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Investment bank to open capital to mid-sized companies (access required)

By Brad Iverson-Long

Headwaters MB, a merchant bank based in Denver, has opened a Boise office. Managing director Jerry Sturgill hopes the new office can help mid-sized companies looking for capital or help with mergers and acquisitions. The bank, which has its own private equity fund and offers investment banking services, is a new resource for capital, which [...]

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Laura Woodworth-Ney is ISU’s new provost and VP for academic affairs

Laura Woodworth-Ney has been promoted from associate vice president for academic affairs at Idaho State University to provost and vice president for academic affairs, effective June 24. She was appointed after a nationwide search. Woodworth-Ney fills the position vacated by Barbara Adamcik, who was interim provost and vice president for academic affairs since June 2010. [...]

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Government agencies ask everyone to help prevent wildfires this summer (access required)

By Cady McGovern

With scant precipitation, ongoing drought and higher-than-normal temperatures predicted for the summer, the spark from a chainsaw, a welding torch or a dragging trailer chain could result in disaster, not just for Idaho wildlands, but also for businesses and individuals found liable. Putting out fires is expensive, said Jessica Gardetto, public affairs specialist with the [...]

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Last Planner is a handy tool for Lean interior design

By Crystal Arreola

“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer – that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” – [...]

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Government agencies ask everyone to help prevent wildfires this summer (access required)

With scant precipitation, ongoing drought and higher-than-normal temperatures predicted for the summer, the spark from a chainsaw, a welding torch or a dragging trailer [...]

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State council settles on first round of IGEM grants (access required)

Seven Idaho university research projects will share more than $800,000 in state grants that are the first of their kind under the Idaho Global [...]

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Investment bank to open capital to mid-sized companies (access required)

Headwaters MB, a merchant bank based in Denver, has opened a Boise office. Managing director Jerry Sturgill hopes the new office can help mid-sized [...]

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Home health care industry faces leaner growth (access required)

If the growth of the senior citizen population is any indication, the home health care industry should be poised for success. There are more [...]

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State council settles on first round of IGEM grants (access required)

Seven Idaho university research projects will share more than $800,000 in state grants that are the first of their kind under the Idaho Global [...]

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The Price Was Right (access required)

The Price Was Right is a weekly feature that compares homes sold during the previous month within a particular price range. We’ll look at Ada [...]

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Idaho spud giant bets on biotech potatoes

A dozen years after a customer revolt forced Monsanto to ditch its genetically engineered potato, an Idaho company aims to resurrect high-tech spuds. This month, [...]

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Amid transitions, CradlePoint is growing (access required)

Boise tech company CradlePoint, which makes networking routers and software, is adding 50 employees and new production space in Boise this year as the [...]

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By Kevin Learned

Last month, the Idaho Business Review published an opinion piece by my friend, Marc Johnson, about the Greater Boise Auditorium District. With the upcoming election for seats on the district board, and with a renewed focus on the potential use of the district’s cash reserves and ongoing resources, it’s a good time to be talking [...]


By Barry Rosen and Charles Bacharach

The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced last year that Delano Regional Medical Center, an acute-care hospital in California’s San Joaquin Valley, agreed to pay $975,000 to settle a class action national origin discrimination lawsuit brought on behalf of a class of approximately 70 Filipino-American hospital workers. The employees alleged that the hospital’s English-only rule [...]


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