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Idaho House kills library commission budget, Gov. Little kills IT budget as adjournment draws near

The Idaho House of Representatives was on the cusp of adjournment Thursday, when more than half of the House voted to kill the budget for the Idaho Commission on Libraries — one of the last pieces of legislation left in the queue this session.

Shortly thereafter, Gov. Brad Little vetoed Senate Bill 1400, the budget for the Office of Information Technology Services. Taken together, those two developments inject uncertainty into what was supposed to be the second-to-last day of the 2022 legislative session.

The first sign of trouble was a long debate Thursday afternoon about obscene materials and pornography in libraries. The Idaho House killed the third version of the 2023 budget for the Idaho Commission on Libraries, House Bill 824. The bill failed 33-36.

The bill included $11.2 million in total funding, including $4.5 million in state general fund spending and $6.7 million in federal funding. Legislative budget writers already cut $307,000 for ebooks that was included in the original budget bill, House Bill 784, after legislators said some of the materials in the ebooks were inappropriate and accessible to children through their school libraries.

Read more: https://idahocapitalsun.com/2022/03/24/idaho-house-kills-library-commission-budget-gov-little-kills-it-budget-as-adjournment-draws-near/

Gov. Little signs abortion ban modeled on Texas law

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho on Wednesday became the first state to enact a law modeled after a Texas statute banning abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and allowing it to be enforced through lawsuits to avoid constitutional court challenges.

Republican Gov. Brad Little signed into law the measure that allows people who would have been family members to sue a doctor who performs an abortion after cardiac activity is detected in an embryo. Still he said he had concerns about whether the law was constitutional.

“I stand in solidarity with all Idahoans who seek to protect the lives of preborn babies,” Little wrote in a letter to Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, who is also president of the Senate.

Yet he also noted: “While I support the pro-life policy in this legislation, I fear the novel civil enforcement mechanism will in short order be proven both unconstitutional and unwise."

Read more: https://www.idahopress.com/boiseweekly/news/gov-little-signs-abortion-ban-modeled-on-texas-law/article_0850d9ae-9c60-5d6d-98ef-38ecee6ccfd9.html

Man awarded $8M after being served chemicals instead of beer at Henderson bar

A jury awarded $8 million last week to a Clark County man who was served a chemical cleaning compound instead of beer at a Henderson bar and casino.

On Dec. 18, 2018, 38-year-old special education teacher Lon Enwright ingested a sample of Honey Blonde Ale that contained a “dangerous chemical cleaning solution” while watching a football came at Barley’s Casino & Brewing Company, 4500 E. Sunset Road, according to a news release from Enwright’s attorneys.

The sample of beer contained potassium hydroxide and nonylphenol polyethylene glycol ether, which are chemicals used in cleaning systems for bar taps, tanks and lines.

“After drinking the sample, Dr. Enwright experienced a sudden and intense burning in his mouth, on his tongue, and down his esophagus into his stomach,” the news release stated. “He soon began convulsing, hyperventilating, and violently vomiting before Henderson Fire Department arrived to the scene.”

Read more: https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/henderson/man-awarded-8m-after-being-served-chemicals-instead-of-beer-at-henderson-bar-2550199/

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Stephen Wilhite, inventor of the meme-favorite GIF, has died

Source: Las Vegas Sun

Stephen Wilhite, the inventor of the internet-popular short-video format, the GIF, has died. He was 74.

His wife, Kathaleen, said Thursday in a phone interview that he died of COVID on March 14.

Wilhite, who lived in Milford, Ohio, won a Webby lifetime achievement award in 2013 for inventing the GIF, which decades after its creation became omnipresent in memes and on social media, often used as a cheeky representation of a cultural moment.

Wilhite was working at CompuServe in 1987 when he invented the GIF. “I saw the format I wanted in my head and then I started programming,” he told The New York Times in 2013, saying the first image was an airplane and insisting that the file had only one pronunciation - a soft “G,” like Jif peanut butter. Those using the hard “G,” as in “got” or “given,” “are wrong,” he said. “End of story.”

Read more: https://lasvegassun.com/news/2022/mar/24/stephen-wilhite-inventor-of-the-meme-favorite-gif/

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Alex Jones again fails to show up for a deposition in the Sandy Hook case against him

Source: NPR

Infowars host Alex Jones on Thursday defied a Connecticut judge's order to show up for a deposition in Texas in a case brought by relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting who sued Jones for calling the massacre a hoax, according to the families' lawyer.

It was the second straight day that Jones did not appear for the deposition in Austin, which was scheduled to be held Wednesday and Thursday. It wasn't immediately clear what penalties he may face.

Jones' lawyer, Norman Pattis, said Thursday that Jones was following his doctor's guidance to not attend court proceedings because of undisclosed medical conditions.

"Mr. Jones was given conflicting imperatives: his physician told him to stay home; a judge told him to go to a deposition," Pattis wrote in an email to The Associated Press. "He is following his doctor's advice. I suspect most people sensible would do as Mr. Jones has done."

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/24/1088548953/alex-jones-sandy-hook-deposition-lawsuit

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