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Ag, other business seek new tone on immigration

Nathaniel Hoffman — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:39:17 +0000

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

Nathaniel Hoffman — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:28:04 +0000

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

Nathaniel Hoffman — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:49:55 +0000

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

Nathaniel Hoffman — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:49:09 +0000

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 next time.”

State audit staff cuts will deplete tax revenues

Nathaniel Hoffman — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:39:22 +0000

Does cutting tax collectors cost the state more? Carlson asks the question in the IBR.

Cuts hit mental health center

Nathaniel Hoffman — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:16:31 +0000

Community mental health crisis center victim of budget cuts. citydesk on http://www.boiseweekly.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=320091">pre-closure. 17 laid off, IDHW has a plan: “Franklin House closing is difficult for all of us, but I don’t want to paint a picture of it as a catastrophe.” Docs not so sure: “Essentially, they are going to shift a bunch of costs to the hospitals’ charity and bad-debt services.” LeMay in the Statesman
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Panel approves medical leave cuts

Nathaniel Hoffman — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:22:06 +0000

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

Nathaniel Hoffman — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:20:26 +0000

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 the notion that we can spend ourselves into prosperity is one that is not valid.” $6 billion is on the table for cleanup spending as part of stimulus package; Crapo and Sen. Jim Risch are signed on. H to the T.

ITD audit a big duh

Nathaniel Hoffman — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:11:07 +0000

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 it needs to maintain. But the study may bear fruit: JoAn Wood: “I thought it was very well done – it was exactly what we wanted. We were so concerned last year that we were not able to get the information we felt like we needed. We couldn’t justify to our public any increase where it was not clearly beneficial to the whole state.” Russell at Spokesman.com.

But Wood, who runs the House Transportation Committee, told the AP she wants to see changes in the department before it gets new funding. Read the full report here.

Ill-adjusted Americans buy more guns before inauguration

Nathaniel Hoffman — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:22:26 +0000

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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Twin Falls looks for Jesus

Nathaniel Hoffman — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:38:10 +0000

Original head preserved… ’nuff said. Poppino in the Times-News.

Beebe, Smyser, Bilbao want Little seat

Nathaniel Hoffman — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:59:58 +0000

Three District 11 Repubs want Little’s seat. Former Canyon County Commissioner Matt Beebe, party activist Melinda Smyser and Rep. Carlos Bilbao interested. Kreller, Murphy in the Idaho Statesman
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