JEERS: To Fremont County Prosecutor Joette Lookabaugh and to the Catastrophic Health Care Program for not firing disgraced attorney Blake Hall.

Hall, a leading figure in Idaho and national politics for 25 years, was dismissed Monday as a deputy prosecuting in Bonneville County and has resigned from the Republican National Committee. A former member of the state Board of Education, he pleaded guilty last week to stalking a former girlfriend and is serving a 15-day jail sentence. Hall also was sentenced to a year of supervised probation.

Idaho Falls police reported that witnesses said Hall disposed of used condoms on the lawn of the woman’s house. Between March and August, Hall repeatedly followed the woman to restaurants, the movies and her home, and he ignored her repeated requests that he leave her alone.

But Lookabaugh refused to dismiss Hall from his contract as a $31,000-a-year civil attorney in Fremont County, and Hall will keep his job as chairman of the CAT fund board until his contract expires at the end of the year.

“What is disturbing is the fact that often people who have devoted their lives to public service are not given the same benefits, or are treated more harshly, than the public at large,” Lookabaugh said. “There seems to be a certain amount of political glee in striking down the well-known for any real or perceived foible.”

There’s more than foibles involved in this case. Hall doesn’t belong on the public payroll for another day.

CHEERS: To Southern Idaho Solid Waste, for its plans to build methane-fueled generators at Milner Butte Landfill.

The 16-year-old dump collects trash tossed by residents of seven south-central Idaho counties.

A methane-gas collection system came online in September and is feeding data to Josh Bartlome, the environmental specialist conducting the system’s initial testing. The landfill’s methane gas currently flows at between 315 and 330 standard cubic feet per minute, more than enough to support a generator in the future.

The landfill’s new system is largely the result of federal regulations. First, it had to be lined. Then other rules had to be met, including a collection and control system for the methane gas once the site met certain criteria.

Southern Idaho Solid Waste planned ahead, installing horizontal gas wells at the site.

It’s a proactive effort to maximize the public’s resources — and keep ratepayers’ costs down.

JEERS: It’s time for the state to shut down the troubled Nampa Classical Academy.

School administrators denied the state Public Charter School Commission a public records request and visit to its southwest Idaho campus.

Commissioners on Thursday identified several areas of noncompliance with state rules for charter schools and voted to send the academy another notice of defect — the first step in a process that could result in closure.

This is the third notice the commission has issued the charter school in recent weeks, amid massive turnover within the Nampa Classical Academy Board of Directors.

“The school is not allowing us to do the job we are obligated to do,” said commissioner Gayann DeMordaunt.

The academy opened this fall, the third-largest charter school in the state. Since October, seven board members have resigned over conflicts with Michael Moffett, the only original member left on the board. Moffett’s brother is academy founder and director of operations, Isaac Moffett.

ICA is making a mockery of the state’s charter school law. It’s time to pull the plug.