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YOUR HEALTH IDAHO
April 15 the deadline for Your Health Idaho
(Information in the following story is from: Idaho Statesman, http://www.idahostatesman.com)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idahoans who started the process of signing up for health insurance but couldn't finish before the March 31 deadline have a little more time.
Your Health Idaho officials say April 15 is the final day to sign up.
Communications Director Jody Olson tells the Idaho Statesman that those still working on their applications need to be persistent.
CLUB TAXES
Exclusive club owes $1.4M in taxes
(Information in the following story is from: Bonner County (Idaho) Daily Bee, http://www.bonnercountydailybee.com)
SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) — Officials say developers of an exclusive club in Bonner County owe $1.4 million in unpaid taxes.
Bonner County Treasurer Cheryl Piehl says the developers of the Idaho Club have until May 21 to settle their tax debts or face an auction.
Piehl tells the Bonner County Daily Bee that the taxes owed by Pend Oreille (pahn-du-RAY') Bonner Development date from 2008-2010.
If the developers can't come up with the unpaid tax revenue before the deadline, the county has 14 months to set a hearing to auction off the Jack Nicklaus-signature golf course and nearly 200 undeveloped parcels.
The president of the development's homeowners association could not be immediately reached for comment.
TEACHER SUPPORT
Some 200 attend eastern Idaho teacher hearing
BLACKFOOT, Idaho (AP) — The Snake River School District Board of Trustees will resume a due process hearing Monday of a longtime biology teacher.
The trustees listened to about eight hours of testimony Friday before deciding to continue the hearing on whether to renew the teaching contract of Elaine Asmus for next school year.
More than 200 people attended the hearing.
The case is highly unusual because a formal complaint was filed against Asmus by another teacher who also is the wife of the superintendent of the eastern Idaho school district.
BUJAK-FEDERAL CHARGES
Former prosecutor will represent himself in court
(Information in the following story is from: Idaho Statesman, http://www.idahostatesman.com)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A former southwest Idaho prosecutor charged with bankruptcy fraud in federal court plans to represent himself.
John Bujak told the Idaho Statesman on Thursday he knows the facts of the case better than the public defender.
On Wednesday, federal public defender Dick Rubin filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Boise to withdraw as Bujak's attorney.
Bujak in January pleaded not guilty to bankruptcy fraud, concealment of assets, making a false statement under oath, money laundering and obstruction of justice.
The U.S. attorney's office alleges Bujak did not disclose to the bankruptcy court that he and his then-wife owned a $25,000 Rolex watch and that it and a ring were sold to an out-of-state jeweler.
MORMON CONFERENCE
Mormon leader outlines opposition to gay marriage
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Mormon leader is reiterating the church's opposition to gay marriage.
Neil Andersen of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Quorum of the Twelve said Saturday during the church's biannual general conference that changing definitions of marriage by governments doesn't change the Lord's guidance.
Andersen says God defined marriage as between a man and woman and designed it not just for the personal satisfaction of adults, but to create the ideal setting for children to be nurtured.
The church's message on homosexuality has softened in recent years, but this marks the second consecutive conference in which leaders have talked about their opposition to gay marriage.
Mormon officials allowed a women's group to demonstrate on church property its displeasure for not being allowed in an all-male meeting, but still didn't let them attend.
The church told the Ordain Women group weeks ago that their members wouldn't be allowed in the meeting. They asked the group to reconsider or gather in a zone designated for protesters.
They told the group that it wouldn't be allowed on Temple Square, but they changed their minds Saturday and allowed about 500 men and women in the square.
WILD HORSES-TENSION GROWING
Tension growing between ranchers, mustang backers
RENO, Nev. (AP) —Tensions bubbled over on the range in a turf battle that has been simmering for decades over one of the icons of the American West and scant forage on arid, high desert lands from Nevada to Wyoming.
With the presence of wild horses continuing to pit animal advocates against ranchers, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which is caught in the middle, on Saturday began seizing hundreds of cattle from a longtime rancher that it says are trespassing on public land in southern Nevada.
The action came a day after the agency agreed to remove horses from the range in southwest Utah after Iron County commissioners threatened to take matters in their own hands.
Wild-horse protection advocates say the government is rounding up too many mustangs while allowing livestock to feed at taxpayer expense on the same rangeland scientists say is being overgrazed.
Ranchers say the government refuses to gather enough horses in the herds that double in size every five years while moving to confiscate cattle on lands where their ancestors have operated for more than a century.
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