Idaho News & Events

The Idaho State Independent Living Council along with the Idaho Employment for People with Disabilities Stakeholder Group, say the website will connect employers, people with disabilities and people who provide services to the disabled to help with employment.

Davis, 27, is competing against hundreds of other inventors in a Federal Trade Commission contest aimed at blocking illegal robocalls on both cellphones and land lines.

A business development fund would require companies to meet agreed-upon goals in capital expansion or job creation, said Jeffery Sayer, director of the Idaho Department of Commerce. Money would be paid out after a company meets its performance goals. Agreements and funds paid out would be public, according to a bill Sayer is preparing.

Three key principles received short shrift for much of the past decade, some local entrepreneurs say, but they’re being observed now.

"We don’t want anybody to move out of state because of this." Neither Montana nor Oregon have sales taxes.

Beefing up presentations is a crowded business space, with companies developing more eye-catching ways to attract audience, Foster said. SlideKlowd is in the business of measuring audience dynamics, which he thinks give them a unique niche.

Otter’s decision to form the group follows the rejection by voters in November of all the laws passed in 2011 to change teacher contract negotiations, reward teachers for student achievement and integrate more online learning into high school classrooms.

Idaho has one of the highest rates in the nation in which people work more than one job. He also noted that can be difficult for women with kids with no child support.

The trade delegation will visit Seoul, Taipei and Ho Chi Minh City from April 19 to 27. Locations were chosen from a survey of Idaho companies’ top export destinations, according to the Idaho Department of Commerce.

The company also closed a call center in Arizona last week, putting about 150 people out of work.