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wards are nice.
But maintaining a genera-
tions-long record of serving our
communities is more important than
any award could ever be.
The Society of Professional Journal-
ists in May selected the Post Register as
the best small newspaper in the North-
west. The award, presented by Region
10 of the Society of Professional Jour-
nalists, was for work completed in 2012.
Region 10 comprises Alaska, Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and Montana and
is one of 12 regions nationwide. The
societys membership includes about
8,000 journalists in the United States
and abroad.
The General Excellence award is one
of the most prestigious weve ever re-
ceived and we were proud to get it.
Editor and Publisher Roger Plothow
summed up the companys feelings
about the honor:
To be selected as the best daily
newspaper among the more than 100 of
our size in the Pacific Northwest takes a
little good fortune, a lot of planning and
the hard work of two dozen talented
journalists. That all came together for
us in 2012.
Its gratifying to have the eforts of our
newsroom recognized by our colleagues
in such a signifcant way and serves to
confrm that were on the right track.
More important, it helps us reaf rmour
commitment to always get better.
However, the recognition from our
peers would mean little without the
support and trust of the more than
70,000 eastern Idahoans who read the
Post Register on a daily basis.
In many cases our companys rela-
tionship with its customers families
dates back more than a century. For
those families the Post Register has
been the paper where they shared the
announcement of their childrens births,
sporting and scholastic accomplish-
ments, engagements and weddings.
Its also where theyve marked the
passing of loved ones.
Our reporting has made you laugh
and made you cry and, sometimes,
made you mad.
Through it all the Post Registers
employees have worked hard to keep
you informed of whats going on in
your neighborhoods and towns. Each
year the companys reporters and edi-
tors produce thousands of local news
articles, most of which arent available
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The Post Register clearly reflects
the pulse of the community and is not
afraid to tackle the big stories, wrote
one of the contests judges.
Thats certainly what we aim to do
because were not just nameless, faceless
corporate drones. Were your neighbors,
too.
The Post Register has more than 140
employees who are proud to call eastern
Idaho home.
So we hope youll join us in celebrating
this award, because its your award, too.
Awards are nice, but the most im-
portant thing is having someone to
share them with.
Tank you for your continued support.
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Vol. 81, No. 161 2012 Post Register, Idaho Falls, Idaho 75 daily / $1.50 Sunday
I Norio Abe lived
in Ishinomaki, Japan,
one of the hardest-hit
cities in last years
tsunami. Today, Abe
lives with his son
and daughter-in-law
in St. Anthony.
BY SVEN BERG
sberg@postregister.com
S
T. ANTHONY
Norimasa Abe sent his
daughter to Japan with
two return plane tickets and
one simple instruction: Bring
your grandfather back to
Idaho.
Norimasa Abe knew his
father would resist. Worried
about Norio Abes health and
faltering mobility, hed been
trying to convince his father to
come live with him in St.
Anthony since long before the
March 2011 tsunami struck
Ishinomaki.
But while the home that
Norio Abe built on a hillside in
Ishinomaki, Japan, after World
War II survived the disaster, it
suffered significant damage.
With winter coming, the family
was convinced their patriarch
should relocate to eastern
Idahos cold but tsunami-free
high desert.
So in December, Norimasa
Abe played the most persua-
sive card in his hand: his
daughter, Miyai Abe Griggs.
If I went there, probably he
wouldnt come, Norimasa Abe
said. Miyai went there, so
thats why he listened.
Today, more than a year
after the tsunami killed almost
4,000 Ishinomaki residents,
Norio Abe lives in St. Anthony
with his son and daughter-in-
law, Tsukiko Abe. He likes
being around his family, and
hes impressed when he sees
Abe Griggs driving her hus-
bands truck, which is bigger
than anything hes used to see-
ing.
But even at 86, hes a little
restless.
Its so quiet here, hes kind
of bored sometimes, Abe
Griggs said.
Fish out of water
Norio Abe didnt know
about the tsunami until he saw
fish in the streets.
At 85, he slept through the
disaster, only waking to make
sure a dresser in his home did-
nt fall over during the earth-
quake that preceded the del-
uge. Earthquakes are common
Airport
sees a
busy 1st
quarter
IA new service route to
Oakland debuts later this
month and could provide
an even bigger boost to
traffic at the I.F. airport.
BY CLARK CORBIN
ccorbin@postregister.com
With the economic slump behind
them, more people are boarding
flights out of Idaho Falls than in the
previous three years.
Between January and March,
35,334 people boarded commercial
flights out of the Idaho Falls Regional
Airport. Thats a 4.8 percent increase
from the same time frame in 2011,
when 33,713 passengers hopped
aboard local flights.
The three-month period to open
the year also represented the busiest
first quarter for the local airport since
2008.
Its looking a little bit better, air-
port Director Len Nelson said. Its
not robust, but things are steady, and
were hoping to get another bump
here at the end of April.
On April 27, Las Vegas-based
Allegiant Air will launch a new com-
By the numbers
Number of passengers board-
ing flights at the Idaho Falls
Regional Airport, January
through March:
I 2012: 35,334
I 2011: 33,713
I 2010: 30,259
I 2009: 32,978
I 2008: 40,130
Source: Idaho Falls Regional
Airport
I Bonneville, Jefferson, Madison and Teton
counties will test their problem-solving
skills during exercises that begin today.
BY ZACH KYLE
zkyle@postregister.com
Eastern Idaho and its surroundings arent immune to earth-
quakes.
It wasnt that long ago geologically speaking that the
Quake Lake earthquake hit southwestern Montana. The Aug. 17,
1959, earthquake, which registered 7.3 on the Richter scale,
killed 28 people and injured many more.
Less than a quarter-century later, the Borah Peak earthquake
6.9 on the Richter scale struck Custer County on Oct. 28,
1983. Two Challis
schoolchildren were
killed by falling
debris from a downtown
building.
The Borah Peak earth-
quake is the largest ever
recorded in Idaho, both in terms of magnitude
and in amount of property
damage, according to
the U.S. Geological
Survey.
Imagine if that quakes epicenter were
Counties to stage mock earthquake disaster drills this week
Disaster exercises
TODAY
Teton County
I School District 401 personnel will evac-
uate to the Teton County Fairgrounds in
Driggs at 1413 N. Highway 33, shelter by
American Red Cross.
I Teton Valley Hospital will prac-
tice patient evacuation and setting
up an alternate care facility.
I Courthouse workers will
evacuate to Apple today
EXERCISES, Continued on A5
I Drill areas will be clearly marked to avoid confusion or panic
EARTHQUAKE, Continued on Page A5
I The airports director said he is still
concerned about effects of fuel prices
AIRPORT, Continued on Page A5
Tsunami survivor reunited with family in E. Idaho
Monte LaOrange / mlaorange@postregister.com
Norio Abe was 85 when last years quake and tsunami hit Japans coast, where he lived.
Starting over
I Norio wasnt too excited about
the idea of moving to east Idaho
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TUES DAY
Norio Abe, right, talks about his experience after last years
earthquake and tsunami hit his hometown. His grand-
daughter Miyai Abe Griggs, center, was tasked with con-
vincing him to move to the U.S. and live with his son
Norimasa Abe and daughter-in-law Tsukiko Abe.
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Three Hotshot crews and two water-
toting bucket helicopters were deployed
Saturday night to battle nine small spot
fires that erupted in the Sunbeam area
east of Yankee Fork, where the 123,893-
acre Halstead Fire was burning.
