Constitutional challenge impacts small hospitals 
By Anne Wallace Allen
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 into multi-year facility or equipment contracts without local voters approval.
Adrienne Lane-Martin joins Cornerstone Design
Cornerstone Design, an interior design firm, has added Adrienne Lane-Martin to its design team. Lane-Martin brings several years of professional design experience to the position and is currently working on projects in the commercial, government and medical sectors. She is the incoming president-elect for the Intermountain Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers. She is [...]
Idaho brewers eye excise tax cut as production shows no signs of slowing
A proposal to cut in half the federal excise tax that small brewery operators pay on the beer they produce would benefit established businesses like Portneuf Valley Brewing in Pocatello and the yet-to-open Payette Brewing Co., Garden City, operators of these enterprises say. "It would be a great thing for me as a business trying to [...]
Farming profits: Why stocks in ag equipment are strong
Tractors are pulling in profits for stock investors. The dramatic growth of emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil; strong crop prices; and the potential for a U.S. economic recovery continue to boost the prices of agricultural equipment manufacturers. Such a positive outlook makes sense in a world that needs to be fed and for a [...]
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The state of Idaho and its universities are miles ahead of a recent report by the Brookings Institution that urges the rest of the nation to look to the Mountain West for clean alternative energy solutions.
It may be the most misused or perhaps the most fraudulent word in our political language – the word “moderate” that is. We hate it in our own political parties, yet ask for tolerance and respect for it in others. It doesn’t work either way.
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