State Building Authority backs $14 million Boise Lewiston Idaho Falls office plans
BECKY FANNING Boise UPI The State Building Authority approves $14 million in new state office buildings for Boise Lewiston and Idaho Falls with preliminary designs for Boise Tower at the former Old St Alphonsus site. Budgets for Boise Lewiston Idaho Falls set at $7.5M $3.1M $3.3M, parking land acquisitions approved, and Idaho Falls delayed pending Labor move approval by April 18.
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Becky Fanning Boise
UPI
Department of Administration
State Building Authority
Boise
Lewiston
Idaho Falls
Bart Brown
Boise Tower
St. Alphonsus Hospital
Lewis
Boise Project
Max Boseiger
Division of Public Works
Parents sue over Plunge drain cleaner injuries
Connie and Walter Countryman of Spokane file a 1.2 million dollar suit against Crackett Products, maker of Plunge, claiming their six year old Brent drank the chemical, suffered esophageal burns and scarring, and now cannot eat or swallow properly. They allege improper labeling and lack of child proofing.
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Spokane
API
Crackett Products Company
Connie
Walter Countryman
Brent
Idaho Treasury Sees March Interest Soar
Idaho State Treasurer Majorie Ruth Moon reports March idle fund investments yielded 142 988 to the general fund up from 41 570 a year earlier. Fiscal year 1977 interest total reached 2 245 660 down from 3 969 813 last year due to higher rates previously available.
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Boise
UPI
Idaho
Majorie Ruth Moon
Miss Moon
Special Agency
Nominee Higginson to Lead Bureau of Reclamation
Keith Higginson of Boise, Carter administration nominee for Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, has 11 years as Idaho water chief. He directed a 95-person staff and oversaw water rights, stream protection, well permits, dam safety, waste wells and geothermal development. Higginson holds engineering degree from Utah State and served under two Republicans and one Democrat governor.
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Boise
UPD
Keith Higginson
Carter
Bureau of Reclamation
Idaho
Higginson
Robert E. Smylie
State Reclamation
Idaho Water Resources Department
Cecil D. Andrus
Interior
Utah State University
Logan
Utah
Idaho State Reclamation
Water, Resources Department
Idaho teachers face new certification requirements
Idaho's new certification plan shifts focus from college credit to competence and places decision power with colleges of education. Prospective teachers gain initial certification for three years after four years of study, with extensions upon advanced study and teaching performance. After six years, a master's degree or fifth year is required for full certification, with recertification rules applying to those who pause teaching.
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Becky Fanning
Boise
UPI
Idaho
Colleges of ‘Education
State Board of Education
Janet Hay
Nampa
Idaho Association of School Superintendents
Hay
of ‘Education
Standards Commission
Isi
Professional’ Standards Commission
Idaho Rain Fails to Ease Ongoing Moisture Shortage
The Idaho Crop and Livestock Reporting Service reported last week’s rainfall helped little to relieve a statewide moisture crisis. Officials described conditions as prevailing across the state with only modest gains in soil moisture and crop prospects.
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Boise
UPS
Idaho
Idaho Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Couple To Be Extradited In Child Death Case
Thomas Jenkins and Grace Jenkins waived extradition to Corpus Christi Texas to face charges in the death of Mrs Jenkins two year old daughter from 1974. UPI reports indicate the couple will be returned to Texas following the waiver. The article also notes agricultural conditions in Washington with soil moisture ranging from very short to adequate and livestock health generally good despite limited field work due to storms and open weather. Lambing is near complete and stock water remains adequate.
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Spokane
Wash
UPI
Thomas Jenkins
Grace
Corpus Christi
Tex
Jenkins
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