
Boise
Church
Oregon
California
Idaho City
House OKs Sunshine Act tweaks to tighten lobbying disclosure
The Idaho House approved three Senate bills to modify the Sunshine Act for lobbyists and candidates. Bills move to the governor and tighten filings by striking individual for person and require multi issue lobbyists to post a $10 notice with each representation.
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Boise
House
Senate
Campaign
Idaho Senate expands Human Rights Commission to ten members
The Idaho Senate approved increasing the Idaho Human Rights Commission from four to ten members and granting power to award damages and issue orders. The 24 to 10 vote sends the bill to the House. Supporters say it keeps federal overreach out and provides a state referral agency. opponents warn it makes the commission prosecutor and judge with broad, unchecked powers.
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Phil Batt
Wilder
Batt
Equal Opportunity Commission
Seattle
James Risch
Boise
Commission
Blue Mountain Mobile Expands with Sandpoint Branch
Libby Montana company opens two way message service and dispatch center in Sandpoint with Tim Metcalf explaining operation to Chamber of Commerce. Barbara Remmers notes service covers large Idaho area from Canadian border to Spokane and Newport with transmitters near Schweitzer Basin. Perkins operating 24 7 offers mobile radio calls and paging device options with monthly 18 dollar fee and equipment rental or purchase.
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Alma Perkins
Sandpoint
Blue Mountain
Bee
Libby
Mont
Tim Metcalf
Chamber of ‘Commerce
Elk’s Club
Chamber
Barbara Remmers
Remmers
Blue
Wits
Noxon Mont
Libby, Mont
Coeur
d’Alerie
Post’ Falls
Spokane
Newport
Priest River
Bonners Ferry
Hope
Clark Fork
North
Idaho
Schweitzer Basin
Perkins
Rosalia
Washington
Perkin
Massive Homestead Filing Largest Since 1908 in Idaho
Big Valley Farms filed on 186,355 acres in southern Idaho under the Carey Act, the largest such filing in modern times. The land runs along the Snake River from Bliss downstream to Oregon, with an estimated water need of 3,727 cubic feet per second if granted. The filing includes 54 sections of Mountain Home AFB gunnery range land and is being reviewed by the Idaho Department of Water Resources before BLM withdrawal steps. Aaron Hill of Holbrook filed on behalf of 350 association members.
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Boise
UPI
Big Valley Farms, Inc
Idaho Desert
Snake River
Bliss
Oregon
Keith Higginson
Department of Water Resources
Norm Young
Water Resources’ Engineering Bureau
Big Bureau
Gem State Irrigation
Higginson
Young
Big Valley
Snake
Mountain Home Air Force Base
Bureau of Land Management
BLM
Aaron Hill, Holbrook
Association
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Bill Hall
Court House
Human Rights Commission
B.B.Q
Stoddard Transfer
Zenith
Farly
Sears
Scotchgard
FHA
Aracle
Lee Burnett
Alaska
Catalog Sales Office
Sears, Roebuck & Co
1St St
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