Category Archives: Lead

The Idaho Press-Tribune announced 16 layoffs Wednesday, but publisher Rick Weaver said editorial staff has not been cut.
“Business is just bad,” Weaver said. “If the economy was better we wouldn’t be doing it.”
The Canyon County paper posted a story Wednesday afternoon announcing the layoffs.
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The city and the Governor’s Office are in the midst of a parking spat, with city parking officials irked that Otter’s security Suburban regularly parks on the sidewalk outside of the Borah Building. Continue reading →

Initial analysis of last night’s primary shows some mixed results. Hot races in the unsettled territory between West Boise and Oregon, or at least from Boise to Caldwell, ended up all over the map. Moyle drew out his rural base in north Boise Valley but Boise businessman Chuck Winder also landed the Senate seat there. In Meridian proper, McKague held on, but west of there, in Wilder country, former bureaucrat Takasugi managed to defeat the red-baiting rhetoric of Otter appointee Bowers.

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Eight Idaho counties will use new balloting systems on Tuesday, including Idaho’s most populous county.

Elections offices in Ada, Blaine, Cassia, Latah, Lemhi, Madison and Teton counties are using brand new bubble (think SAT) or “arrow” ballots and optical scan vote counters in Tuesday’s Primary Election… Continue reading →

Curtis Bowers, the District 10 state representative that claimed in an Idaho Press Tribune column earlier this year to have infiltrated a 1992 Communist Party meeting in Berkley, recently told a small Canyon County crowd that he is against three things: liberalism, statism and post-modernism.

At the same forum Bowers’ opponent Pat Takasugi, accused the incumbent, in a video message, of being bogged down in philosophical issues. Continue reading →

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