Journal Staff POCATELLO – A tight market and high demand for contractors is making any effort to hire local help harder for building projects. The Idaho Department of Labor is projecting a rebound in the construction industry through 2020. In their 10-year projections, this rebound lends to a 39 percent increase in jobs, the fastest projected
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Author: Sarah Glenn
Pocatello faces high demand for contractors
Journal Staff POCATELLO – A tight market and high demand for contractors is making any effort to hire local help harder for building projects. The Idaho Department of Labor is projecting a rebound in the construction industry through 2020. In their 10-year projections, this rebound lends to a 39 percent increase in jobs, the fastest projected
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ISU Workforce Training’s Leadership Coaching Program aims to Develop Engaged Leaders
By Laura Soldati For the Idaho State Business Journal POCATELLO – Business consultant Scott Stephens moved back to Pocatello in 2012, after years of working with RLG International, a consulting company that specializes in Leadership Development and Coaching. For months, he tried to launch a coaching and consulting firm that would provide these services to companies
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ISU Workforce Training’s Leadership Coaching Program aims to Develop Engaged Leaders
By Laura Soldati For the Idaho State Business Journal POCATELLO – Business consultant Scott Stephens moved back to Pocatello in 2012, after years of working with RLG International, a consulting company that specializes in Leadership Development and Coaching. For months, he tried to launch a coaching and consulting firm that would provide these services to companies
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Cost and Quality: Alliance aims to heal healthcare’s two great ills
By Sarah Glenn For the Journal POCATELLO – Concerns over cost and efforts to bump up quality have prompted more than 700 area healthcare providers to join a new alliance. Born in 2013, the Portneuf Quality Alliance (PQA) is a group of doctors offices, hospitals, and private companies who, together, aim to improve health outcomes and
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Cost and Quality: Alliance aims to heal healthcare’s two great ills
By Sarah Glenn For the Journal POCATELLO – Concerns over cost and efforts to bump up quality have prompted more than 700 area healthcare providers to join a new alliance. Born in 2013, the Portneuf Quality Alliance (PQA) is a group of doctors offices, hospitals, and private companies who, together, aim to improve health outcomes and
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What is Zonta?
By Debbie Beaumont Contributor Zonta International is an international service organization with the mission of advancing the status of women. The first Zonta Club was founded in Buffalo, New York, in 1919 by a group of businesswomen under the leadership of Marian de Forest. It was organized along the lines of the Rotary Club, with
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Idaho’s Second Quarter 2016 Wages Show 4.2 Percent Increase over 2015
Press Release Idaho’s private sector average weekly wage grew by $30 between the second quarters of 2015 and 2016 to $743. The state’s 4.2 percent over-the-year increase during the second quarter of 2016 was twice the national average rate of 2.1 percent and put Idaho in fourth place behind Washington, New Hampshire and Oregon in
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Idaho Population Growth Strongest Since 2008
Press Release Idaho’s population grew by 1.8 percent between mid-2015 and mid-2016, the third strongest increase of all states and 1.1 percentage point ahead of the national growth rate. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the state’s population was 1,683,140 as of July 1, 2016, an estimated increase of more than 30,300. This was the
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Idaho AARP hosts telephone town hall with legislative leadership
Idaho AARP members as well as the public are invited to participate in a telephone town hall meeting with Idaho Senate President Pro Tem Brent Hill, R-Rexburg, and House Speaker Scott Bedke, R-Oakley, on Wednesday, Jan. 11. The hour-long meeting begins at 9:45 a.m. Participants can join and ask questions by dialing (877) 229-8493 toll-free
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