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Senate committee chairman apologizes after improper closed meeting
March 9, 2018
An Idaho Senate committee chairman apologized Tuesday for violating Senate rules a day earlier by convening an impromptu – and likely illegal – closed meeting of his committee, over a move to force a hearing on House-passed legislation to legalize medical use of CBD oil, which is extracted from cannabis, in Idaho.
From The Spokesman-Review
Court: Idaho nuclear waste documents won’t be made public
February 8, 2018
U.S. officials don’t have to provide details about proposed shipments of extremely radioactive spent commercial nuclear fuel to the country’s top government nuclear research laboratory in Idaho, a federal court has ruled.
From the Associated Press
Former Rep. Gary Ingram, author of Idaho Open Meeting Law, dies at age 84
December 1, 2017
Former Idaho state Rep. Gary Ingram, the author of the Idaho Open Meeting Law, has died at the age of 84.
Ingram, who served in the Idaho House from 1973 to 1980, was a longtime advocate for open government in Idaho. In 2009, he was recognized with the Max Dalton Open Government Award sponsored by the Idaho Newspaper Foundation.
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Past Seminars
IDOG open government seminars draw crowds in Pocatello, Idaho Falls
November 30, 2016
