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Chad Moffat is president of Boise Mobile Equipment, a rapidly growing company that has been making wildland and municipal fire trucks in Boise since 1990. Moffat, who has a background in finance, got involved with BME in 2014 when his ...

It’s been 10 years since Jon Swarthout, then the leader of a small children’s dance program in the Treasure Valley, decided to buy a stately stone church in Hyde Park that had fallen on hard times. Swarthout planned to turn ...

Jasper Burchard had been out of school and at home, unemployed, for two years when she started taking the bus from Caldwell to Life’s Kitchen in Boise for a food service training program. On Nov. 13, she stood up at ...

While the toll of the prescription drug epidemic in society is well-documented, the impact on employers has not been studied closely. To learn more about how prescription drugs affect the workplace, the Idaho Office on Drug Policy and Idaho Industrial ...

Scott Jorgensen is an operating partner at Banyan Ventures, a Salt Lake City private equity firm that is seeking to invest in some early-stage Idaho companies and open an office in Boise. Jorgensen’s educational background is in accounting, and his ...

Remember how the millennials were all moving to the city, eschewing automobiles and prompting apartment growth? Well, that generation – born in the 1980s and early 1990s – is growing up, and now they’re headed to the suburbs. And not ...

Andrew Mentzer is executive director of the West Central Mountains Economic Development Council, a McCall-based organization that is striving to improve economic development in the rural central Idaho county that includes Cascade, Donnelly, and McCall. Mentzer has a community planning ...

The number of women-owned businesses in Idaho has doubled in the last 20 years, according to a yearly report commissioned by American Express OPEN. Idaho has an estimated 51,600 women-owned businesses, employing 39,600 and attributing to roughly $4.99 billion, according ...

Boise Mobile Equipment, a Boise company that makes fire trucks for urban and wildland firefighting, is expanding into a larger space. The 27-year-old company was purchased in 2014, and the new owners have expanded its marketing and recently acquired two ...

Roger Quarles is a longtime educator who in 2014 became executive director of the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation, a private organization run by the family of the supermarket founders Joe and Kathryn Albertson. The foundation focuses on improving ...