Idaho News & Events

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.

"Today, Idahoans can not only find out things like where to vote, whether they are registered to vote, or whether the county has received their absentee ballot, but also register to vote online," Denney said.

"What this new identity enables us to do is start to seed, if you will, us going into other areas beyond yogurt," says Peter McGuinness, Chobani’s chief marketing and commercial officer. But he wouldn’t say what new foods or products it might make, or when it would happen.

Not only does Idaho’s overall tax burden rank much lower than its neighbors and nearly every state, those rankings have barely changed since the study’s been compiled each year over more than three decades.