Idaho Statewide Development, News and Miscellaneous Thread

[Cottonwood]

I was hoping a few might see the humor in my post. The crabs in Lewiston probably cross the state line from Washington, for some reason I bet WA has a lot more crabs, especially Clarkston

[Cottonwood]

The entire article at the link. This year should be a good regarding the massive amounts of food grown in Idaho and exported to planet earth considering all of the disasters in the world and the need for good quality edibles. High tech products are still our largest exported goods.




http://commerce.idaho.gov/news/2011/...y-in-2010.aspx

Idaho Exports Return to Record Territory in 2010
2/11/2011


Idaho exports reached $5.15 billion in 2010, making it a record year for Idaho companies.

Exports increased by more than 32% compared to 2009 and outpaced the U.S. export recovery by nearly 12%. A majority of Idaho’s major export sectors experienced an increase indicating that portions of the economy are starting to recover and exports are leading the way to increased private sector spending.

[202_Cyclist]

U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood Announces Agreement to Fund Improvements Along Woodside Boulevard

4/7/2011

Project Will Enhance Safety, Update Aging Infrastructure in Hailey

"WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today that a signed agreement between the U.S. Department of Transportation and the City of Hailey, Idaho, for $3.5 million will allow work to begin on much needed upgrades to Woodside Boulevard.

"This project will make it safer for the thousands of people who depend on Woodside Boulevard each day," said Secretary LaHood. "By creating jobs and giving area residents additional transportation options, this project will improve the quality of life in Hailey and for the thousands of tourists who visit the Wood River Valley."

The $3.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation's TIGER II (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) program helps provide new sidewalks, bus shelters and bike lanes along Woodside Boulevard. In addition, it will further the city's $4.4 million Woodside Boulevard Complete Streets Initiative by replacing a dangerous intersection with a roundabout and adding a traffic signal at a second unsafe intersection. The project will also add pull-out lanes for buses at 17 of the 18 existing bus stops along the street..."

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/pressroom/fhwa1112.htm

[Cottonwood]

Wolves......always causing a commotion since they have overun our state. When they were reintroduced wasn't the plan or hope that they would remain in our vast Wilderness areas, The Frank Church - River of No Return Wilderness and the Sawtooth Wilderness? Now they walk the streets of Sun Valley/Ketchum and Lowman at night waiting for someones 5 year old to walk by and then chomp on after piercing the little kids throat with its big sharp wolf teeth. Somewhere I read that Idaho has one of the largest number of wolf populations in the Lower 48 States.


http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/0...rosshairs.html

Wolves off the list, in Idaho's crosshairs once again
The estimated 1,000 predators that roam Idaho’s canyons, mountains and rangeland are back under state control.
BY ROCKY BARKER - rbarker@idahostatesman.com
Copyright: © 2011 Idaho Statesman
Published: 05/05/11


Idaho Department of Fish and Game Director Virgil Moore hopes to start killing 50 wolves in north-central Idaho from helicopters and small planes while there is still snow on the ground to make tracking easier and before elk begin having vulnerable calves.



Read more: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/0...#ixzz1LUtkKuv8

[Cottonwood]

RIP



Baseball star Harmon Killebrew to be buried in Payette on Monday
Idaho Statesman
Published: 05/18/11
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/0...killebrew.html






Idaho native Harmon Killebrew, who died Tuesday after a battle with esophageal cancer, will be buried in his hometown, the Killebrew family and the National Baseball Hall of Fame announced Wednesday morning. The service will be private.

A public funeral service is scheduled for Friday morning at Christ's Church of the Valley in Peoria, Ariz. Killebrew died at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 74.

The Minnesota Twins have scheduled a public memorial service for May 26 at Target Field in Minneapolis. The American League team is off that night, and plans to start the service at 7 p.m. local time.

Killebrew is a member of the Hall of Fame and is ranked No. 11 on baseball's all-time home run list with 573. He spent 22 seasons with the Twins, Washington Senators and Kansas City Royals.

