If Affordable Health Care Act is upheld, expect big changes
POSTED: Friday, May 18, 2012 at 12:26 PM PTBY: Andrea J. Rosholt
The Affordable Care Act (the “Act”) and its companion legislation have received significant attention since they were signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010. The fate of the Act now rests in the hands of the United States Supreme Court. Commentators expect the court to hand down a decision in June. Most [...]
Vote with your seat for air service 
POSTED: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 04:36 PM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
I’m flying to upstate New York for my college reunion next week, and I’m stockpiling work and reading matter on my Kindle. With stops in Minneapolis and Atlanta, it’s going to take me 13 hours to get there. But that’s the way it is to fly from Boise these days. Direct flights are scarce, especially [...]
Defining Class A office space
POSTED: Monday, May 14, 2012 at 11:59 AM PTBY: Bill Beck
Is it Class A office space or simply “new, classy and with lots of cool doodads”? If you have considered leasing office space in Boise anytime during the last 20 years you probably have heard the term Class A. But is the building deserving of a Class A designation, or is that just a marketing [...]
Underground hot water is just the ticket for my Aussie visitors
POSTED: Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 11:11 AM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
I’ve always felt lucky to have many Australian relatives. Not only do I get to visit them, but I get to see them visiting Boise. Australia has a lot in common with Idaho, but you’d never know it if you spent time with my family as they take in our sights and sounds. Last week, [...]
A new outlook for lawyers
POSTED: Friday, May 4, 2012 at 01:34 PM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
This week, as the newly moved-in staff at Concordia University School of Law showed visitors around their swanky downtown building, the New York Times was running another grim story about the job market for lawyers. The law school, Boise’s first, is opening its doors to students in August. It’s a project that’s been in the [...]
U.S. Export-Import Bank walks the plank
POSTED: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 05:31 PM PTBY: John Stodder
The Export-Import Bank, a legacy of the New Deal that helps thousands of small businesses and some very large ones compete in foreign markets, teeters on the brink of extinction because it has become a symbol of big government largesse and corporate cronyism. For the bank’s allies, it is a distressing sign of the extreme [...]
Protect your law practice from difficult clients
POSTED: Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 02:12 PM PTBY: Dustin A. Cole
Keeping control of clients who become difficult to manage — and making sure you filter out the not-so-good clients in the first place — are essential to maintaining a successful law practice and holding onto your sanity. This can be especially important in family law matters, where emotions tend to run high. But I’ve found [...]
Outrageous construction law cases
POSTED: Monday, April 23, 2012 at 01:11 PM PTBY: Guy Randles
People involved in litigation rarely find it amusing. Few are detached enough to find it even interesting. Most find it at best a necessary evil and at worst an unmitigated disaster. Lawyers worth their salt feel their clients’ pain and try to avoid the expense and risks of litigation. When litigation does result, they try [...]
The spam that brings us together
POSTED: Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 11:12 AM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
Last Friday, in the middle of the workday, spammers used our family e-mail account to send out a bogus work-at-home offer. I don’t know how it happened, and I really don’t know why. But I know exactly when it started because I began getting the spam e-mails from my family e-mail address while I was [...]
Viral ‘wind map’ aims to promote wind energy
POSTED: Monday, April 16, 2012 at 08:30 AM PTBY: John Stodder
Tags: wind energy
Two media artists moonlighting from Google’s “Big Picture” visualization lab have created a “wind map” to show where, when and how powerfully the wind blows, in real time, all over the lower 48 states. The project is intended to promote wind energy. Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, the data engineers/artists who created it, wrote: “An [...]
