Idaho News & Events

"If they aren’t bright enough to compare the value of a dollar in Boise compared to the value of a dollar in the Bay Area, then I don’t want them anyhow."

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"We’ve been avoiding this issue for a long time, because our employers don’t like to hear it: We don’t pay well."

The gap is likely to hit the INL, where 30 percent of the staff is over the age of 50 and much of the company’s projected growth is in technology fields it could become hard to hire for, Peters said.

StartUp Grind Boise has brought in speakers including Kupor; Ryan DeLuca, founder and former CEO of Bodybuilding.com; George Mulhern, CEO of Cradlepoint; and Mark Solon, a Boisean who is now managing partner of TechStars, a Colorado startup accelerator and investor.

Empire Aerospace has serviced large propeller airplane known as turboprops for about a decade, but it is now looking to diversify because more and more customers are choosing to fly in jets.

Once numbers are crunched — no matter how high or low they turn out to be, and almost no matter how much support there is for moving forward – you will feel the weight of the supermajority.

The Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine will be a privately funded for-profit medical school with the capacity to have up to 150 a year starting in 2018, with the hope of creating more doctors for rural Idaho.

Depending on where you draw Downtown’s boundaries, anywhere between seven and 15 major projects are under construction or in the planning phase.

"What we came out wanting to do was identify what skill sets were lacking in the community and decide how to train for those positions," Stelma said. "We hope to attract new employers and to help fill current open positions."