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It’s Friday, which means it's time for our Reporter Roundtable when Idaho Matters gets you up to date on all the news that made headlines this past week.

Rep. Wendy Horman (R-Idaho Falls) announced her resignation Friday and will soon serve as the Director of the Office of Child Care in the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C.

Idaho’s legislative budget writers are facing significant increases in routine expenses as they prepare for the upcoming session beginning in January.

Idaho’s legislative budget committee is digging into nearly 20 years of the state’s past budgets to better weed out unessential expenses.

One of Idaho’s top budgeters cheered the state’s newest fiscal report showing a balanced budget despite a $95 million dollar dip in projected revenue.

Raises for state employees are up in the air after lawmakers on the budget writing Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee deadlocked on two proposals Thursday.

The budget requests are meant to address increasing resources need to manage water in Idaho, as the population continues to grow at a fast rate.

IDL presented a budget preview with a nearly 29% – or roughly $2 million – increase from the general fund.

An education budget was approved by the Idaho legislature on Monday. It calls for a 6.1% increase over last year — just short of state school…

It took the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee less than an hour to approve the seven public school budgets, which together represent about 48 percent…