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Improving Idaho’s transportation system has long been one of Gov. Brad Little’s goals, but he has held off on proposing specific programs until this year, after a study by Boise State University’s Idaho Policy Institute was completed last year. That ...

Earlier this year, Norman M. Semanko was appointed as an advisory council member for the nonprofit law organization, Mountain States Legal Foundation. Semanko is Parsons Behle & Latimer’s water law practice group expert in the Pacific Northwest region. He has more than ...

Zions Bank’s Business Resource Center in Boise, which provides classes, one-on-one business counseling and guest speakers to existing and prospective small business owners, was started in 2013 by Karen Appelgren and Sheila Spangler, who had helped start a previous incarnation ...

Being a working woman in Idaho isn’t easy. The state ranks among the lowest in the country for the ratio of women’s earnings to men’s, at 74.2%. What’s worse is that the ratio is getting worse, not better; after reaching ...

Rod Beck was elected in November 2020 to the Ada County Commissioners, after stints as an Idaho legislator, serving as Senate majority leader, and as a Republican party official. With the election of Ryan Davidson as well, that led to ...

The traditional image of a construction site shows a sheaf of blueprints with workers standing around them, and in a large part of the construction industry, that’s still the case. According to the 2018 ConTech Report, 40% of construction companies still ...

The Idaho Workforce Development Council was created by then Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter during his 2018 State of the State message, then ratified by the Legislature, as an entity under the governor’s office, based on the recommendation of the Idaho Workforce Development Task ...

According to a number of nationwide publications, Idaho, and Boise in particular, is attracting tech people from all over the U.S. But few have made as big a splash as Dan Berger, who moved to Idaho last year after picking ...

Joe White MBE is Her Majesty’s Consul-General, San Francisco, and Technology Envoy to the United States in a combined role for the U.K. government to which he was named late last year. He has served as: General Partner of Entrepreneur ...

It’s not unusual for Idahoans to wear many hats, but in the case of Mindi Anderson, she has a whole hat rack. At one point or another, Anderson is or has been a CEO; an entrepreneur; a veteran; a diversity, ...