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Provencher says the nuclear research lab produced "high quality, original and creative results that advanced science, engineering and technology across the laboratory research and development portfolio."

The company, which employs hundreds of refugees, aims to create the ‘Silicon Valley of food’ in Southern Idaho

"I landed in Boise seeking simplicity but left delighting in complexity," globe-trotting freelancer John Briley proclaims. "… I kept hearing ‘outdoorsy’ and kept finding divinely artsy."

Tthe money isn’t doing the one thing it was supposed to do.

Prosecutors in Taiwan say two employees of Micron Technology Inc. stole trade secrets in a conspiracy Micron says was spurred by a former senior executive to benefit an emerging competitor in mainland China.

Intuit, the company behind products like QuickBooks and TurboTax, today announced that it has acquired TSheets, a time-tracking service and employee scheduling app with over 35,000 customers.

"It’s a little harder to find the talent. The plus side, though, is you can find world-class talent that wants to live in this area," Gerber said. "Once you get them, it is so much easier to hang on to them because nobody is going to poach them from you."

Otter said the key reason education remains a priority is because there are currently 24,000 jobs in Idaho that aren’t filled largely due to a lack of education among the state’s workforce.

This (potential) clash raises the possibility that liberals from states like California and Washington are going to change Idaho as they continue to move here in large numbers, eventually making it a less conservative state.

Yet Idaho politicians, including Gov. Butch Otter and all three of the leading GOP candidates to succeed him in next year’s election, are calling for cutting Idaho’s personal and corporate income tax rates.