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House panel seeks more tree cutting on public land

Sun, 02/19/2012 - 10:49pm  |  LemhiWeb

A House panel approved legislation Thursday that would lead to greater harvesting of trees on federal lands as part of a Republican-led plan to replace a recently expired program that has sent billions of dollars to rural counties over the past decade to help them operate their schools and provide other essential services.

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Obama budget includes money for timber counties

Thu, 02/16/2012 - 1:01am  |  LemhiWeb

President Barack Obama's new budget proposal includes money to get timber counties in Oregon and across the West through one more year, The Oregonian reported Monday.

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Two of Idaho's new legislative districts are bigger than nine states

Tue, 02/07/2012 - 1:01am  |  LemhiWeb

New legislative Districts 7 and 8 are each bigger than NINE states (MD, HI, MA, VT, NH, NJ, CT, DE, RI).  

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ACTIVISTS BENEFIT FROM EAJA

Mon, 02/06/2012 - 5:30pm  |  LemhiWeb
Moves to halt abuse of the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) were introduced last May in the form of legislation proposed by Senators John Barrasso of Wyoming and Orin Hatch of Utah. Figures released at the time the reform legislation was introduced in May of 2011 cited over 1200 suits filed against the government by environmental activists at a cost to the taxpayer of more than $35 million.
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House Repeals Flawed Obama Health Care Law Provision

Mon, 02/06/2012 - 5:13pm  |  LemhiWeb
The CLASS program, a new entitlement program for long-term care insurance, was instituted as a part of President Obama’s health care bill, but has since been deemed by the Administration to be an unsustainable program which cannot be implemented.

Keystone Pipeline: new legislation

Mon, 02/06/2012 - 5:10pm  |  LemhiWeb

Effects of the Obama Administration’s announced decision in January to deny TransCanada Corp. a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline for the purpose of delivering Canadian oil sands crude to the U.S. Gulf Coast are still reverberating. Idaho Senator Mike Crapo supports the proposed project and feels a way should be found around the administration’s controlling decision.

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Bike/Pedestrian/PublicTransportation comments sought

Mon, 02/06/2012 - 5:03pm  |  LemhiWeb
ALL PEOPLE INTERESTED IN BIKE/PED PATHS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, PLEASE GO TO

New Redistricting Plan Cuts County Splits to Seven

Mon, 02/06/2012 - 1:01am  |  LemhiWeb
Idaho's Redistricting Commission passed, by unanimous vote January 27, a new way to slice up Idaho's legislative districts, after seeing its last plan shot down by the Idaho Supreme Court for crossing over too many of the Gem State's county lines.
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