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"The town is in a death spiral"

Why: If the state doesn’t expand its current transmission capacity, Idaho won’t be prepared to accommodate future industrial growth, he said. "When new businesses come, they want to be able to go to the wholesale market and move energy to them."

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Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter’s $17,000 marketing push to convince Oregon and Washington businesses to move to Idaho has so far failed to yield any results.

Valley Forge vice president Keith McClellan says the company plans to first build a demo unit and if that is successful, manufacture the $8 million systems in eastern Idaho.

State spending on higher ed has been slashed 24 percent — by $61 million — in two years.

Idaho’s economic forecast has been downgraded from predictions made in July, another sign that recovery from the economic doldrums will unfold slowly rather than quickly.

The company’s annual sales have held steady during the last few years at $20 million, with sales primarily going to customers in the medical equipment and aerospace industries. The company also has electronics and recreational products customers. The bulk of its customers are located in the Northwest and California.

The Sandpoint, Idaho-based company expects to eventually employ more than 160 workers in the facility that is projected to bring hoped-for economic vitality to southwestern Utah.

The Post Falls factory produced knife No. 1 million of 2010 on Friday – and there are still two months left in the year.

Idaho businesses thinking about hiring new employees could benefit from an on-the-job training program the Idaho Department of Labor is coordinating with a $625,000 federal grant.