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Boise State University recently saved nearly $1 million (present value basis) by financing its College of Business and Economics building project largely through the Build America Bonds program. The program would be extended from the end of this year to ...

Companies in southern Idaho plan to take a closer look at rail transport if the city of Boise pushes ahead with plans announced last week to transform the local rail infrastructure. The city signed an agreement with Boise Valley Railroad ...

Improving freight rail opportunities for businesses in the Boise valley has moved to the forefront of the city of Boise. Mayor Dave Bieter, working with Boise Valley Railroad (BVRR), will soon begin exploring the construction of a transload and intermodal ...

The U.S. Senate rejected an amendment to financial reform legislation brought by Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo that would have capped bailouts to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The measure failed with 47 lawmakers voting in favor and 46 ...

Three Idaho prisons are undergoing leadership changes. The Pocatello Women’s Correctional Center, along with Boise’s South Idaho Correctional Institution and the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, all have new wardens. Jim Woolf, who has been the deputy chief of the Idaho ...

Sen. Mike Crapo convened a handful of small business owners at a carpet store on Boise’s Main Street on May 14 to rail against the financial reform bill being debated in the U.S. Senate. Crapo focused his opposition on a ...

Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter will travel to China in June with other state officials and business leaders on a trade mission, an Idaho Department of Commerce official said. Damien Bard, administrator of the department’s International Business Division, said 15 people ...

Boise Mayor Dave Bieter, city councilmen and members of the city’s urban renewal agency board are beginning to take a look at a $45 million, north-south “starter” streetcar route that would run across the Boise River as they rethink the ...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is honoring Idaho’s entire Congressional delegation with Spirit of Enterprise awards for their votes in 2009, with the business lobbying group scoring Rep. Walt Minnick the highest of the group. The chamber grants the awards ...

The Idaho Department of Insurance wants small businesses to know that they may be eligible for reimbursement for the medical costs incurred by retirees age 55 and older who do not qualify for Medicare starting on June 1, when a ...