[Cottonwood]

Sun Valley/Ketchum happenings.

Gossip website: Governator retreats to Ketchum, with pic

Read more: http://voices.idahostatesman.com/201...#ixzz1NTpoTSLs


TMZ published a picture Wednesday showing former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pedaling in Ketchum, with a teasing caption:

"Arnold Schwarzenegger took a much needed break from L.A. this morning -- riding out the storm in quiet Ketchum, Idaho ... on a bicycle."

Schwarzenegger has long had a vacation home in Ketchum and often skied Baldy. This reporter once saw the actor leading his family on skis, calling out, "Mah-REE-ah! Mah-REE-ah!" He wasn't summoning Mrs. Von Trapp.



http://www.tmz.com/2011/05/25/arnold...m-idaho-photo/


Read more: http://voices.idahostatesman.com/201...#ixzz1NTpxJ5xE

[Cottonwood]

More Sun Valley news. Come on Tom Hanks, you are not God even if you own a 12 million dollar home in Sun Valley. I've heard his mansion is next to Brook Shields mansion..can anyone confirm?



The entire article at the link.

http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005136770
Hanks denied amends in house dispute

Arbitrators blame problems on Texas architectural firm

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By TERRY SMITH
Express Staff Writer


Actor Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, have lost a $3 million arbitration claim in a home construction dispute with Ketchum contractor Storey Construction.

[202_Cyclist]

Leaders want FAA to pay more for new airport

By :JASON KAUFFMAN
Idaho Mtn Express
6/8/2011

"Members of the Friedman Memorial Airport Authority hope to convince Federal Aviation Administration officials that the county shouldn't be responsible for half the costs for a planned replacement airport. That's the typical funding share many communities around the country have shouldered for the construction of their own replacement airports.

Airport Authority officials have expressed concern with Blaine County's ability to pay half the estimated price tag for the new airport, which has soared to more than $300 million at last count.

"We're questioning whether we can come up that amount of money," said Blaine County Commissioner Larry Schoen, who along with Commissioner Tom Bowman represents the county on the board..."

http://www.mtexpress.com/vu_breaking....php?bid=97040

[Cottonwood]

Didn't Bruce Willis offer money or land or something towards construction of this new airport?

[202_Cyclist]

Correct, Bruce Willis proposed a private airport (without scheduled passenger service) near Fairfield, Idaho.

Willis airport not slated for commercial use
http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005126690

[Cottonwood]

I decided to post this here in the Idaho thread. I don't think many of us who participate here would agree with some of her opinions regarding the new convention center, (and I'm sure she would not have agreed with most of us ) recalling mayors, etc., but she was a very well known and respected person. Boise will miss you.


http://www.boiseweekly.com/CityDesk/...od-market-dies

Boise Owner of Hollywood Market Dies
Posted by George Prentice on Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:19 AM

Margaret Lawrence, the 95-year-old iconic owner of the Hollywood Market in Boise's North End, died Wednesday at St. Luke's Boise Medical Center.


Lawrence ran her Eighth Street store seven days a week, 10 hours a day for decades. Up until the the mid-1990s, she was still making personal grocery deliveries to some of her North End customers. She was famous for leading recall efforts against Boise Mayor Dave Bieter in 2005 and against former Mayor Brent Coles in 2003. Her store was also filled with signs opposing Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter. The store was shuttered in early May, with a sign on the door saying "store closed due to illness."




Lawrence was the daughter of Robert "Two-Gun" Limbert, who founded and help build Redfish Lake Lodge near Stanley.

Lawrence is survived by a son, Daniel.

[GrandTeton]

That's somber news. She was a cheerful woman.

[Cottonwood]

More China conspiracy news Idaho is the most forested inland western state so I guess we will have enough trees for China

http://voices.idahostatesman.com/201...o_forest_towns


China timber market could revive rural Idaho forest towns
Submitted by Rocky Barker on Mon, 06/27/2011 - 9:56am.

