Former industrial sales rep opens Twig’s Cellar
POSTED: Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 07:14 AM PTBY: Gaye Bunderson
Tags: New Business, Twig Munro, Twig's Cellar
When Twig Munro decided she wanted to own a restaurant, she did her homework. In fact, she studied every tome she could get her hands on that would instruct her in opening a noshery.
“I read every book the Boise Public Library had on operating a restaurant,” Munro said. Now, she’s the proprietor of Twig’s Cellar, [...]
ISU’s Feit given award from counseling association
POSTED: Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 07:07 AM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: Idaho Counseling Association, Idaho State University, Stephen Feit
Idaho State University interim dean of the Kasiska College of Health Professions Stephen Feit has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Idaho Counseling Association for 2010.
Feit is also a professor of counseling and former chair of the ISU counseling department.
He graduated from the University of New Hampshire, with a degree in sociology. Feit [...]
HP Boise employees reach out to small businesses 
POSTED: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 11:41 AM PTBY: Brad Carlson
Tags: Ben Quintana, Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce, Cece Gassner, City of Boise, Hewlett-Packard, small business
A new tool in the small-business toolbox will be available soon in the Boise area, brought to you in part by employees of Hewlett-Packard Co. in Boise. The City of Boise and the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce are on board with the effort, known as the HP Business Advocate Program.
Participants view it as a [...]
Boise company busy buying, turning around, businesses
POSTED: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 11:25 AM PTBY: Brad Carlson
Tags: Brigham Young University, financing, Harvard University, HB Ventures, Hewlett-Packard
HB Ventures, a year-old Boise business that buys other businesses and turns them around, sees the tough economy from all sides.
The HB Ventures portfolio comprises two acquired Huntington Learning Centers locations in Boise, one in Eagle, and one in Draper, Utah; a recently launched Huntington Supplemental Education Services franchise serving Idaho and Utah; HB Ventures [...]
House panel agrees to full hearing for Internet sales tax measure
POSTED: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 11:16 AM PTBY: Simon Shifrin
Tags: Idaho Legislature, Streamlined Sales Tax Project
A House committee voted narrowly to consider a bill that would let Idaho officials participate in talks with two dozen other states about collecting sales taxes on Internet purchases.
The House Revenue and Taxation Committee agreed on a 10-8 vote March 10 to schedule a full hearing for a bill that would allow an Idaho State [...]
Panhandle man gets probation for unemployment insurance fraud
POSTED: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 11:14 AM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: City of Hayden, Department of Labor, Insurance
An Idaho Panhandle construction worker has been placed on five years supervised probation for defrauding the state unemployment insurance program of over $16,000 in benefits.
Fred J. Kudrna III, 35, of Hayden, was ordered to pay back the benefits plus $3,800 in penalties and $450 in court costs, and to perform 30 days of community service, [...]
The Cliffs planned community sold to Boise for wildlife preservation
POSTED: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 11:03 AM PTBY: Dani Grigg
Tags: Arbor Hills, City of Boise, Save the Plateau, Skyline Development, The Cliffs
Foothills land slated for a 1,300-home development has been sold to the city of Boise for wildlife preservation. The land is atop a plateau southeast of Boise often referred to as Hammer Flats.
Ada County had approved plans for The Cliffs back in December 2006, but the developer had yet to break ground.
On March 9, the [...]
Exemption for businesses that invest $3M passes Senate panel
POSTED: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 10:42 AM PTBY: Simon Shifrin
Tags: Empire Lumber, Idaho Legislature, tax exemptions
A Senate committee voted unanimously to support a measure that would allow county commissioners anywhere in Idaho to offer property tax exemptions to businesses that invest at least $3 million in new manufacturing facilities.
The Senate Local Government and Taxation Committee approved the measure on March 9.
The bill represents an expansion of a law passed by [...]
OSHA cites firm following trenching fatality in Pocatello
POSTED: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 11:36 AM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: Construction, OSHA
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Boise Area Office has cited Bowman’s Inc. of Mountain Home for violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act related to unsafe working conditions in trenches, resulting in a fatality at a Pocatello worksite.
“Unprotected trenches can become deathtraps in an instant when cave-ins occur,” said [...]
Homebuilder sees sales triple in February
POSTED: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 10:58 AM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: CBH, Construction, Real Estate
Idaho homebuilder CBH Homes sold more than three times as many homes in February 2010 as it did in February 2009.
After two busy weekends with 35 and 34 homes were sold, respectively, this year’s February total hit 134, up from 43 in 2009 and 53 in 2008.
“The spring selling season has begun, traffic is up [...]
