BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 14 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release on Nov. 13, 2024: Attorney General Raul Labrador and a bipartisan coalition of 46 Attorneys General called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to improve their Robocall Mitigation Database (RMD) and close what has effectively been an unmonitored loophole that bad actors exploit to access the U.S. telephone network. "Idaho citizens are no strangers to the plague of fraudulent robo-call   more

BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 14 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release on Nov. 13, 2024: Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador filed a friend-of-the-court brief today with the U.S. Supreme Court, along with 17 other states, to protect students' First Amendment free speech rights in the case of L.M. v. Town of Middleborough. A middle school student in Massachusetts wore a t-shirt to school that had the message, "There are only two genders." School officials told the s  more

BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 16 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release on Nov. 15, 2024: Attorney General Raul Labrador announced today that the Supreme Court of the United States denied an emergency petition from the Biden Administration to rule on a controversial immigration policy known as Parole-in-Place. A U.S. District Court in Texas has already found the Administration's actions illegal and halted the program. "The Supreme Court stopped the Biden Administrati  more

BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 13 -- Gov. Brad Little, R-Idaho, issued the following news release on Nov. 12, 2024: Governor Brad Little was honored to accept the Charter School Champion award today from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the leading national nonprofit organization committed to advancing the charter school movement. "I am a huge supporter of charter schools because they offer families more options for their children's education while providing taxpayers and the people of Id  more

BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 15 -- Gov. Brad Little, R-Idaho, issued the following news release on Nov. 14, 2024: Governor Brad Little returned this past weekend from a productive seven-day trade mission to Taiwan and Japan. The Idaho Department of Commerce, the Idaho State Department of Agriculture, and 22 Idaho businesses and organizations joined Governor Little for his fourth official in-person trade mission as Idaho's 33rd Governor. Taiwan is Idaho's second largest export market. In 2023, $504 mill  more

POCATELLO, Idaho, Nov. 12 -- Idaho State University issued the following news: Dr. Cory A. Bennett, Professor of Mathematics Education, and Dr. Allison Roxburgh, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, both in the Department of Teaching and Educational Studies, were lead writers on the publication of a new position paper for NCSM called Leading with Technology: Enhancing Mathematics for All Students. Bennett and Roxburgh recently presented on this paper at the NCSM annual conference. Ben  more

MOSCOW, Idaho, Nov. 13 -- The University of Idaho issued the following news release: The J.R. Simplot Family Foundation has made a significant gift to establish University of Idaho's first endowed deanship in support of the land-grant institution's broad efforts to benefit Idaho agriculture. The J.R. Simplot Endowed Dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) pays homage to the Idaho-based agribusiness company's founder, the late J.R. Simplot, and the Simplot family's legacy w  more