There remain many in Idaho that hope a rebirth of the state’s timber industry can provide a base for its rural economy in the forested region that starts in Boise and runs to the Canadian border.



If Idaho’s timber industry is to become a rural job producer again it will likely come from serving the China market. China has few forests and certainly not enough to meet the needs of its income-rising middle class.



Read more: http://voices.idahostatesman.com/201...#ixzz1QVblUGkV

[Cottonwood]

The New York investment bank Allen & Company is beginning their yearly bash in Sun Valley again. Some of the medias largest deals have been made at this yearly conference.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...len-photos.DTL


SUN VALLEY: Bill Gates To Interview Mark Zuckerberg At Allen & Co. Mogul-Fest

Business Insider July 5, 2011 04:00 AM .





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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-0...ia-models.html

Sun Valley Moguls Shift Focus to Media Models
By Brett Pulley - Jul 4, 2011 10:01 PM MT


Media executives gather at Allen & Co.’s Sun Valley conference this week looking to shed assets such as the Hulu LLC video website and G4 game channel amid a declining global stock market and slowing economic growth.

Rupert Murdoch and executives from Hulu’s owners will join Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg among about 300 participants scheduled to arrive today for the weeklong annual conference in Idaho organized by the investment bank.

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Since 1983, the Sun Valley Conference has been sponsored by the media investment-banking boutique Allen & Co. It is called a “summer camp for moguls,” as the heads of industry ride around the resort on bicycles, go fishing, hiking and white-water rafting. Many of them bring their families, and the guest list usually includes a few celebrities, from politics, sports or entertainment. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and the actress Candice Bergen are on this year’s list.

[Cottonwood]

Allen & Co. in Sun Valley update.


http://www.boiseweekly.com/CityDesk/...-in-sun-valley

Moguls Are Joined by Politicians, Actors and Oprah in Sun Valley

Posted by George Prentice on Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:20 AM


The New York Times reports today that Sun Valley Lodge is packed to the gills with moguls for the 29th annual Allen & Company media conference.

While most of the 300 attendees are business moguls, there are some other notables as well: New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg (who was a mogul long before he started slumming it as a politician), New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, designer Diane von Furstenberg, PBS talk show host Charlie Rose, Oscar nominee Salma Hayek, and the queen of everything, Oprah Winfrey.

The schedule, which is never made available to the press, presumably begins with breakfast speeches at 6:30 a.m. and continues until way past sundown

[Cottonwood]

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/07/...sun-valley/?hp
Mergers & Acquisitions Sun Valley 2011
Deal Makers Soak Up Sun Valley
By EVELYN M. RUSLI

SUN VALLEY, Idaho — “I heard you bought Disney!” bellowed James Wiatt, the former chief of the William Morris Agency, as he stood in the lobby of the Sun Valley Lodge, bearing down on Robert Kotick, the chief executive of Activision Blizzard.


Such was the congenial mood on Tuesday night, as moguls converged at the lodge’s bar, Duchin, to toast the 29th annual Allen & Company conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.



As DealBook arrived — or rather walked up to the entrance of the bar, since journalists are barred from entering Duchin at night — Salma Hayek, sporting a bold-print dress and thick head of curls, was leaving.

[202_Cyclist]

Airport bond could reach millions

Authority releases draft funding plan

Katherine Wutz
7/8/2011
Idaho Mountain Express

"The Friedman Memorial Airport Authority could ask taxpayers whether they're willing to cough up $35.5 million in additional property taxes to fund a new airport, board members revealed Tuesday.

During a meeting of the Airport Authority, airport Manager Rick Baird released a draft version of a report written by airport staff for the Federal Aviation Administration that requests increased funding from the federal government for the proposed replacement airport..."

http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005137482

[Sawtooth]

Banks to Lowman Highway, north of Boise.























































Big Falls

[202_Cyclist]

Idaho is a beautiful state. You're fortunate to have this close by.

[Sawtooth]

July 4