The tribe is still called “Republican.” But in a very real sense, today’s GOP is — to borrow a phrase — Republican in name only.

A tour of Pioneer Elementary School in Salmon is what prompted this bill. Gov. Little and his staff, along with Representatives Furniss, Jerald Raymond, Sen. Van Burtenshaw, administrators and others toured the building in September.

During the State of the State address, Little told legislators he visited a school in Salmon — Pioneer Elementary — that had sewage leaking into a space under the school cafeteria. It’s time, Little said, to stop kicking the can down the road.

Libraries have become political battlegrounds nationwide over materials available on the shelves, particularly for teens and children. Some conservative groups have sought to have certain books either removed from libraries, moved to the adult section, or only available behind the counter.

“It’s rare that an elected official doesn’t appear there,” said Ben Ysursa, who attended around 40 such addresses while serving in the secretary of state’s office.

The question was the same for every community member interviewed : “Do you know when the Idaho caucuses are?”

Responses were consistently “I really don’t know.”

Bill gives federal lawmakers until March to broker agreement on a dozen full-year appropriations bills that were supposed to become law on Oct. 1

Members of the Idaho Legislature’s Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee took a symbolic hostage on Friday as part of the budget committee’s showdown with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare over uncorrected issues that were flagged in an audit of the department.

“We’ve all seen the pictures and videos of some Idaho schools that are neglected — crumbling, leaking, falling apart,” Little said. “In one school I visited, raw sewage is seeping into a space under the cafeteria. Folks, we can do better.”

I apprI appreciate your willingness to volunteer to be the Idaho GOP Chairwoman, but I was disappointed you chose to express your personal opinion of opposition to Article V written under your title as the Chair of the Idaho Republican Party.

The party adopted the resolutions, which are statements on policy preferences for the Legislature, earlier this month at its winter meeting. Dorothy Moon, who chairs the state Republican Party, announced the resolutions at the Idaho Capitol on Monday, the first day of the legislative session. Here are some of the most notable changes the state party is pushing for.

The rule will prevent those who the committee censure twice will be removed from the ballot for five years.

She said if this two-thirds majority requirement can’t be passed, then the party would like to see a state constitutional amendment to remove the initiative process altogether — one person in the audience gasped in response to this.

Because there is so much cross membership between the IFF and Moon’s GOP, it is not easy to determine which group has the ultimate say-so. A recent chapter in the GOP’s effort to squelch individual thinking in its ranks provides an answer.

Republicans in Idaho won't be able to cast votes for presidential candidates in next year’s presidential primary as we have in the past. Rather than the traditional means where people go to the polls on election day or cast their votes by early or absentee voting, this caucus-style election will be run by state party leaders on Saturday, March 2, meaning voters must show up in a specific location at a specific time, with specific instructions on how to vote.

Former Idaho Republican Party Chairmen Tom Luna and Trent Clark, today called for the withdrawal of a proposed rule that strips away the voting rights of hundreds of thousands of Idaho Republican voters and gives a small group of people the power to decide who they think is worthy of being on the GOP primary ballot.

Queen Moon’s cabal includes the Idaho Freedom Foundation, the Idaho Family Policy Center and others who advocate so-called Christian Nationalism to assert power over us people.

Six top members of the Ada County Republican Party, including its chairman, quit citing decisions by the state party that have made it “impossible” to effectively lead.

Canyon County Republican Women Executive Board expresses deep disappointment in the current leadership of the Idaho GOP. Rather than work to enact policies that represent the preferences of most Idaho Republicans, they worked to purge the party of those who do not share their fanatical, revisionist views.