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Ag, other business seek new tone on immigration
Olmstead picks up the immigration football. Idaho Business Coalition for Immigration Reform gets racist flood after launch of education campaign. Spokesman Brent Olmstead: Employers want to hire a legal workforce. Prentice interviews Olmstead on Boise State Radio . Hopkins in Ag Weekly. Popkey. Coalition wants a new guest worker program (at least?).
No new money for Tamarack yet
Lawyers say talks to keep Tamarack running past March “challenging.” Just 27,000 skier visits this year; $304,000 deficit. Swiss bank attorney: “The operative part of the ski hill has proven to be more of a loss than the lender previously anticipated.” AP in IBR.
Boise $3.4 mil in the red
City of Boise facing ‘09, ‘10 shortfalls. $3.4 million in 2009 and looking like $9 million next year. Layoffs possible. Spokesman Adam Park: “In the months ahead, you probably will hear of cuts that we’re going to have to make. Dryden in the Idaho Statesman
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Obama throws agnostics a bone
Obama tips hat to nonbelievers in inaugural Paleo did not even notice, but Lloyd Lowe did in theThe Arbiter. “Obama said: “… We know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus – and non-believers.” Sorry Sikhs, Pagans, and Buddhists. Better luck [...]
State audit staff cuts will deplete tax revenues
Does cutting tax collectors cost the state more? Carlson asks the question in the IBR.
Cuts hit mental health center
Community mental health crisis center victim of budget cuts. citydesk on
Panel approves medical leave cuts
Senate panel approves administrative cuts to state worker leave. Sagness tried to stop it: “Don’t strike it. Redefine it.” Hopkins at Magicvalley.com.
Crapo backs some kinds of stimulus
Sen. Mike Crapo, who told us last week he is skeptical of federal stimulus spending, tells the Associated Press he likes fed money for nuke cleanup. Crapo in Seattle P-I: “This is exactly the kind of thing a stimulus package should be composed of.” Crapo to Hoffman in yet unpublished interview: “My belief is that [...]
ITD audit a big duh
Idaho shells out $450,000 to state the obvious: roads need more care. Senate transportation chairman John McGee: “It reiterates what the governor’s been saying for the last two years-our roads are falling apart … You pay a little bit now, or you pay a heck of a lot later.” ITD does not even know what [...]
Ill-adjusted Americans buy more guns before inauguration
Spokesman review revisits run on guns in face of Democrat administration. Gus sales at pawn shops in Washington have doubled in a year. No data for Idaho. Alison Boggs at
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