IdaBlue (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Betsy Russell reports on the new ITD director's pay. Brain Ness will make $165,000 per year. He was making $118,000 in Michigan. The person he replaced, Pam Lowe, was making $143,000 annually. A spokesman for the ITD, Jeff Stratton, said that after accounting for the higher cost of living in Idaho, Ness' salary represents about a 10% increase in spending power. Let's break this down a...
The Political Game (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
An interesting decision handed down by the Idaho Supreme Court, as reported on this week by Eye On Boise's Betsy Russell, has forced to the surface one of Idaho's most colorful political characters. Friday, the Supreme Court of the State of Idaho ruled against former Congressman George V. Hansen, upholding a previous default judgment of $299,350 awarded to Ann Meyers and her late husband...
Right Mind (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Details from Spokesman Review Betsy Russell's blog An Eye on Boise . Idaho's unemployment rate has notched up again, this time by a tenth of a percentage point to 9 percent, the highest since June of 1983. The U.S. Department of Labor today revised Idaho's October rate up from the Nov. 6 forecast, based on additional data; a record 67,800 Idahoans are now jobless, with the state's total...
Right Mind (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Details from Spokesman Review Betsy Russell's blog An Eye on Boise . Gov. Butch Otter today launched an “efficiency” Web site aimed at laying out the state’s budget and soliciting money-saving ideas from citizens. “We need your help. Government does not have a monopoly on good ideas,” Otter wrote in the site’s introduction. “There are hundreds...
Right Mind (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
No surprise here: Ringo and Brown calling for a tax increase during the worst depression since WWII. Details from Spokesman Review Betsy Russell's blog An Eye on Boise . Rep. Shirley Ringo, D-Moscow, and Moscow economist Judy Brown have sent a letter to the editor to newspapers across the state calling for a temporary tax increase to head off a "train wreck" of cuts in state...
Atomic Popcorn (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... who don’t follow through on forwarding chain letters. Chain Letter , which will star Nikki Reed, Betsy Russell, and Brad Dourif , is already being looked at as a franchise possibility. The film will be released next year, produced by Todd Slater through Slater Brothers Entertainment. Shady’s Back, Back Again Scott Stewart’s Priest Cast Gets A Major Upgrade ‘Saw VI’ motion poster released:...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
More Articles:Most Viewed:(3167 views)(2229 views)(1929 views)(1643 views)(1226 views)(1226 views)New Films has picked up worldwide rights to Deon Taylor's horror pic "Chain Letter" and will release the film in the U.S. next year.Pic, which is being screened for international buyers at the American Film Market, stars Nikki Reed ("Twilight," "Twilight Saga: The New Moon"), Betsy Russell...
Ridenbaugh Press (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
There might be some useful lessons drawn (for both parties, really) from the first paragraph of this post today from Spokane Spokesman-Review reporter Betsy Russell: After the Idaho Republican Party took the unusual step of passing a central committee resolution backing party involvement in non-partisan city races, one county’s GOP central committee endorsed a challenger, Alex [...]...
Redirected Email Feed (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... Screening times Book Tickets View trailer Saw VI Cast: Costas Mandylor, Tobin Bell, Mark Rolston, Betsy Russell. Director: Kevin Greutert The sixth instalment in the hugely popular Saw franchise-Halloween wouldn't be complete without it! In Vue cinemas now Screening times Book Tickets View trailer Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant Cast: John C. Reilly, Willem Dafoe, Salma Hayek,...
