House tax relief plan stalls on surplus funds
Idaho House tax writers approved almost 12 million dollars in tax relief and directed any extra money to pre pay endowment debt. A bloc blocked using 6 million to cut the eight mill county school levy to four mills and set aside remaining surplus for parks debt prepayment. Gov Andrus backs road improvement using 4.2 million of the surplus while a permanent 15 dollar grocery credit faces passage to reduce ongoing revenue.
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Richard Charnock Boise
UPI
House
Walter Little
New Plymouth
GOP
Cecil D. Andrus
House Revenue and Taxation Committee
Appropriations Committee
Tradi
Posse Arrest Sparks Scuffle at Kootenai County Courthouse
Leonard Brabham of Bonner County faces an $80 000 claim after a scuffle on the courthouse stairs during a attempted citizen arrest of Post Falls officer Roger A. Davis. Deputy Harry Button said about 35 to 40 people blocked access and no arrest occurred. Brabham had been arrested Jan 27 at a Husky Truck Stop on old Highway 10.
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Malcolm Hall
Kootenai County
Bonner County
Harry Button
Brabham
Davis
Button
Posse Comitatus
Post Falls
Coeur d’Alene
Jailbreak Suspect Receives Withheld Term in Idaho Case
One of three men charged in a July 22 armed jailbreak received a two and a half year withheld sentence and probation after a preliminary hearing. Steven Staskiewecz aka Steven Alexander, 23, of North Hollywood, pled Guilty to attempting to assist in a jailbreak, with other charges dismissed following a polygraph.
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Lucinda Weiss
Steven Staskiewecz
Steven Alexander
North Hollywood
Calif
Staskiewecz
Portland
Acn
Bonner County
Rocky Eveland
William Are
Are
West Virginia
Idaho State Penitentiary
California
Clark Fork
Appeal Sought On Mine Rule By Margaret Bailey
The Idaho State Land Board urged the attorney general to appeal a federal court ruling that dredge mining under Idaho’s Mining Act does not apply to unpatented claims on federal land. The decision could affect state regulation of mining near the Idaho Montana border.
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Margaret Bailey Boise
UPI
State Land Board Today
Idaho
Wayne Kidwell
First District
James Towles
St. Joe
Montana
St. Joe River
Montana-Idaho
The
Land Board
Sunshine Mining Co
Ethyl Corp
Sunshine Colny
Gordon Trombley
Land Department
Sunshine
Forestry and Fire
Jack Gillette
Forest Practices Advisory Committee
Pickup linked to Kellogg slaying recovered in Missoula
James Ailshire, 49, of Post Falls, was found stabbed to death near Kellogg. His 1968 pickup, last seen with him at a Post Falls cafe, was found in Missoula and returned to Kellogg. authorities say he was stabbed in the neck and chest and likely thrown from a moving vehicle on I 90.
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Kellogg
Idaho
Ailshire
Sheriff’s Office
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Colburn
Don Higgenson
State Department of Parks and Recreation
Sparks
Gillette
Dorothy Mandiloff
State League of Women Voters
Andrus
Pete T. Cenarrusa
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