Citizen activists and conservative politicians have longed for less regulatory burdens on businesses and citizens.

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The U.S. Regulatory Commission has fined Idaho State University after the school lost plutonium 239, which is used to develop nuclear weapons. From CNN:

University Officials say the sample, missing since 2003, does not pose a direct health issue or risk...

Last week Idaho’s Governor Butch Otter allowed a substantive change to the state’s self-defense law to take effect, albeit without his own signature, reports the Idaho Spokesman-Review and other sources. Although Senate Bill 1313 (embedded below) mostly just summarized in statute form Idaho’s already existing self-defense law, one provision, in particular,...