The spot fires, burning within a half-
mile of each other, jumped across to the
east side of Yankee Fork Road, Forest
Service spokesman Eric Mosley said.
By 10 p.m., the helicopters had
returned to base and the fires appeared
under control, Mosley said.
Hotshot crews are considered the elite
of wildland firefighters. Each of the crews
pressed into service Saturday night con-
tains 25 firefighters. They were expected
to remain in the area until early Sunday
morning.
The Yankee Fork area of the Salmon-
Challis National Forest remained under
an evacuation order Saturday night, but
Mosley said no homes or other structures
were immediately threatened.
There are not a lot of structures in the
(spot fire) area, Mosley said. Most of the
homes are south of (state) Highway 75.
While flames remain visible from
Highway 75, the roadway reopened
Saturday and was not threatened by the
spot fires, Mosley said. Nor did smoke
IWinds first helped, then
hampered firefighters at
the Mustang Complex fire.
The Cost of Fire
BY ZACH KYLE
NORTH FORK The bigger
the wildfire, the more shovels,
vehicles and food needed to fight
it.
That also means more comput-
ers, more paperwork, more plan-
ning, and hundreds of other items
and personnel critical to the
effort.
As the growing Mustang
Complex topped the 200,000-acre
mark, the incident center that
sprang up in North Fork grew
with it.
About 800 people were in
camp Thursday. Many will never
see the Mustang. Their jobs
security, parking, technical sup-
port, shower maintenance and
everything else keep firefight-
ers digging fire lines and defend-
ing homes, U.S. Forest Service
spokesman Lynn Ballard said.
You basically create a small
town and try to take care of all
those needs of the firefighters
you put on the ground, he said.
A U.S. map posted in the inci-
dent center was full of pushpins
representing the hometowns of
the transient campers.
Colorful dots spread across
the map. Nearly every state
boasted a pushpin.
Perhaps one was for Tim
Marshall, 38, who runs the 19-
person food crew.
They work for Stewarts
Firefighter Food Catering, which
is based in Pendleton, Ore.
Stewarts contracts with the fed-
eral government. Sometimes,
Stewarts heads to natural disas-
ters such as Hurricane Katrina.
During fire season, Marshalls
and other crews head to fires.
This summer, his crew fed per-
sonnel at fire incident centers in
Rockersville and Edgemont, S.D.
He said the team was home for
four hours before getting orders
to head to McCall.
The Mustang is the crews
fourth fire. Theyve been in North
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Massive crew battles the Mustang Complex fire
I Firefighters need to eat about
7,000 calories a day
SUPPORT, Continued on Page A4
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A meadow near North Fork serves as the temporary home for
personnel fighting the Mustang Complex fire.
BY ALEX STUCKEY
astuckey@postregister.com
F
ederal agencies have spent an
estimated $55.5 million fighting
the three fires Mustang
Complex, Trinity Ridge and Halstead
that have combined to torch more
than 466,000 acres.
And with fire season only halfway
over, it seems it wont be man that
stops this years fires, but winters first
snow.
All told, the fires searing through
Idaho have surpassed 1.1 million acres,
or about 1,700 square miles. Thats
about 200 square miles larger than
Rhode Island.
Its the largest fire season since
2007, when 2.3 million acres burned
statewide, said Emily Anderson, Idaho
Department of Lands spokeswoman.
But with a fire season that could
reach well into October, this years
fires could surpass that acreage,
Anderson said.
Weve been on a trend toward
increasing fires and increasing severi-
ties for quite some time, said Adam
Sowards, a University of Idaho profes-
sor. That is a result of not just the
drought and climate change, but also
because of fire suppression.
State fire officials dont see it com-
ing to an end any time soon.
The bigger the fire gets, the longer
Weve been on a trend toward increasing fires and
increasing severities for quite some time. That is a result of
not just the drought and climate change, but also because of
fire suppression.
ADAM SOWARDS
A University of Idaho professor
As Idaho wildfires get bigger, so does the price of fighting them
I Congress gave about $2.29 billion to
the U.S. Forest Service for fires
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I Gusty winds are expected to drop
significantly today
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Idaho Statesman
Its been a decade since some Mountain
Home airmen made a grisly discovery on
their way to a remote fishing hole on the
Snake River.
Those men found the burned-out shell
of a late 1990s Pontiac Grand Am in the
Elmore County desert. Three bodies were
inside the wreckage, burned beyond
recognition.
What they didnt know
was the charred remains
were those of 29-year-old
Rebecca Ramirez and two
of her sons, 4-year-old
Ricardo and 2-year-old
Miguel.
Rebecca Ramirez and
her sons were shot, killed
and then set on fire most
likely on July 30, 2002 to cover up what
happened. Their remains werent found
until Aug. 11 of that year.
By that time, the man Elmore County
sheriffs deputies say was responsible for
this nightmare circumstance was either
in California or had already left the United
States, helped by family members to get
back to his native Mexico.
On Monday, a jury of Elmore County
residents will begin to determine the fate
of Jorge Alberto Lopez-Orozco a one-
time member of the FBIs 10 Most Wanted
List and the focus of a segment of
Americas Most Wanted TV show.
Orozco, who was on the run for seven
years before he was caught in Mexico in
2009, will spend the next six weeks on trial
for three counts of first-degree murder. If
found guilty, its doubtful he will ever leave
prison again.
Elmore County investigators have said
that Rebecca Ramirez and Lopez-Orozco
had an on-again, off-again affair that was
well-known in the community, though
Lopez-Orozcos wife may not have been
aware of it. Friends of Ramirez say she
planned to end the relationship with
Orozco when she found out he was mar-
ried.
The morning of July 30, 2002, Orozco
picked up Ramirez and her two youngest
from Ramirezs fathers house in Nyssa.
No one saw them again until the grisly dis-
covery almost two weeks later.
Preparing for trial
A group of about 300 prospective jurors
that gathered at the Mountain Home Elks
Lodge earlier this month to fill out ques-
tionnaires about the case has been whit-
tled down to 12 jurists and three alter-
nates.
That jury will hear testimony from
detectives, FBI agents, prisoners who have
talked to Orozco in jail and some of
Ramirezs surviving children. Prosecutors
have a list of about 50 potential witnesses.
IAn Elmore County murder
trial comes more than 10
years after the grisly killing
of a mother and her sons.
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BY RUTH BROWN
rbrown@postregister.com
As Holly Galbraiths
silver Suburban toppled
end over end down the
mountainside, she was
sure she and the seven
girls riding with her
would die.
The morning of Nov. 5,
2011, Galbraiths vehicle
hit a patch of black ice on
Pine Creek pass. Her
2004 Chevrolet swerved
to the left and jumped the
guardrail, sending them
airborne as the vehicle
plummeted off a 150-foot
cliff.
We went end over end
multiple times and the
girls were screaming,
Galbraith said. I remem-
ber going through trees
and bushes and every-
thing went dark because
we were in the dark.
It was terrifying.
The vehicle landed
right-side up, which
Galbraith said was a mir-
acle, but four of the eight
people inside were seri-
ously injured.
When the vehicle final-
ly came to rest, all eight
began to pray.
They were trapped,
disoriented and without
cellphone reception.
I was trying to hold it
together, but I was in a lot
of pain and didnt want to
break down in front of the
girls, Galbraith said.
It wasnt long before
their prayers were
answered. An army of
people had gathered at
the scene. They set up a
system of ropes and pul-
leys and used their man-
power to pull the crash
victims up the steep
mountainside, Galbraith
said.
