" In response to national interest in child care program integrity, the Department of Health and Welfare has been working closely with Gov. Brad Little to take additional steps to conduct heightened reviews of child care subsidies that were previously disbursed. The department has been actively redirecting staff since late December to scale up resources to continue to support these reviews and necessary actions, including provider termination when appropriate.  The department

Thank you to Eye on Elections for making me aware of this. Apparently, "ID-34-433 (aka HB 339), allows for mass data collection on Idaho voters, and also allows the SOS to arbitrarily share this data with any "states or groups of states" or private NGOs that he choses to, as long as it is intended for "voter integrity." This statute is a blank check to collect and share voter Data, and could be used as a basis for digital ID. But the SOS is using the code as an excuse to NOT

Hayden - I made a spreadsheet of all the license daycares in 83835 (Hayden), using the Transparent Idaho webpage and the Idaho Child Care Check webpage. According to the records from 2020 to 2024 - $2,859,332.28 in Trustee and Benefit Payments from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare were paid out. Out of the 30 daycares, 19 of them did not take any taxpayer money from 2020 to 2024. (63%) These totals do not include the CDA School District. I have emailed the Idaho Dep

CDA - Using the Transparent Idaho webpage and the Idaho Child Care Check webpage - I made a spreadsheet of all the licensed daycares in 83814 (Coeur d'Alene). According to the records form 2020 to 2024 - $16,261,308.04 in Trustee and Benefit Payments from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare were paid out. That is an average of $3.2 million per year. Out of the 38 daycares, 22 of then did not take any taxpayer money from 2020 to 2024. (57%) These totals do not include t

Using the Transparent Idaho webpage and the Idaho Child Care Program webpage - I made a spreadsheet of all the licensed daycares in 83854 (Post Falls). According to the records from 2020 to 2024 - $27,841,865.08 in Trustee and Benefit Payments from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare were paid out. That is an average of $5.5 million a year. Out of the 79 daycares, 41 of them did not take any taxpayer money from 2020 to 2024. (51%) I have emailed the Idaho Department of

Interviewing of candidates to take the city council seat vacated by Dan Gookin. Gookin will be sworn in as Mayor this week.

"The Idaho Child Care Program (ICCP)provides assistance to low income families to help pay child care costs. The purpose of the program is to support families working toward or maintaining employment." Is this the proper role of government? On one hand I agree that helping low income people get employment is a good thing. On the other hand it looks like the government is subsidizing private industry. What are your thoughts on this?

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I attended the 11/24/25 hearing regarding the KCRCC Town Hall were a disruptive woman was removed and the security guards involved were charged with misdeamoners. All of the charges have been dismissed against all the security guards with one exception. There were 4 lawyers representing various defendants, and one attorney representing the city of CDA. Here is a summary of notes/observations from that day. The courtroom the hearing was held in was small. It was packed with lo

Wow, Hayden City Councilman Roetter didn't want to abide by the set time for public comment. Quite a bit of what he said was half truths or inaccurate. Then Roetter goes on to be rude in public to Councilwoman White yet again. No attempt to resolve the issue with the quorum privately from what I can tell. Eight minutes into the video there is a discussion about hiring a consultant to figure out how Hayden can have its own police force in the future. Why is a consultant needed

Around Nov 20th there were a series of posts by an X account for Danielle Van Noy. https://x.com/Danielle_VanNoy/status/1991456503795163618 A few days later Paul Van Noy posted a response. https://www.facebook.com/CandlelightChristianFellowship The thing that gives me pause is who was sharing it around at first. Some of the people/pages are either anonymous accounts or are pages that tend towards gossip. I suggest that you pray after reading both links. I encourage you to pra

City of Coeur d'Alene Code states that "a security agent working on behalf of a third party shall have in his/her possession, at all times while working as a security agent, a copy of the contract providing their authority on behalf of the third party." https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/coeurdaleneid/latest/coeurdalene_id/0-0-0-2113 Am I understanding that Chief White and the CDA City Council want a contract in everyone's pocket when they work security? Does any other cit

Here are the rankings of the Idaho State Senators and Representatives from District Four, using the Idaho GOP Platform. District Three is in Kootenai County and covers the city of CDA. Representative Elaine Price, Senator Ben Towes, and Representative Joe Alfieri, currently represent District Four in Boise. https://idahogop.limitedgov.org

Here are the rankings of the Idaho State Senators and Representatives from District Three, using the Idaho GOP Platform. District Three is in Kootenai County. Rep. Jordan Redman, Senator Doug O., and Representative Vito Barberi, currently represent District Three in Boise. https://idahogop.limitedgov.org