BOISE, ID — Attorney General Raúl Labrador announced the retirement of Scott Campbell as Chief Deputy Attorney General of the Energy and Natural Resources Division and the promotion of Joy Vega to lead the division. Scott Campbell has served as Division Chief since January 2023. He brought to the Office of Attorney General his extensive experience with […]
Since before President Trump took office, many of us—the Attorneys General of Nebraska, Indiana, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Wyoming—have argued against the rescheduling of marijuana as a Schedule I drug. See July 2024 Comment of Nebraska and 10 Other States. We all believe the science surrounding marijuana—which has become only more clear in […]
A lot of folks ask me what the Idaho GOP stands for. With 90 elected legislators, seven elected statewide officials, two senators, two congressmen, hundreds of precinct committeemen, thousands of volunteers, and over 600,000 Republican voters, we have a lot of healthy debate on a variety of issues. However, there is one document that defines […]
You can always tell when Trump is on the right track, as the left starts firing the propaganda cannons telling you not to believe a word he is saying. Here is Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary’s definition of Propaganda: Ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one’s cause or to damage the opposing cause: The spreading of […]
President Trump made headlines in February, 2025 when he abruptly announced that the United States would “take over the Gaza strip” and “own it”. After cleaning up the devastation, he proposed an “economic development” that would create the “riviera of the Middle East”. During the announcement Israel Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu gave President Trump credit […]
Last February there was an apparent coordinated effort to disrupt a Republican Town Hall event featuring local legislators. The guests were advised by me and the Master of Ceremonies that good behavior was expected and that people who refused to respect the rights of others would be removed from the venue. Despite the warnings, the […]
Dear Friends, Last week I traveled to Idaho Falls to recognize two detectives who’ve spent years tracking down some of the worst criminals in our state. Detective Jared Mendenhall of the Idaho Falls Police Department and Detective Korey Payne of the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office recently reached 100 combined Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) arrests. One […]
BOISE, ID – Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador urged consumer caution this holiday season when responding to solicitations from charities. International Charity Fraud Awareness Week extends through December 12th. The two biggest times of the year for charity scams and fraud are typically Christmas and any period following a natural disaster. Both appeal to the […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, the United States House of Representatives passed an effort to fix Secure Rural Schools (SRS) payment allocations. The Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025 would reauthorize the United States Forest Service’s Secure Rural Schools and Self-Determination Program (SRS) through Fiscal Year 2026 and provide lapsed payments for 2024 and 2025. This initiative […]
How big a mess? No one really knows, because those running the bureaucracy—and those supposed to cover it in the press—have shown remarkably little curiosity about what is happening inside our state government. The LUMA accounting system, for example, has been associated with serious implementation problems, including duplicated payments and delays in reconciling transactions across […]
My Quaker grandmother told me a story early in my life about “The Seed of Hate.” The theme is deeply biblical, but it appears in other religious traditions and cultures as well. For Christians, the story centers on the idea that hatred begins as a small seed in the heart and, if allowed to grow, […]
In a recent Wall Street Journal review, University of Virginia sociology professor Scott Galloway’s book Notes of Being a Man confronts a crisis that has become impossible to ignore. He writes that his female students—bright, capable, and ambitious—express growing concern about the state of young men. They describe brothers living in parents’ basements, boyfriends addicted to online pornography, and […]