International hay producer watches price boom from Eden 
POSTED: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 10:10 AM PTBY: Sean Olson
Tags: Agriculture, Eden, Standlee Hay Company
The sleepy town of Eden, population 405, is not the first place one might expect to find a multi-million-dollar international business. But the Jerome County city is home to the Standlee Hay Company, a family business that will ship out an estimated 290,000 tons of forage this year, putting its hay revenues at between $58 [...]
Jimmy John’s construction stalled by find
POSTED: Monday, May 21, 2012 at 05:16 PM PTBY: Brad Carlson
Work on a stand-alone building for Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches recently started, then stopped, at Vista Avenue and Overland Road in south central Boise. Jimmy John’s franchisee Dean Hodges’ company razed a former gas station on a different part of the site last winter. Excavation for the 1,800-square-foot building began in early May. Crews started [...]
State could strengthen role in Idaho National lab
POSTED: Monday, May 21, 2012 at 04:25 PM PTBY: The Associated Press
The head of Idaho National Laboratory is reaching out to top Idaho leaders in an effort to strengthen the relationship between Idaho and the sprawling research facility in the eastern Idaho desert. INL Director John Grossenbacher said he’s even approached Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter about the state taking an unprecedented ownership stake in the complex, [...]
Idaho, 21 other states join campaign finance fight
POSTED: Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 12:59 PM PTBY: The Associated Press
Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending. The states led by New York are asking the high court to preserve Montana’s state-level regulations on corporate political expenditures, [...]
N. Idaho officials balk at herbicides to battle milfoil near public beaches
POSTED: Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 12:41 PM PTBY: The Associated Press
City officials in Sandpoint in northern Idaho are declining an offer from the Idaho Department of Agriculture to apply herbicide in Lake Pend Oreille near city beaches to eradicate Eurasian milfoil. The Bonner County Daily Bee reports that city council members decided that, even though the plan wouldn’t cost the city, putting herbicides in the [...]
Cassia Regional Technology Center duo heads to Ford HQ for competition
POSTED: Friday, May 18, 2012 at 02:19 PM PTBY: Blair Koch
A pair of graduating high school seniors from southern Idaho is headed to Michigan in June for a national auto skills competition that has already won them thousands of dollars in scholarships. Taylor Grisham and Slade Beck, both 18, won the May 4 Idaho state Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills competition in Boise. They earned a [...]
Idaho unemployment drops despite lag in business services
POSTED: Friday, May 18, 2012 at 01:11 PM PTBY: Brad Carlson
Tags: Business Services, Employment
Idaho unemployment dropped for the ninth consecutive month after moving from 7.9 percent in March to 7.7 percent in April, the state Department of Labor reported. The recent rate was the lowest since July 2009. Hiring in all sectors was normal for this time of year except for government and professional and business services, which posted [...]
Warehouse construction starts in west Meridian
POSTED: Friday, May 18, 2012 at 12:57 PM PTBY: Brad Carlson
Tags: commercial construction, industrial buildings, warehouse buildings
Construction of a 45,000-square-foot warehouse building started recently in the Creamline development in Meridian. The building site is north of Franklin Road and east of Linder Road, fronting 13th Street. No leases are signed for space in the building, which could be divided to house up to three businesses, owner-developer Ron Van Auker said. Van [...]
State, federal laws govern animals in the workplace
POSTED: Friday, May 18, 2012 at 12:54 PM PTBY: Patty Hutchens
The information clerk and receptionist don’t work weekends at Bonner General, so Tricia Bellah and her service dog, Indy, fill in for them. The two greet visitors, give directions, and deliver flowers to patients. Under the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, Bellah, who has spina bifida, can take her dog with her into most public [...]
Lap-Band weight loss device maker subpoenaed by U.S. government
POSTED: Friday, May 18, 2012 at 09:16 AM PTBY: Sylvia Hsieh
Lap-Band maker Allergan has been subpoenaed by the U.S. government over problems with the weight loss device. Lawsuits have been filed over injuries and deaths related to gastric band products and surgeries. The company said that the Department of Health and Human Services issued the subpoena earlier this month, but Allergan did not specify the [...]
