Archive of Idaho on Wednesday July 01, 2009
ID: Funding loss would force layoffs, ISP tells legislators
By Betsy Z. Russell, Spokesman-Review (Spokane)
If the Idaho State Police has to absorb the loss of all its gas tax funding a year from today, it won't have anyone left to patrol the state's roads, police officials told lawmakers Tuesday.
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ID: Idaho seizes Iraqi dinars in investment scheme case
By Becky Kramer, Spokesman-Review (Spokane)
The state of Idaho has seized about $1 million worth of Iraqi dinars purchased in a Coeur d'Alene man's investment scheme.
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Financial crisis torments states
By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
(Updated 11:29 a.m. EDT, July 1, 2009)
California may begin issuing IOUs this week because of the state’s unresolved budget crisis. But government disruptions were averted at least temporarily in five other states that missed a July 1 deadline for closing billion-dollar budget gaps.
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ID: New open meeting law takes effect
By The Associated Press, The Idaho Statesman (Boise)
Idaho has a new set of rules to ensure government officials do their business in public.
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US: Colorado the least obese state
By Lauren Neergaard, The Associated Press, The Denver Post
WASHINGTON—Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers.
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US: Some hard-hit states get less stimulus
By Louise Radnofsky, The Wall Street Journal
Some of the states worst hit by the recession are getting far less federal economic-stimulus money per person than states faring better.
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