The rescuers included
Bonneville County
Sheriffs Office backcoun-
try patrol deputies.
Tom Clawson, a mem-
ber of Bonneville
Countys search and res-
cue team, was part of the
response team at
Galbraiths accident. He
remembers the moment
the backcountry deputies
came flying up to the
scene.
Justice
delayed
Orozco
I Orozco was finally captured in Mexico
near the town of Zihuatanejo
DELAYED Continued on Page A5
I Sheriffs backcountry deputies play a different role than those in the city.
Photo courtesy of the Bonneville County Sheriffs Office
Holly Galbraiths Suburban plummeted off a 150-foot cliff after she hit a
patch of black ice near Pine Creek pass on Nov. 5, 2011. The vehicle land-
ed right-side up, which Galbraith said was a miracle, but four of the eight
people inside were seriously injured. The Bonneville County Sheriffs Office
backcountry patrol deputies helped in the rescue.
I Deputies also assist in
searches and rescues
PATROL, Continued on Page A4
Pat Sutphin / psutphin@postregister.com
The Bonneville County backcountry patrol unit poses for a portrait with some of the vehicles it uses for rescues
in Swan Valley.
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BY DAN POPKEY
Idaho Statesman
Last week, Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador
joined Mitt Romneys Spanish-speaking
son on a trip aimed at wooing Hispanic vot-
ers in Colorado and Nevada.
For Romney to win those swing states
and Florida, Labrador said, the presidential
hopeful must best John
McCains 31 percent
share of the Hispanic vote
in 2008 by 5 to 10 points.
Labrador joined Craig
Romney and Hector
Barreto in pitching
Hispanic business groups
in Lakewood, Colo., on
Wednesday and Las Vegas
on Thursday.
Barreto led the Small
Business Administration
under President George W. Bush. The trio
also spoke with Spanish- and English-lan-
guage media, making the case for Romney
on economic grounds.
The message is we cant continue to do
the same things that Obama has been
doing that brought us a higher unemploy-
ment rate, more people in poverty, more
people suffering, Labrador told the
Statesman.
The freshman congressman is part of
Juntos con Romney, or Together with
Romney, and appeared in a national con-
vention video with seven other Hispanic
GOP officials.
Labrador joins other top Idaho
Republicans in doing more than just
endorsements.
Gov. C.L. Butch Otter campaigned for
Romney in Nevada and attended the con-
vention in Tampa. While there, Otter jaw-
boned reporters and delivered a football
signed by Boise State coach Chris Petersen
and his players to Foxs Sean Hannity.
I Romneys ties to Idaho
could give the state some
influence if he wins.
While its only one of
the 17 choices, the
Bureau of Reclamations
Robert Schattin ack-
nowledged the alterna-
tive is in the forefront of
the publics minds be-
cause of the dams fatal
failure 36 years ago.
We like to focus on
how broad this study is,
Schattin said. But I
know everyone wants to
focus on Teton Dam.
He said the topics
passion is illustrated in
the number of people
who attend meetings.
Normally, its a handful,
but thats not the case
with the Teton Dam on
the table.
We have 45 to 50
people coming to every
meeting. We have irriga-
tors from irrigation com-
panies, as well as people
from state and federal
agencies. Weve been
very pleased at the pro-
fessional level of the
local work groups that
are participating.
The dams 1976 fail-
ure killed 11 people, trig-
gered 200 landslides and
caused $2 billion in
property damage.
Its impossible to
determine whether re-
building Teton Dam
would be best for water
users, Trout Unlimiteds
Idaho Water Project
Director Kim Trotter
said, because Recla-
mation has not said how
much water storage is
needed.
This is a big point for
us because they havent,
to date, been able to
quantify how much
theyre trying to store or
save in the system, she
said. Are we saying our
needs are endless? ... Do
we need 100,000 acre-
feet of storage? A mil-
lion? Are we trying to
meet the needs of people
just within the basin?
Are we trying to meet
needs of irrigators? The
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Rebuilding the Teton Dam is one of 17 alternatives to
increasing available water supplies in the Henrys Fork Basin
Damming
Alternatives
BY CHRISTINA LORDS
clords@postregister.com
irst there were as many as 40
options on the table.
Those were whittled down to
17.
Now, the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation aims to further
reduce the number of viable
options to increase available water sup-
plies in the Henrys Fork Basin. The
results will be available in an interim
report that should be made public next
month.
Rebuilding the Teton Dam is among
the alternatives.
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I The idea of rebuilding the Teton Dam is a scary
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Robert Bower file / rbower@postregister.com
Engineers and scientists pilot a small boat toward the remains of the Teton Dam after its failure in
1976. The dams reservoir was being filled for the first time when it failed and released a flood that
impacted much of eastern Idaho.
I Some say building more
dams is not the answer
TETON, Continued on Page A4
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in high
places
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I Claims of
Romney
taxes theft a
mystery / A7
I Campaign
ad spending
only going to
get worse / A6
I Mitt Romney has raised an estimated
$3.2 million from Idahoans for his campaign
ROMNEY, Continued on Page A3
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BY BILL ROBERTS
Idaho Statesman
In June 2009, as Idahos unemploy-
ment rate hit 7.4 percent and foreclosures
seemed to gobble up whole subdivisions,
Moodys Analytics delivered some hope.
Idaho, the economic analysis firm said,
would be one of five states to lead the
country out of recession, albeit slowly.
And life would start to improve by 2010.
By the third quarter of this year,
employment in Boise would be at prere-
cession levels, Moodys predicted. The
states tech industry, hit by layoffs of 3,500
Micron Technology Inc. employees in
Boise in 2008 and 2009, would be revived.
And the state would cash in on its popula-
tion growth, which helped it during boom
times.
Thats not how it turned out.
In 2011, Idaho averaged 49,400 tech
jobs, 51 more jobs than in 2009, according
to the Idaho Department of Labor.
Idahos population grew less than 1
percent in 2011, far off the 2 to 3 percent
the state averaged in prerecession years.
As for Boise getting back to prereces-
sion employment by the third quarter of
this year? Moodys now says it could be
mid-2014.
Boise is outperforming the country in
job creation, said Timothy Daigle, who fol-
lows Idaho for Moodys Analytics. But
overall job creation is kind of disappoint-
ing. Everything is happening slower than
we originally thought.
Moodys wasnt the only forecaster to
miss Idahos mark. Here is a look at what
forecasters said then and how those
forecasts look today.
Who missed the recession
The states April 2007 economic fore-
cast projected through 2010. Derek
Santos, now the states chief economist,
wrote then, Idahos housing starts will
not collapse over the forecast period.
I State prognosticators say
they have learned lessons
on how to foresee
the next financial abyss.
Health and Fitness
Workout routines have replaced prescription medications for some
local residents. Read their stories in Health & Fitness. G1
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Salmon chiropractor
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and their pets D1
Spudlicious day
A throng of people attended the Spud
Day celebration in Shelley C1
BSU bounces back
Boise State recovers from
a season-opening loss
to beat Miami (Ohio) B1
Signed into law March 23, 2010,
the law is being phased in and wont
be fully enacted until Jan. 1, 2015.
The health care reform package
does many things, as outlined in the
lengthy legislation that totals more
than 900 pages.
Following are a few highlights,
based on information provided by
Idaho Falls attorney John Simmons,
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Found-
ation, The National Conference of
State Legislatures and www.health
care.gov.
