By Zach Kyle/The Idaho Statesman A finance news and opinion website ranked Idaho the third-best state for business, though not all of the report’s findings are good for workers. The website, 24/7 Wall St., crunched Census data and ranked states by several factors contributing to favorable business conditions. Idaho notched the 10th-highest change in state
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By Zach Kyle/The Idaho Statesman A finance news and opinion website ranked Idaho the third-best state for business, though not all of the report’s findings are good for workers. The website, 24/7 Wall St., crunched Census data and ranked states by several factors contributing to favorable business conditions. Idaho notched the 10th-highest change in state
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By Amy Macavinta, HJ News Staff Writer Marvin Graham’s home sits on a 50-acre parcel of land southwest of Preston on a bluff overlooking the Bear River. Inside, a fire crackles in the wood stove, but ice crystals still formed on the window, framing the view of the river bottoms below. This is where Graham
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By Amy Macavinta, HJ News Staff Writer Marvin Graham’s home sits on a 50-acre parcel of land southwest of Preston on a bluff overlooking the Bear River. Inside, a fire crackles in the wood stove, but ice crystals still formed on the window, framing the view of the river bottoms below. This is where Graham
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By Amy Macavinta, HJ News Staff Writer Marvin Graham’s home sits on a 50-acre parcel of land southwest of Preston on a bluff overlooking the Bear River. Inside, a fire crackles in the wood stove, but ice crystals still formed on the window, framing the view of the river bottoms below. This is where Graham
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By Alison Noon/The Associated Press CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Computer chips that store personal information and could be used to pinpoint someone’s location could not be implanted in humans without consent under a bill Nevada state lawmakers weighed on Monday. Lawmakers on a judicial panel considered whether Nevada should join at least four other
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By Betsy Russell BOISE — An Idaho House committee voted down legislation Monday to ban the sale of aerial fireworks in Idaho. Shooting off aerial fireworks already is illegal in the state, but a loophole in the law allows them to be sold legally at two busy locations in southwestern Idaho. Those businesses require purchasers
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By Rebecca Boone/Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Jurors heard opening arguments Monday in a lawsuit brought by former inmates against the nation’s largest private prison company, CoreCivic — formerly called Corrections Corporation of America. “When you choose to do a dangerous job, you must do it right,” said Thomas J. Angstman, the attorney representing
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho House panel has introduced legislation that would create a new state program designed to provide basic health care to Idaho adults who currently don’t have health insurance. The Spokesman-Review (http://bit.ly/2lCjNZJ ) reports that House Health and Welfare Committee Chairman Fred Wood, a Republican from Burley, said Monday that his
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By Zach Kyle/Idaho Statesman Hans Nederend, the third-generation owner of Nederend Dairy near Marsing, mostly employs Latino immigrants for a simple reason: Idaho-born workers don’t want the jobs. Idaho’s worker pool evaporated as the state’s unemployment rate fell to a meager 3.7 percent, causing worker shortages in agriculture as well as hospitality, construction and food
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