Ada County Highway District increases impact fees by 66%

Ada County officials have significantly increased development impact fees to pay for transportation projects, passing an ordinance to charge developers more to build starting in 2026. One silver lining, however, is that they rejected a controversial proposal to go to a two-area fee zone. Public officials say higher transportation impact fees are needed to build out the road network to mitigate the traffic impact from growth. They estimate that out of $2.3 billion in transport

Ada County Highway District increases impact fees by 66%

Education choice setback for Montana families requires legislative action

46 states have a private workers’ compensation system: Wyoming should join them

A prescription for fraud? GAO finds serious abuses in Obamacare exchanges

Education choice setback for Montana families requires legislative action

Montana families seeking flexible education options for students with special needs received disappointing news last week when a District Court Judge blocked implementation of the state’s Education Savings Account (ESA) program. While earlier court decisions allowed the program to move forward, this latest ruling has paused ESAs entirely. The Students with Special Needs Equal Opportunity Act program, created in 2023 by House Bill 393 , was designed to give families of student

Meg Goudy

46 states have a private workers’ compensation system: Wyoming should join them

Did you know that Wyoming is only one of four states in the U.S. with a completely government-run workers’ compensation insurance system? Washington, North Dakota and Ohio are the others. North Dakota and Ohio have managed to keep their rates low. But Wyoming’s approach has led to some of the highest rates in the nation for workers’ compensation insurance. In 2020, Wyoming’s rates were the highest in the nation, falling to 7th highest in 2024. As background, workers’ compen

Marta Mossburg

A prescription for fraud? GAO finds serious abuses in Obamacare exchanges

Remember when Americans were told that the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) would lower health care costs and that if you liked your doctor, you could keep her? How things have changed over the past 15 years. Health care costs continue to rise faster than inflation and millions of Americans have discovered that their health insurance plans don’t cover their chosen physician. As the saying goes, to add insult to injury, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) r