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The Wisconsin billionaire owner of downtown Boise’s BoDo is now also the owner of the Chicago-style Jefferson Place office building at Ninth and Jefferson streets. The five-story, brick structure built in 1914 was acquired June 9 by Hendricks Commercial Properties ...

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Idaho credit unions are among the most successful in the country, according to second-quarter results from the National Credit Union Association and analysis from the Northwest Credit Union Association. Idaho scored the highest in the nation in median annual asset ...

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The Salvation Army’s sale of its 1928 Booth Marian Pritchett School property on the North End closed on Sept. 28 for $2 million after a prolonged approval process, the Salvation Army reported. Even under new ownership, the Salvation Army’s School ...

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Economics is traditionally known as the “dismal science,” and a series of economists have proved it in recent weeks by reminding Idahoans that, while things are mostly going well now, the economy is cyclical and a recession is likely at ...

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Woodland Kids in early September leased the final 12,000-square-foot space to fill up the former Kmart building on Fairview Avenue in western Boise. Kmart, which occupied the space since it was built in 1976 at what was then the western ...

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When China stopped taking American waste for recycling last January, it threw Boise and other western U.S. cities into a tizzy. Boise added the orange energy bag and a confusing set of rules for home recyclers. Now a movement is ...

The city of Meridian is the latest municipality in the state to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Idaho’s Legislature has so far refused to pass a bill that would add such protections to the state’s human ...

Idaho, particularly Boise, can become more of a tech hub as places like Silicon Valley lose their luster, but it has to take advantage of the situation, attendees of the Idaho Technology Council’s develop.idaho conference learned. The two major components ...

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Cyber attacks and costly accidental losses of sensitive personal and financial information are no longer confined to retailers such as Target and Sony or banks and investment houses such as JP Morgan. Professional service firms — accountants, lawyers, financial advisors ...

In an attempt to improve broadband internet access in Idaho’s rural areas, the federal government recently awarded four grants under two programs to Idaho companies for a total of almost $2 million. In the first program, Idaho was awarded $1.4 ...

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