The Idaho Legislature passed the Coronavirus Limited Immunity Act during its special session at the end of August. Many balloons could have been launched on all the hot air generated in the passage of this law. For all the excitement ...
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The granddaddy of all cost-conscientious steakhouse chains, Sizzler, filed for Chapter 11 on Sept. 21. The company cited rent demands and lost revenue from restaurant closures in its petition filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California. ...
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Lewiston’s St. Joseph Regional Medical Center installed a state-of-the-art computed tomography scanner over the summer. SJRMC’s parent company, LifePoint Health, bought the new equipment for $550,000 for the hospital’s cancer center. The main task for the new CT scanner will ...
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Karole Honas is the most recognizable face in eastern Idaho after 40 years of broadcast journalism. Her career included six years at KPVI Channel 6 in Pocatello followed by 30 years as the anchor at KIFI Local News 8 in ...
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A massive acquisition in Idaho’s tech community is likely to result in worldwide expansion of the market for Cradlepoint’s 5G products, according to executives from Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunications firm that paid $1.1 billion for the Boise company. The market ...
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In the days when the world was young, rocks were still soft and cartoons were shown only on Saturday mornings, television was broadcast over the air using the fossil technology of analog signals received by a physical antenna wired to ...
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The Idaho Business Review revisited COVID-19 data when the financial services WalletHub issued an update to its measure of state coronaviruses restrictions, which we redubbed the COVID laxity index. We originally looked at the laxity data in August, when we ...
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It goes without saying that online shopping has exploded and contactless payment is gaining popularity, but a recent survey of consumers revealed that at least one of every four shoppers prefers to stick with cash for holiday shopping despite rumors ...
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The good news from Governor Brad Little’s Sept. 18 press conference was that Idaho’s economic recovery is well underway. The bad news? Idaho will stay at Stage 4 for two more weeks. “Idahoans have faced much hardship this year,” Little ...
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The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes announced new allocations of their CARES Act funding, including increased funding for tribal small businesses, broadband, infrastructure, health and housing. The presentation to the tribal membership was broadcast live on Sept. 16 over Facebook. The meeting was ...
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