Animals: Kinship and killing, witness the wolf
Idaho’s GOP Gov. Butch Otter, flush with withdrawal of federal protection from wolves, has just signed legislation creating a gray wolf “disaster emergency” in his state. Why the visceral hatred for...
View ArticleJudge tosses out Idaho ban on same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriages could begin Friday morning in Idaho, one of America’s most conservative states, after a federal judge threw out the state’s law that bans marriages between persons of the same...
View ArticleJudge rebuffs Idaho governor: Same-sex marriages begin Friday
A federal judge has rebuffed Idaho Gov. Butch Otter’s request for an emergency stay of her ruling that Idaho’s ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional, clearing the way for couples to tie the...
View ArticleAppeals court blocks gay marriage in Idaho — for the moment
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked — for now — same-sex marriages in Idaho, which had been set to begin Friday morning after a federal judge threw out the Gem State’s constitutional...
View ArticleFringe candidates make Idaho Republican debate go viral
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter sought to spread the playing field on Wednesday, insisting that two bearded perennial candidates join a televised debate between the incumbent governor and his serious Republican...
View ArticleWhat 2014 elections say about 2016 governor’s race
The 2014 elections have turned into a life-threatening event for America’s incumbent governors, with voters in a firing mood that may claim bipartisan victims from Republican Tom Corbett in...
View Article‘Wide stance’ defense costs Idaho’s ex-Sen. Craig $242,000
U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, was arrested in 2007 on suspicion of lewd conduct in an undercover police sting in a men’s room at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The senator initially...
View ArticleU.S. appeals court throws out Idaho’s 20-week, no-exceptions abortion ban
The stringent Idaho law banning abortions after 20 weeks was overturned Friday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the court ruling it “unconstitutional because it categorically bans some...
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