By Dani Grigg A couple years ago, I was watching the ABC evening news with good old Charlie Gibson. I wasn’t prepared for it, but that night I was the victim of a paradigm shift. I was assaulted ...
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Building Permits 
BUILDING PERMITSCITY OF BOISEPERMIT/TYPE OWNER BUILDER LOCATION VALUE01964-addition Hillcrest Country Club Inc Custom Pools & Patio 4610 W Hillcrest Dr 325,43202126-addiiton Maryann Fivecoat not listed 111 S 27th St 29,88302117-alteration E 2 Properties LLC not listed 393 W Parkcenter Blvd ...
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Hope Plaza Apartments construction is planned at 16th and Elgin streets, Caldwell. Bids 3 p.m. Dec. 23 to New Beginnings Housing LLC. Plans call for constructing a three-story, 24-unit apartment building, constructing a building that includes day care, community and ...
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Servpro of Boise, a restoration services company, leased 11,922 square feet of industrial space at 11350 W. Executive Drive, Boise. Chris Pearson and Gavin Phillips of Thornton Oliver Keller handled the transaction. Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, plans to move his ...
Read More »Unemployment payouts hit one-week record 
Idaho paid out $16.2 million dollars in regular, extended and supplemental unemployment insurance benefits during the Dec. 14-18 work week, exceeding the previous weekly record of $15.1 million paid during the first week in April of this year, state labor ...
Read More »More area residential subdivisions choose benefits of pressurized irrigation systems 
Three Ada County subdivisions will begin next summer using inexpensive canal water to irrigate lawns, gardens and landscaping rather than pristine and expensive municipal drinking water thanks to pressurized urban irrigation systems managed by the Nampa and Meridian Irrigation District, NMID ...
Read More »Micron leaving NYSE for NASDAQ 
Micron Technology will be leaving the New York Stock Exchange and transferring its stock to the NASDAQ Global Select Market, the company announced on Dec. 18. According to a news release, the Boise-based memory chip maker is undertaking the move ...
Read More »Unemployment benefits keep Idaho personal income growing 
Unemployment insurance payments for Idaho’s record number of jobless workers kept total personal income in the state growing last summer, the second quarter in a row that unemployment benefits were responsible for modest income growth, state labor officials said. The ...
Read More »Poll-a-palooza: Don’t judge a study by its binding 
Depending on who you talk to these days, Boise is either an entrepreneurial Xanadu, or a business-killing wasteland. Likewise, according to some, Idaho is either a beacon of innovative, capitalist can-do, or it’s a provincial backwater filled with subsidized gentleman ...
Read More »PUC approves sales agreement for Elmore County wind project 
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission has approved a sales agreement with Idaho Winds LLC for a wind project six miles northwest of Glenns Ferry in Elmore County. Meridian-based Idaho Winds will construct and operate the 21-megawatt Sawtooth Wind Project. Though ...
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