Once fully enacted, health care
reform will:
I Require most people to buy
health insurance coverage by 2014.
There are exceptions for members
of religious faiths that oppose health
coverage, American Indian tribes
and individuals who do not earn
enough to file a tax return (less than
$9,350 in 2010 when the law was
passed).
I Require larger companies
(those with 50 full-time equivalent
employees or more) to provide
insurance for their employees.
I Impose financial penalties on
many individuals and larger busi-
nesses that do not buy insurance
and comply with mandates.
I Create heath insurance
exchanges online sites where
families and businesses may go to
compare coverage side-by-side and
purchase insurance.
I Expand Medicaid eligibility to
patients at 133 percent of the pover-
ty level (about $14,000 for an indi-
vidual).
I Prevent insurance companies
from placing lifetime or annual lim-
its on the amount of money they
spend on patient benefits.
I Prevent insurance companies
from declining coverage based on
pre-existing medical conditions or a
patients gender.
I Cap the cost of insurance pre-
miums offered through employers at
9.5 percent of the employees
income.
I Offer tax credits to help many
individuals pay for insurance premi-
ums. Credits will be available for
people at up to 400 percent of the
poverty level (about $43,000 for an
individual, about $88,000 for a fami-
ly of four).
I Allow parents to keep depend-
ent children enrolled in their health
insurance plan through age 26
regardless of college or marital sta-
tus so long as the child does not
have access to insurance through an
employer.
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What will it cost?
Will my premiums go up?
Do I have to have health insurance?
What does it mean for my small business?
When does it start?
What does it mean for my family?
What does it cover?
What if I cant afford
health insurance?
How do I learn more?
What does it
mean for Idaho?
Can I keep my adult
children on my policy?
ts legal name is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Some people call it Obamacare, often pejoratively, in reference to
President Barack Obama, who pushed it through Congress.
In a 5-4 ruling, United States Supreme Court justices declared it
constitutional.
Whatever your preferred term, there is no denying Obamas reform
package is changing health care for families and businesses.
BY CLARK CORBIN ccorbin@postregister.com
I
I Some say the new law does not go
far enough to provide affordable care
HEALTHCARE, Continued on Page A4
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the mark
I More Idaho data than federal date now
goes into the forecasting mechanism
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Drug bust
Two Nampa residents
arrested for meth and
marijuana in I.F. B5
Millionth visitor
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Masterstrokes
John Stillwell / Associated Press
The Olympic flame is lit during the Opening
Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Summer Games at
the Olympic Stadium in London on Friday.
EIRMC is 1 of only 2 Idaho hospitals with
Advanced Certification for stroke treatment
Robert Bower / rbower@postregister.com
Dr. Chris Harker, right, shows Evona Young how a team at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center
restored the flow of blood to her brain after she had a stroke in January.
A brilliant
beginning
LONDON (AP) The
queen and James Bond
gave the London Olympics
a royal entrance like no
other Friday in an opening
ceremony that rolled to the
rock of the Beatles, the
Stones and The Who.
And the creative genius
of Danny Boyle spliced it all
together.
Brilliant. Cheeky, too.
The highlight of the
Oscar-winning directors
$42 million show was pure
movie magic, using trickery
to make it seem that Brit-
ains beloved 86-year-old
Queen Elizabeth II had
parachuted into the stadi-
um with the nations most
famous spy.
A short film showed
Daniel Craig as 007 driving
to Buckingham Palace in a
black London cab and, pur-
sued by the royal corgis,
meeting the queen, who
played herself.
Good evening, Mr.
Bond, she said.
They were shown flying
in a helicopter over London
landmarks and a waving
statue of Winston Churchill
the queen in a salmon-
colored dress, Bond dash-
ing as ever in a black tuxe-
do before leaping into
the inky night over Olympic
Park.
At the same moment,
real skydivers appeared as
the stadium throbbed to the
James Bond theme. And
moments after that, the
monarch appeared in per-
son, accompanied by her
husband, Prince Philip.
Organizers said it was
thought to be the first time
she has acted on film.
The queen made her-
self more accessible than
ever before, Boyle said.
In the stadium, Eliza-
beth stood solemnly while a
childrens choir serenaded
her with God Save the
Queen, and members of
the Royal Navy, Army and
Royal Air Force raised the
Union Jack.
Boyle sprang another
giant surprise and picked
seven teenage athletes for
the supreme honor of ignit-
I Doctors use a dissolving agent to attack dangerous brain clots.
BY ZACH KYLE
Evona Young of Pinegree felt a lit-
tle incredulous as she stared at the
projection of the blocked blood ves-
sel in her brain Thursday.
Chris Harker, an interventional
radiologist at Eastern Idaho Region-
al Medical Center, pointed at where
the blood clot lodged in the vein,
causing a stroke.
Its a little freaky, said Young,
56. I just thank God that I came
here.
Strokes are scary business and
can cause brain damage, permanent
disability and death.
No stroke is a good stroke, but if
it does happen, Harker said EIRMC
is the place to be.
No other regional hospital could
have treated Young as effectively, he
said.
Within 20 minutes of reaching the
hospital, a CT scan revealed the clot
in the left side of her brain. In anoth-
er 15 minutes, doctors snaked a
micro catheter into Youngs brain
through the cerebral artery.
A dissolving agent was released
that attacked the clot and restored
flow to the oxygen-starved portion of
Youngs brain.
The hospital boasts a handful of
high-tech devices that remove or
destroy clots and experts such as
Harker trained to use them. Thats
why EIRMC was given the Gold Seal
of Approval by the Joint Commis-
sion, an independent health care
facility certification group.
The hospital also was granted Ad-
vanced Certification as a Primary
Stroke Center.
Portneuf Medical Center in Poca-
tello and Bingham Memorial in
Blackfoot also have received gold
seals, but EIRMC is the only Idaho
hospital outside of Boise with
Advanced Certification.
(The certification) means the
hospital is following the best prac-
tices for stroke care, commission
spokeswoman Elizabeth Zhani said.
They have to meet (stringent) re-
quirements.
The best doctors and gadgets are
worthless if a stroke patient doesnt
reach the hospital.
Time is of the essence. Patients
must arrive at a hospital within three
hours of suffering the stroke in order
to receive in-brain treatment like
Young did, Harker said.
The brain deteriorates more rap-
idly about six hours after onset. The
situation is exacerbated if the clot is
located in the brain stem or a major
Blackfoot School District to offer Shoshoni classes
BLACKFOOT (AP) Seeking
to preserve the heritage of the
Shoshoni, the Blackfoot School
District has decided to offer class-
es in Shoshoni language and cul-
ture.
The districts governing board
met Thursday and said the cours-
es will be offered at Blackfoot
High School during the upcoming
school year. The classes are part
of efforts to preserve the Sho-
shoni language among youths,
board member Peter Lipovac
said.
The Shoshoni classes are the
result of a statewide push to help
save Shoshoni language and cul-
ture in the state, Lipovac told the
Idaho State Journal.
Tribal members petitioned
early this year to build a Shoshoni
charter school for students in kin-
dergarten through sixth grades
but that effort failed to gain trac-
tion in Bingham and Bannock
counties, where the Blackfoot and
Pocatello school districts declined
to provide funding.
Charter schools are funded
with public money but given
more freedom in how they oper-
ate and often have a particular
focus.
Our decision to implement
the classes isnt the direct result
of the Shoshoni charter school
failing to get approved here,
Lipovac said.
