IDOG

Magaly Rodriguez lives in Minnesota and occasionally travels to the University of Idaho to serve as an independent consultant and “Chief Inspiration Officer.”

The UI pays her $12,500 a month for her services, according to public records obtained by the Daily News.

Rodriguez is held on retainer by the UI, on a nine-month appointment that expires in June. The contract totals $112,500 and was signed during the same academic year that state holdbacks forced the UI to cut about $3.8 million from its budget.

From the Moscow-Pullman Daily News

Among its other tasks, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare inspects the state’s nursing homes, hospitals and other entities on behalf of the federal government.

Since 2006, Health and Welfare has posted its inspection reports on its Web site for public review. But those postings have stopped after the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services warned Idaho it was violating federal law.

From the Times-News

The Republican Party’s libertarian wing is criticizing the conviction of a Mountain Home GOP official who defied a police order to stay away from Idaho Gov. Butch Otter’s office.

“Idahoans for Liberty,” a group including organizers of recent Tea Party events and backers of Texas Rep. Ron Paul, marched from the sentencing hearing Monday to Otter’s office.

From the Idaho Statesman

The Times-News has challenged the closure of hearings and the sealing of documents in the murder case against Fortino Leon of Jerome.

From the Times-News