Boise Briefing: Music Canceled; First Veto; Ola Schoolhouse

Today's Boise Briefing has some bad news for Boise music lovers-the local Music Festival has been called off for yet another year. State lawmakers continue to slash the budget at our local university and the Governor has used his veto power for the first time this session. A historic schoolhouse is undergoing renovations to open next fall while inmates housed outside Boise are receiving the vaccination.

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1. Music lovers in Boise will need to wait yet another year as organizers announced the cancelation of the Boise Music Festival for a second year. The bad news as passed on to listeners on 103.5 KISS-FM website and reported by Idaho News. Organizers say the festival will return June 25, 2022.

2. Lawmakers have proposed slashing $409,000 of the Boise State University budget according to campusreform.org. The cuts come after a July 19 letter from lawmakers to the university stated the university, "drive to create a diversified and inclusive culture becomes divisive and exclusionary because it separates and segregates students.”

3. Idaho Governor Brad Little used the veto stamp for the first time this session, refusing to sign a bill involving the respsonsibilities of the chairman of the Idaho Tax Commission as reported by KXLY-TV.

“The legislation adds a burdensome level of bureaucracy and uncertainty, which I fear will only complicate and slow the Tax Commission’s ability to accomplish its important mission,” Little wrote in his veto letter.

4. Just two hours outside of Boise, the state's "oldest two-room schoolhouse" located in Ola, Idaho is undergoing a renovation according to reporter Nic Streng of IdEdNews.org. The 18 elementary students hope to be back in the school next fall after a local group raised $355,000 to repair the 1910 local fixture.

5. While certain Boise residents wait for the COVI-19 vaccine, 600 inmates housed in correctional facilities, including those just outside Boise, have now received the vaccine according to KTVB-TV. Inmates are provided the choice to receive the vaccine and as more receive the shot, more activities, included visitation, will be allowed.

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