The proposal to build a Sho-
shoni charter school in Fort Hall
is still alive.
Proposed charter schools can
seek approval through their local
school districts, or through
Idahos Public Charter School
Commission, which falls under
the state Board of Education.
Thats where tribal members
have taken their petition.
State officials are expected to
reach a decision by the end of
September.
The Shoshoni language of-
fered at Blackfoot High School
will not be as concentrated at
those proposed at the Fort Hall
charter school, Lipovac said.
The courses at Blackfoot
High will not be immersion cours-
es, Lipovac said. An immersion
course is when the course materi-
al is taught in the language being
learned. The Fort Hall charter
school is proposed to be an
immersion school.
The Shoshoni
classes are the result
of a statewide push to
help save Shoshoni
language and culture
in the state.
PETER LIPOVAC
Blackfoot school board
member
Toby Melville / Associated Press
Britains Queen Eliza-
beth II, center, Prince
Philip, right, and IOC
President Jacques
Rogge, left, attend the
Opening Ceremony of
the 2012 Olympic Sum-
mer Games at the Olym-
pic Stadium in London
on Friday.
IThe Opening
Ceremony kicked
off the London
Olympics with
royalty and rock.
Stroke symptoms
Time is of the essence in
stroke treatment. Call 911 imme-
diately if you or someone else
experiences the following symp-
toms:
I Sudden numbness, tingling,
weakness or loss of movement in
the face, arm or leg, especially on
the left side of your body.
I Blurred vision.
I Slurred or garbled speech.
I Confusion or trouble under-
standing simple statements.
I Sudden problems with bal-
ance or walking.
I The hospital has received 206
stroke patients in the past 12 months
STROKES, Continued on Page A5
I Paul McCartney closed
the show with Hey Jude
BRILLIANT, Continued on Page A5
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at Melaleuca Field
208-522-8363
or online at
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Idaho Statesman
The Boy Scouts of America documented
numerous incidents of sexually abusive
scoutmasters, but for years they continued to
move freely within the organizations ranks.
The so-called perversion files, made pub-
lic for the first time last month, show it was
common for pedophiles to move from one
troop to another because the secretive nature
of the documents made it difficult for Scout
officials to know who had been in trouble
elsewhere.
Leaders also could leave Scouting and get
involved in other youth activities anywhere in
the country because there was no way for
other organizations to access the files,
which the Scouts
had kept since at
least 1920.
Earlier this
month, a federal
lawsuit was settled
involving a man
who claimed he was
sexually abused
while a member of
a Boy Scout troop
in Nampa. The case
dated back to the
mid-1960s and
early 1970s.
At issue was not
the alleged sexual
abuse by Scout-
master Larren B.
Arnold, but what
Oregon attorney
Gilion Dumas
described as institu-
tional fraud by the
national Scouting
organization, Ore-
Ida Council of the
Boy Scouts and The
Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day
Saints.
Dumas crafted
the legal argument
after reviewing
thousands of docu-
ments released by
the Boy Scouts in response to another lawsuit
filed by the law firm for which she works in
Oregon.
The lawsuit contended the organizations
portrayed Scouting as a safe place for boys
despite knowledge of a pedophilia epidemic
within its leadership ranks.
Dumas represented the man who filed the
lawsuit, described only as Tom Doe in court
documents.
Everyone involved in the case agreed not
to disclose details of the settlement. The law-
suit originally sought $5 million. A document
filed Nov. 15 in U.S. District Court in Boise
indicated that both sides agreed to an undis-
closed monetary settlement.
Lawyers for the church and Ore-Ida
Council were not available for comment
Friday.
I Boy Scouts secret files on
pedophilia date back to 1920s.
Substance abuse a contributing factor in up
to 80 percent of Idaho foster care cases
Love is a battlefield
But Taylor Swift soldiers on: PARADE
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Salmon veteran
works to start a food
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Christmas quest
Hundreds hunt around eastern Idaho
for the perfect fresh-cut pine C1
Called it
Kimber Call is our
2012 Volleyball Player
of the Year B1
EDITORS NOTE: This is the 11th
installment of a yearlong series
examining the effects of addiction.
BY CHRISTINA LORDS
clords@postregister.com
The tentacles of a substance
abusers addiction also wrap
themselves around his or her
family, friends and co-workers.
But its difficult to argue that
anyone is more adversely affect-
ed than the children of addicts.
That reality is evident within
Idahos foster care system.
Substance abuse is a con-
tributing factor in up to 80 per-
cent of the cases of Idaho chil-
dren entering foster care every
year.
According to the Adoption and
Foster Care Analysis and
Reporting System, for every
1,000 children in the state in
2010, an average of 3.3 entered
foster care.
That means up to 1,110 chil-
dren of the 1,388 who entered
foster care in 2010 were affected
by substance abuse.
Too many Idaho children are
dependent on drug- or alcohol-
abusing parents who, because of
their addiction, are incapable of
properly caring for their children,
according to Department of
Health and Welfare Child Welfare
program specialist Valerie
Burgess and treatment providers
throughout the state.
The problem is complex and
cannot be solved without more
funding.
Finding funding
Substance-abuse treatment
funding for parents with children
in foster care is becoming harder
and harder to come by, Burgess
said.
The problem is were not the
only program wanting substance-
abuse funding, she said. It gets
really hard to provide treatment
when 80 percent of your families
have substance abuse, one way
or another, in the mix. Clearly
Extra insight
Jan. 29: Consequences of meth
felt across society
tinyurl.com/addiction-part-1
Feb. 26: Abuse of prescription
drugs is a local, national problem
March 25: Movies, ads mask
truth about alcohol abuse
April 29: Former drug abuser
focusing on staying clean
May 27: Slow suicide: Battle
with alcoholism takes toll on I.F.
woman
June 24: Meth, crack addiction
gripped womans life for nearly
three decades
July 29: Sobering Story: I.F.
man recovering from alcohol addic-
tion
Aug. 26: Breaking bad habits
Sept. 30: A different approach
Oct. 28: Meth from Mexico pres-
ents new challenges in drug war
tinyurl.com/pr-mexico-meth
I Eastern Idaho lacks treatment
funding and treatment facilities
FOSTER, Continued on Page A4
Scout
secrets
Extra insight
I Nov. 16:
Settlement
reached in Boy
Scouts abuse
case
http://tinyurl.com/a
buse-settlement
I Read the Boy
Scouts statement
www.scouting.org/s
itecore/content/BS
AYouthProtection/B
SA_Communication
s/IVFileStatement.a
spx
I In 1966, at least 1,000 files existed that
pertained to adults abusing young Scouts
SCOUTING, Continued on Page A3
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Learn the lingo:
Mars terminology
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) Fascinated
by NASAs latest Mars mission and plan-
ning to tune in?
Well, good luck understanding the
space agencys everyday lingo, which
resembles a sort of Martian alphabet soup.
In the highly specialized world of space-
craft engineering, there are many moving
parts and pieces not to mention
processes. Names and descriptions are
often reduced to acronyms and abbrevia-
tions, which are faster to string together in
a sentence but can end up sounding
downright alien.
So if you want to know whether MSL
will nail the EDL and what it can do on dif-
ferent sols, you have to learn the language.
BY ZACH KYLE
N
obody knows what secrets
NASAs Mars rover Curiosity will
uncover after it lands on the Red
Planet if all goes as planned at
11:31 p.m. Sunday.
About the size of a car, Curiosity will
roam a crater, taking and analyzing
samples that could uncover traces of
life, water and other mysteries.
