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Outsourced Idaho
Study: Idaho had largest percentage of lost jobs since 2001. 9,000 computer and electronics jobs lost in Idaho and 2.3 million total U.S. jobs lost to “trade gap” with China, according to American manufacturers. In 2007 we bought $68 billion more…
Times-News discovers new outlaw biker gang
TF reporter discovers Hells Angels. Jackson on Angels (or not): “According to media reports, Hells Angels must be white, with Harley Davidson motorcycles, and without any history of molesting children or law enforcement work.” Riding to Montana, stopped for a…
Get your funny Obama Craig buttons on
LMT editor emeritus scored 10 copies of the Obama-Craig/LaRocco buttons that he has made famous. Bill Hall: Like finding a damaged coin. Stuck to your shoe? LMT story via Statesman. Button maker is funny: “This particular designer uses a fairly wide…
More radioactive waste headed to Idaho
According to a San Francisco Guardian story, via NewWest.net, some nuke waste from SF may be slated for an Idaho dump. Hunter’s Point Shipyard hosts artists colony now found to be radiologically contaminated. SFBG: “Currently the Navy is proposing to excavate…
Risch stands by temporal tax cut
Lt. Gov. Jim Risch will air his tax cut ad again, claiming $200+ million in cuts during his tenure as gov. Does not mention his concomitant sales tax hike. Risch: “I said it then, I mean it now, and you’re…
Statesman fire series cont.
Statesman reporters Druzin and Barker continue to make a case for letting more fires burn. It’s a strong series on fire… Maybe Sunday will bring some answers: What’s the hold up in Congress on fire fighting policy? Today: how much it…
Agassi and Graf dump ‘rack hotel
Tennis stars bail on major hotel anchor for troubled Tamarack resort. Tennis duo partner Joel Goldman: “Based on the pending litigation and current market conditions, we are not at this time proceeding with the project.” Fairmont Hotel allegedly still interested, but…
T.F. developers skewed
Times-News report sends developers, consultants, city counselors scrambling. Sunday Jared Hopkins story revealed that a four-block downtown revitalization project planned to ask for $10 million in public funds to help developers. Tuesday story revealed the concomitant squirming of public officials who backed…
Fire policy not so wise
“More provocatively, the research suggests that fighting fires on public lands to protect homes is ineffective and, in the long run, counter-productive. It is also far more expensive.” $1.86 billion spent on fire suppression last year. Warren wants government to cut…
Minimum wage up Thursday
Federal minimum wage hikes go into effect Thursday, giving Idaho’s working poor a piece of bootstrap. 70 cent/hour raises go to about 42,000 Idaho workers, costing employers some $24 million per year. (Not sure exactly how that pencils out though… any…
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