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  1. Review ·

    Idaho’s Revenue Beat Is Real. The Editorial’s Story About It Definitely Slanted Opinion.

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    A review of the Coeur d'Alene Press Sunday editorial of October 11, 2026, "Idaho's strong economic numbers a welcome sight." Every figure it quotes matches the state's September revenue report. What it leaves out changes the story. The August forecast was set $291.1 million above the Legislature's estimate before the quarter was measured against it, one tax line carries the whole beat, hiring grew 0.9% while withholding grew 20%, and most of the projected $696 million surplus is last year's cash or the forecast itself. The fair reading is narrower: Idaho is growing moderately, the state cut taxes and then cut spending to stay balanced, and whether one strong quarter of withholding lasts is not known until the April 2027 filing season.

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  2. News ·

    Coeur Terre 2 Goes Back to the City Council: Reconsideration Hearing October 26

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    The City of Coeur d'Alene will hold a reconsideration hearing on Coeur Terre 2 (item S-2-26 AA) on Monday, October 26, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. in the Coeur d'Alene Public Library Community Room. Neighbor Madelyn Knutson has asked the City Council to reconsider its August 31 approval of the 202-acre subdivision. The public may testify for three minutes each on the deficiencies her request identifies.

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  3. Communications ·

    Reply to ITD: Rathdrum Prairie Area and the Draft FY2027–FY2033 ITIP

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    The No Huetter Bypass Group's reply to the Idaho Transportation Department's (ITD) September 4, 2026 answer to its comments on the Draft FY2027–FY2033 Idaho Transportation Investment Program (ITIP). It asks ITD to analyze the Rathdrum Prairie road network as one system, with state and local projects, signals and costs on one table, before any new alignment advances, and to reconcile and explain the Key Number 24395 interchange row and the Key Number 23349 study funding.

    Continue reading: Reply to ITD: Rathdrum Prairie Area and the Draft FY2027–FY2033 ITIP

  4. Communications ·

    Response to the ITD District 1 Letter of September 4, 2026

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    The No Huetter Bypass Group's reply to the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) District 1 letter of September 4, 2026 on the Rathdrum Prairie PEL Study (Key Number 23349). It answers ITD's letter section by section, documents the record gaps that remain, and asks for a bounded public re-screen of lower-taking packages on existing corridors and publication of the screening data before any PEL product moves into NEPA.

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  5. Review ·

    Coeur Terre Phase 2: Traffic Impact Analysis Review

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    Coeur Terre Phase 2 is a 202-acre subdivision of up to 506 homes and a public elementary school site on Huetter Road in Coeur d'Alene. This community technical review of the CivTech Traffic Impact Analysis (Project No. 25-0340, 2nd submittal, April 2026) found six errors, each tied to a page of the study. The one that matters most: the 2035 result at Huetter and Mullan depends on median storage that no document says anyone will build.

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  6. Communications ·

    ITD Response to the Rathdrum Prairie PEL Level 3 Response

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    The Idaho Transportation Department's (ITD) reply to the No Huetter Bypass Group's Rathdrum Prairie PEL Level 3 Response. ITD District 1 answers each section of the letter, points to the Level 3 public meeting materials for cost, right-of-way and traffic data, and directs requests for other records to ITD's public records process.

    Continue reading: ITD Response to the Rathdrum Prairie PEL Level 3 Response

  7. Communications ·

    ITD Response to Draft ITIP Comments on the Rathdrum Prairie Area Transportation Study

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    The Idaho Transportation Department's (ITD) reply to comments on the Draft Idaho Transportation Investment Program (ITIP) for fiscal years 2027-2033. ITD defends the I-90 widening and the Rathdrum Prairie Area Transportation Study (KN 23349), confirms that the I-90/US-95 Interchange reconstruction (KN 24395) has been moved to Unfunded, and answers each of the six requested actions.

    Continue reading: ITD Response to Draft ITIP Comments on the Rathdrum Prairie Area Transportation Study

  9. Communications ·

    Letter to Idaho State Legislators: Urgent Oversight Request on the Rathdrum Prairie PEL Study

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    The No Huetter Bypass Group's letter to the nine Idaho state legislators for Kootenai County (Districts 3, 4 and 5) on deficient road planning, budgeting and community engagement by ITD District 1 and KMPO on the Rathdrum Prairie PEL study, asking them to tell ITD and KMPO to keep the alternatives on US-95 and existing corridors, not to recommend Alternative H for NEPA, and to stop taking land for "future use."

    Continue reading: Letter to Idaho State Legislators: Urgent Oversight Request on the Rathdrum Prairie PEL Study

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