The electricity powering Curiositys
two-year mission traces back to eastern
Idaho and a team at Idaho National
Laboratory.
In simple terms, Curiosity runs, in
part, on a $100 million nuclear battery
developed at the lab, said Stephen
Johnson, division director of Space
Nuclear Systems and Technology.
The 2-foot-tall, 2-foot in diameter
cylinder aboard Curiosity is packed with
radioactive isotopes generating heat.
That thermal energy is converted into
the electricity fueling Curiositys wheels,
arms and other gadgets, as well as
recharging its bank of lithium-ion bat-
teries.
In technical terms,
its called a Multi-
Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric
Generator.
People call it a battery,
but its actually a power sys-
tem because it doesnt need
IThe success of NASAs Mars rover Curiosity, which lands Sunday,
will trace back to a team at INL that developed its nuclear power system.
Beck
cleared
of fraud
IA jury found Bonneville
GOP leader Doyle Beck
innocent of improperly
profiting from the Daren
Palmer Ponzi scheme.
BY MIKE MOONEY
mmooney@postregister.com
Idaho Falls businessman and
Bonneville County Republican Party
leader Doyle Beck was cleared of fraud
Friday in connection with a lawsuit
claiming he had improperly profited
from Daren Palmers illegal Ponzi
scheme.
It was a great result for Mr. Beck,
defense attorney Bryan Smith said. The
jury found that he didnt engage in fraud
and (that) he had acted in good faith.
In February 2010, court receiver
Wayne Klein sued Doyle Beck in federal
court, alleging Beck received $555,000 in
improper and fraudulent payments from
Palmers company, Trigon Group,
through Palmers brother-in-law, Duane
Yost. Beck denied the accusations, claim-
ing he never personally dealt with
Palmer or Trigon.
The civil lawsuit played out this week
in U.S. District Court in Pocatello.
Reached after the verdict Friday,
Klein said the lawsuit never claimed
Beck had engaged in fraudulent activi-
ties. Instead, Klein said the fraudulent
activity occurred when Trigon trans-
ferred money to Yost.
We proved that the $555,000 came
Larry Craig
defends his
campaign
money use
IThe FEC is suing the
former senator for using
elections funds for personal
use during the defense
of his 2007 sex-sting bust.
JOHN MILLER
Associated Press
BOISE Former Republican U.S.
Sen. Larry Craig aims to fend off a fed-
eral election lawsuit
against him by arguing
his infamous July 11,
2007, Minneapolis airport
bathroom visit that ended
in his sex-sting arrest was
part of his official Senate
business.
Craig is hoping to
avoid repaying $217,000
in campaign funds the
Federal Election Commission says he
misused to defend himself.
The FEC sued Craig in June in U.S.
District Court in Washington, D.C., alleg-
ing he converted the campaign money to
personal use by spending it on his legal
defense after he was accused of solicit-
ing sex in a Minneapolis-St. Paul
International Airport bathroom. The
Craig
I Craig cites a U.S. Senate rule on reim-
bursable per diem expenses in his defense
CRAIG, Continued on Page A5
I Ultimately, the jury did decide that Beck
should repay only $55,000
BECK, Continued on Page A5
Degree of difficulty
The capsule holding the
NASA Mars rover Curiosity
will enter the Red Planets
atmosphere at 2,000 mph.
The capsule will undergo a
complex process involving a
parachute and rockets before
hovering above the surface
and setting the rover down on
a tether. Check out NASAs
video about the landing at
tinyurl.com/curiositylanding.
I 6 years spent on project
MARS, Continued on Page A5
I Lingo is even jarring to other scientists
LINGO, Continued on Page A5
Stephen Johnson, director of Space Nuclear Systems and Technology at Idaho National Laboratory, describes some
of the testing procedures involved with the radioisotope power generator that was built and tested at INL.
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Artists rendering of Mars rover Curiosity
Associated Press
INSIDE
I A detailed look at Curiosity
and 5 things you might not
know about Mars: A5
I NASA picks 3 companies to
provide space transport: A3
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August 4, 2012 www.postregister.com
Schizophrenia
One familys struggle
with mental illness
Coming Sunday
Shortcut closed
Developer shuts off Bellin Road
shortcut on west side of town B5
Supreme reign
Phelps looks to close
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MISSION TO
MARS
INL nuclear power system heart of Mars rover
BY VINCE DEVLIN
The Missoulian
MISSOULA, Mont. The opening
and closing lines of Norman Macleans
A River Runs Through It are among
the most beautiful words ever strung
together.
Robert Redford knew it, and as he
turned the novella into cinema back in
1991, there was no question the director
would open and close with
Macleans words:
In our family, there was no clear line
between religion and fly fishing.
When actors Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt
and Tom Skerritt were done portraying
Norman and his family on film, the nar-
rator would finish with a lone old man
in a river:
(But when I am alone) in the half-
light of the canyon, all existence fades to
a being with my soul and memories and
the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River
and a four-count rhythm and the hope
that a fish will rise.
Eventually, all things merge into one,
and a river runs through it. The river
was cut by the worlds great flood and
runs over rocks from the basement of
time. On some of the rocks are timeless
raindrops. Under the rocks are the
words, and some of the words are
theirs.
The narrator pauses before repeating
Macleans last line:
I am haunted by waters.
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A RIVER STILL RUNS
THROUGH IT
Courtesy James Nelson / MtnSportsPhoto.com
An angler fly-fishes for trout during an autumn day on the upper Blackfoot River within the Blackfoot River Wildlife
Management Area in eastern Idaho.
The Montana-based film
brought enthusiasts from
around the world to
the Yellowstone region.
BY ZACH KYLE
Fly-fishing, of course, existed in eastern
Idaho before A River Runs Through It hit
the silver screen in 1992.
But the movie brought an influx of out-
of-state anglers to the area and helped
support two of the areas oldest fly shops.
Henrys Fork Anglers in Island Park
opened in 1977.
Jimmy Gabettas, owner of Jimmys All
Seasons Angler in Idaho Falls, opened his
first fly shop in Pocatello in 1979.
Gabettas said River didnt affect
locals who always knew the fly-fishing
here was stellar. But the movie drew a gen-
eration of out-of-state fly-fishermen to
BY ALEX STUCKEY
Americans think little of flicking
on a light or cranking up the air con-
ditioning.
That is, until the power goes out
or electricity prices go up.
To prevent either of those things
from happening, a continued
emphasis needs to be placed on
nuclear energy, said Marv Fertel,
Nuclear Energy Institute president
and chief executive officer.
Electricity is the lifeblood of civ-
ilization, Fertel said. We need to
continue to provide electricity, and
we need to do it without air pollu-
tants. (Nuclear energy) will be a big
player.
Fertel was just one of many
nuclear experts to present their sug-
gestions to Gov. C.L. Butch Otters
Leadership in Nuclear Energy
Commission on Friday.
Commission members are
charged with making recommenda-
tions to Otter about how to keep
Idaho National Laboratory, as well
as the states broader nuclear indus-
try, relevant.
The importance of safety,
research capabilities and cybersecu-
rity were common themes shared by
the speakers.
To improve the countrys focus
on nuclear energy, both Fertel and
Kristine Svinicki, a commissioner
for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, said developing even
safer storage techniques for spent
fuel and nuclear waste is key.
And the labs testing capabilities
make it an important resource in the
advancement of nuclear energy. It
allows computer models developed
at universities to be tested.
