Otter: Idaho backs Arizona in immigration lawsuit
POSTED: Monday, September 6, 2010 at 07:38 AM PTBY: Associated Press
Tags: Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter, illegal immigration
Idaho is backing Arizona’s law meant to curb illegal immigration.
Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter said Friday he’s filed a court brief backing Arizona’s appeal with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Otter says states should be able to concurrently enforce federal immigration laws, provided they don’t create new categories of aliens.
Arizona’s law would generally require officers [...]
Nampa’s Amalgamated Sugar to expand 
POSTED: Friday, September 3, 2010 at 04:12 PM PTBY: Jennifer Gonzalez
Tags: Amalgamated Sugar, City of Nampa
A two-year, $22.1 million construction project at Nampa’s Amalgamated Sugar plant has begun.
Plant Manager Kent Quinney confirmed the company has begun installation of new sugar making equipment that is expected to increase sugar extraction from sugar beets at its West Karcher Avenue location.
Amalgamated Sugar has hired 30 full-time tradesmen into the factory for construction, with [...]
Military fuel contract goes to Idaho Falls company
POSTED: Friday, September 3, 2010 at 02:37 PM PTBY: Brad Carlson
Tags: government, Military
Brad Hall & Associates, Idaho Falls, has a major new contract to supply fuel to the military and other federal agencies, a unit of the U.S. Department of Defense reported.
The company was awarded a contract worth up to $60,716,183, with economic price adjustments, through September 2013, the Defense Logistics Agency reported. The U.S. Army, Navy, [...]
Constitutional challenge impacts small hospitals
POSTED: Friday, September 3, 2010 at 10:29 AM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
Tags: City of Blackfoot, City of Emmett, Idaho Hospital Association, Saint Alphonsus
Walter Knox Memorial Hospital, Walter Knox Memorial Hospital administrator Max Long needs to lease an updated CT scanner for $750,000.
Long said he’d rather not wait for voters’ permission to do it.
Walter Knox, a public hospital in Emmett, falls under a 2006 Idaho Supreme Court decision that public entities cannot borrow money or enter [...]
Permits revoked for oversized shipments through Idaho
POSTED: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at 11:15 AM PTBY: Associated Press
Tags: ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, Highway 12, Idaho Transportation Department
LEWISTON - A judge on Aug. 24 revoked special permits allowing a company to truck four oversized loads of oil refinery equipment through a federally protected river corridor, saying the state failed to address public concerns.
Second District Judge John Bradbury ordered the Idaho Transportation Department to review the request from ConocoPhillips again and to take [...]
Nampa cheese maker reaches settlement
POSTED: Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 12:20 PM PTBY: Brad Carlson
Tags: City of Nampa, Environmental Protection Agency, Sorrento Lactalis
Sorrento Lactalis Inc. paid $315,000 to settle with the U.S. government, and voluntarily invested more than $100,000 on facility improvements, in response to effluent discharge and monitoring problems at its cheese factory in Nampa.
The discharges happened at a post-production wastewater treatment plant that was built in 2005 and is separate from the manufacturing plant.
General Counsel [...]
Sugar supply less certain following beet-seed ruling
POSTED: Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 09:02 AM PTBY: Brad Carlson
Tags: Agriculture, Amalgamated Sugar, beets
In the Dry Lake area south of Nampa, Paul Rasgorshek of Rasgorshek Farms is growing 310 acres of sugar beets for harvest in mid-October. He also is preparing some ground, where wheat was just harvested, to receive part of next year’s beet crop.
“I’m trying to be optimistic,” he said. For next year, “we are planning [...]
GBAD chair agrees to mediation with Boise visitors bureau
POSTED: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 09:20 AM PTBY: Simon Shifrin
Tags: Boise Convention and Visitors Bureau, Greater Boise Auditorium District
The Greater Boise Auditorium District’s board chairman says he’d sit down with leaders of the Boise Convention and Visitors Bureau under the guidance of a professional mediator, though he doesn’t really see the point.
After a meeting called by Boise Mayor Dave Bieter on Aug. 12, Mike Wilson agreed to hash out the dispute in the [...]
Judge orders fine for Seattle mortgage broker
POSTED: Monday, August 16, 2010 at 05:05 PM PTBY: Associated Press
Tags: Financial Services, Idaho Department of Finance, mortgages
An Idaho judge has ordered a Seattle-based mortgage broker to pay more than $1 million in penalties and restitution for fraud and violations in state laws.
A judge in Ada County ruled that Access Mortgage engaged in numerous violations, including submitting a false mortgage loan application to a lender.
Other violations include ignoring a Department of Finance [...]
Former employee charged in forgery case
POSTED: Monday, August 16, 2010 at 10:56 AM PTBY: Associated Press
Tags: Courts
A Texas woman has been charged with stealing about $125,000 from an Ada County business during a period that lasted more than a year.
Aimee Scarisbrick, 41, is facing 24 counts of felony forgery and one count of grand theft. She is scheduled to make an appearance in Fourth District Court Aug. 16.
Scarisbrick was hired about [...]
