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We aim to solve two big problems: first, help our employers find talent to fill their unfilled job openings and second, provide meaningful, high paying careers to more Idahoans," said John Hale, a Trailhead board member.

"The town is exploding," said Miller, now owner of Stubbs Realty in Kuna, where he sells many of those houses. People come for the small-town atmosphere and low home prices, he said.

Trailhead has about 375 individual members, some of whom are employees of more than 60 member companies.

"Eighty percent of Idaho County is non-taxable property and without Rural Schools, we would be forced to ask patrons to increase their taxes a whole lot to keep our schools at this level."

"Flooding a rural community with fiber optics and tablets does not necessarily result in the meaningful use of technology. Acquiring digital literacy is a far more formidable task than providing physical access to information and communication technology."

"Entrepreneurship is a critical ingredient to a growing economy and a growing state and the Idaho Entrepreneur Challenge is the catalytic event that brings us all together," says Gordon Jones, dean of the College of Innovation and Design at Boise State.

The ad shows a mock police mugshot of a woman holding a card saying she was arrested in Salt Lake County for the crime of having "one drink with dinner."

"You can only build what there’s labor available to build."

"People recognize clusters are good things because they help build networks, but clusters are also hard on businesses," Ketels said at his talk April 5. "They force companies to compete for talent and to move quickly to innovate before someone else with a similar idea jumps into their growing market."

So far, meetings in Twin Falls, Idaho Falls and Fort Hall have drawn comments overwhelmingly in favor of the standards that lawmakers rejected.