It is beneficial for nuclear power
going forward, Svinicki said.
Westinghouses nuclear division
relies on INLs research facilities in
its work, said John Goossen, the
companys vice president of innova-
tion and small modular reactor
development.
We dont have the research facil-
ities we used to have, Goossen said.
INL helps fill the gap.
Shrinking governmental budgets
make such tests increasingly diffi-
cult, so Fertel urged the commission
IThe LINE Commission
heard from top experts
about safety, research
and cybersecurity during
a meeting Friday held
in Idaho Falls.
River bolstered local
fly-shop economy
Experts
discuss
nuclear
energy
Extra insight
I Feb. 2 Panel will explore
role of nuclear energy in ID
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Commission-created
I May 17 Commission eye-
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tinyurl.com/INL-tours
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ownership of lab
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one of the big topics at the meeting
LINE, Continued on Page A5
I The interest in the sport was good for
business, but it also meant more anglers
FLY-FISHING Continued on Page A3
I The fly-fishing industry saw a 60
percent increase when the movie came out
RIVER, Continued on Page A3
Michael Gallacher / Missoulian
John Maclean has been fishing all his life. You could say fishing is in his
blood. Johns father, Norman Maclean, who wrote River Runs Through It
called his son John, one of the finest fisherman, Im sure, of his generation.
So it was with great regret back in 2005, that John accidentally killed the
largest cutthroat trout he had ever caught. It has bothered him ever since.
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BY DAN POPKEY
Idaho Statesman
The fears of supporters of
Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom
Lunas 2011 school reforms were realized
in a new poll conducted for the Idaho
Statesman.
Propositions 1
and 2 were close
Prop. 1 trailed
by 4 percentage
points while
Prop. 2 was
ahead by 3
points. Prop. 3
was behind by 7
points.
But relatively
high numbers of
voters remained
undecided - a
bad sign for
Luna, Mason-
Dixon pollster
Brad Coker said.
Those voters
typically break
by a 3-to-1 or 4-
to-1 margin for
the no vote.
The fact that
all the results are
close is mislead-
ing, Coker said.
The truth is that
all three face a
stiff uphill battle.
All things being
equal, they are
likely to lose by
margins much
larger than what
these numbers
show.
Coker pointed
to lukewarm
support among
Lunas fellow
Republicans for
the laws that
erase union bar-
gaining rights,
provide bonuses
to about 80 percent of teachers and man-
date online courses and laptops for every
high school student.
Proponents are going to have to out-
spend the opponents by a large margin to
convince Republican voters to get behind
these propositions.
Through Sept. 30, proposition oppo-
nents raised more money than propo-
nents, $1.38 million to $501,000.
That news prompted Melaleuca CEO
Frank VanderSloot, whos already spent
more than $200,000, to say hell boost his
IA poll shows that support
is soft for Props 1, 2 and 3.
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EDITORS NOTE: Todays articles are the
final installments in a four-article series pre-
viewing Propositions 1, 2 and 3 in advance of
Election Day.
BY CLARK CORBIN
Tom Luna and Mike Lanza are two of
the most visible faces in the Students
Come First debate leading up to Election
Day.
Luna, Idaho superintendent of public
instruction, is the architect of the three
education reform laws that lawmakers
approved during a contentious 2011 ses-
sion.
Lanza, co-founder of Idaho Parents
and Teachers Together and chairman of
Vote No on Propositions 1, 2, 3, leads with
the advocacy groups trying to convince
voters to dismantle the three laws Nov. 6.
Both participated in multiple inter-
views with the Post Register over the past
two months, describing the laws and their
effect on teachers, students and class-
rooms. Their responses, edited for length,
follow.
TOM LUNA
Idaho superintendent of public instruction
POST REGISTER: What does a vote to
keep the three Students Come First meas-
ures mean?
TOM LUNA: It means were continu-
ing down the path we started on almost
two years ago to bring the education sys-
tem into the 21st century, compensate
teachers based not only on how long they
have taught or how much education they
have accumulated. They will be eligible to
earn bonuses of up to $8,000. It means we
will restore local control so local school
boards and administrators have the
authority to manage their school district,
where that wasnt the case in the past. It
brings all of our education system into the
21st century.
So, its business as usual, plowing
ahead as outlined by the laws passed in
2011.
Ed laws
face an
uphill
battle
About the poll
I Mason-Dixon
Polling & Research
of Washington,
D.C., conducted
the poll Monday
through Wednes-
day, interviewing
625 voters who
said they were like-
ly to vote in the
Nov. 6 election.
I Those inter-
viewed were
selected from a
phone-matched
Idaho voter regis-
tration list that
included land lines
and cellphones.
I The margin
for error is no more
than plus or minus
4 percentage
points. This means
that there is a 95
percent probability
that the true fig-
ure would fall with-
in that range if the
entire population
were sampled.
I Support for the propositions is higher
among Republicans than Democrats
POLL, Continued on Page A4
IDAHOS STUDENTS COME FIRST
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ITom Luna gives his case for keeping the laws and Mike Lanza gives his reasons for repeals.
I Both Luna and Lanza think there will be
a big turnout during the Nov. 6 election
Q&A, Continued on Page A3
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ANSWERS
Monte LaOrange file / mlaorange@postregister.com
Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna is touring the state in advance of Election Day to explain the
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BY DAN POPKEY
Idaho Statesman
Since his landslide re-election,
Gov. C.L. Butch Otter is spend-
ing significantly less time in the
office.
Otter, 69, typi-
cally doesnt come
to the office on
Mondays, instead
scheduling gener-
al office time
with no appoint-
ments. He works
from home,
according to a for-
mer chief of staff.
Comparing 12-month periods
from Otters third year in office to
his fifth year, an Idaho Statesman
analysis shows:
I 27 percent fewer appoint-
ments, both official and unoffi-
cial.
I 29 percent fewer hours
scheduled for those appoint-
ments.
I 33 percent less time spent
traveling for official and unoffi-
cial purposes, both in Idaho and
elsewhere.
I 28 percent increase in per-
sonal and vacation days, with 41
days off during the business week
in the past 12 months.
The analysis is based on three
years of scheduling records, from
Nov. 1, 2008, to Oct. 31, 2011, ob-
tained under Idahos public
records law.
The Statesman provided the
governor with its analysis of his
records, but he declined repeated
requests for comment, beginning
in mid-November. Otters spokes-
man, Jon Hanian, also would not
comment on Otters workload but
did not dispute the findings.
Planning a third term
Otter surprised a crowd in
Coeur dAlene on Dec. 14 with an
exceptionally early announce-
ment: Hell run again in 2014.
It surprised me, it surprised a
lot of people, said his two-time
campaign manager, Debbie Field.
Otter made the statement at a
campaign fundraiser. In the last
finance reporting period, Otters
campaign owed him $206,000 for
loans he made to support his 2010
re-election.
Field scoffed at speculation
that Otter would be re-elected a
third time and then resign to
hand the job to a man he appoint-
ed, Lt. Gov. Brad Little.
You do not as a candidate
work this hard and then turn it
over to someone else, Field said.
I will tell you he feels really
great.
Little said he and Otter never
have discussed Otter resigning:
No. None. Zero. Not even close.
Public awareness of Otters
schedule has risen in recent
weeks with news that he sent
Little on a trade mission to Brazil
and Mexico last month while he
vacationed at the National Finals
Rodeo in Las Vegas.
Otter also spent a week in
Hawaii and a week in Florida in
November, but those trips would-
nt count as vacation under the
Statesman analysis Otter was
I Otters schedule
shows fewer work
hours, business travel
and appointments
in his second term.
BY CLARK CORBIN
B
OISE With the 2012 legislative ses-
sion set to kick off Monday, lawmakers
are digging in for a $20 million battle
they expect will define the upcoming session.
During the weeks ahead, legislators will
consider whether to launch a key component
of the federal health care package champi-
oned by President Barack Obama.
In late 2011, Idaho received
a $20.3 million federal grant to
create a state health insurance
exchange. The exchange, part
of the federal health care plan,
essentially is a website that
business owners and families
can visit to compare health in-
surance plans, coverage and
prices.
It sounds innocent enough.
The $20.3 million is there to
help Idaho officials create the
exchange. The program is mar-
keted as a way to reduce health
care costs and give people
more control over their bene-
fits and expenses.
Using the exchange also is
optional. Families that already
have health insurance could
keep their existing coverage.
Additionally, anyone could choose to buy cov-
erage from a local insurance agent.
So, why the controversy?
In 2010, Idaho lawmakers joined their
counterparts in more than a dozen states in
suing the federal government over the heath
care plan, arguing that aspects of the package
are unconstitutional.
Members of the Republican supermajority
in the Idaho Legislature dont often smile on
federal mandates especially the health care
package.
The real debate on the health insurance
exchange is going to be in the House, Idaho
Falls Rep. Erik Simpson said. We have a very
diverse group of Republicans in the House
and a growing, powerful conservative move-
ment.
The far-right movement within the House,
which includes Simpson, is expected to offer
the most resistance to creating a state
exchange.
If lawmakers dont create the exchange,
they would be refusing the $20.3 million and
would be forced to accept whatever exchange
system the federal government creates for
states that choose not to comply with the law.
An executive with the states top business
lobbying organization warned that failure to
use the $20.3 million and create a state
exchange could cost the state jobs and hurt
small businesses.
Idaho Association of Commerce and
Industry President Alex LaBeau has urged
lawmakers to set aside concerns about
Obamas health care package and get to work.
A federal exchange, over which Idaho has
no control, gives employers less certainty in
the marketplace, LaBeau said Thursday. We
employers do not like uncertainty. We dont
like to question how much our employees are
going to cost us.
Gov. C.L. Butch Otter said if the state
accepts a federal exchange, then Idaho-based
insurance carriers could be left out of the pro-
gram, jeopardizing job security for thousands
of local agents.
Otter also warned last week that failure to
create the state exchange could cost Idaho
$300 million in federal matching Medicaid
funds a hit that could be handed down in
the form of a penalty from the feds.
We would either have to raise taxes,
which I see no appetite for that, or we would
have to cut (spending) from someplace else,
Otter said.
Idaho Falls Republican Rep. Linden
Bateman said hes inclined to support a state-
based exchange, though he does not approve
of the federal health care package. Bateman
said he also could be persuaded to vote
against a state exchange.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to
consider lawsuits filed by Idaho and other
states in March.
Im going to keep an open mind, because
this is really important, Bateman said. If
there is any indication our actions would
weaken our case before the Supreme Court, I
will oppose it.
DOLLARS AND CENTS
While insurance may prove to be the issue
of the season, the state budget is a perennial
top priority. During the past
three years, legislators
shunned attempts to raise new
revenue in a slumping econo-
my and passed along deep cuts
to nearly every state program,
including public schools and
therapies for the mentally ill.
Rexburg Republican Sen.
Brent Hill said he doesnt think
new spending cuts are in order.
The economy is improving, albeit very,
very slowly, Hill said. I hope and think well
see the end of additional cuts and, hopefully,
I Lawmakers will kick off the 2012 session Monday in Boise.
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t was a challenging, and, at
times, violent year in Idaho
Falls and across eastern
Idaho.
A quadruple murder and sui-
cide in Ammon, the execution of
an eastern Idaho serial killer and
police-involved shootings in
Idaho Falls top the Post
Registers list of 2011s most
compelling stories.
Although the violence that
played out on city streets and
usually quiet neighborhoods was
unprecedented, there were some
bright spots as well.
Here is the Post Registers
Top 10 Stories of 2011, as voted
by the newspapers staff.
MURDERS/SUICIDE
IN AMMON
While residents of a nor-
mally peaceful Ammon
subdivision slept during
the early morning hours of
May 13, Gaylin Leirmoe went to
the home where his ex-girlfriend,
Michelle Kern, 22, was living with
her parents, Michael and Roberta
Kern.
The 26-year-old Leirmoe shot
Kern and their sons, Jack Leir-
moe, 3, and Gage Leirmoe, 9
months, as well as Kerns sister,
Malinda Kern, 19, before setting a
fire in the home and shooting
himself.
Michelles parents were in
Utah at the time, where Michael
Kern was undergoing surgery.
Its just devastating, said
Denise Kidman, a former co-
worker of Roberta Kern. Bobby
(Roberta) lost her family in one
night.
Later, police investigators
learned that text messages from
Michelles and Gaylins phones
showed the relationship had de-
teriorated. Gaylin made accusa-
tions against Michelle, while she
tried to cut off contact with him.
I dont know that it was really
threatening. It was just that there
was a lot of name-calling,
Michael Kern said at the time. He
was harassing her. At one point he
said hed hired a private detective
that was following her around.
On May 10, the day Michelle
graduated from Eastern Idaho
Technical College, she picked up
her mother to go to lunch.
Michelle told her mother that
Gaylin was suicidal.
Three days later, the unthink-
able happened.
The stunned community ral-
lied around the Kerns as they
struggled to rebuild their lives,
holding several successful fund-
raisers for the family.
PAUL EZRA RHOADES
EXECUTED
After 24 years on death
row, serial killer Paul Ezra
Rhoades was executed
Nov. 18.
Rhoades execution was the
first in Idaho since
1994. He was con-
victed of the 1987
kidnappings and
murders of Susan
Michelbacher and
Stacy Baldwin.
Rhoades also was
convicted of sec-
ond-degree mur-
der in the slaying
of Nolan Haddon.
In a statement minutes before
he was executed, Rhoades ack-
nowledged that he played a role
in the Michelbacher murder but
did not take responsibility for
killing Baldwin and Haddon.
His last statement contradict-
ed an Oct. 21 written request
for a clemency hearing. In the
earlier statement, Rhoades took
responsibility for all three mur-
ders expressing guilt and
remorse.
The lethal injection assured
Rhoades the last word.
The devil has gone home,
said an execution witness who
represented one of Rhoades vic-
tims.
OFFICER-INVOLVED
SHOOTINGS
Since Dec. 30, 2010, Idaho
Falls police officers have
been involved in three
shootings.
While one of the shootings
happened as 2010 drew to a close,
the investigation played out in
early 2011.
In the 2010 incident, Nicholas
B. Barker was shot and killed
after he pointed a pistol at police
officers. Police went to the Royal
Avenue home where Barker was
staying after receiving a report
that a man was armed and possi-
bly suicidal.
Douglas Walters died in June
after he shot an Idaho Falls police
officer who had entered his
A bison starts to shake some of the water from its coat as it
emerges from the Yellowstone River in Hayden Valley.
The Fourth of July parade crowd is reflected in the tuba of
Idaho Falls band member Tyler Hutten.
Monte LaOrange/ mlaorange@postregister.com
Sgt. Orin T.J. Harman of Pocatello is surrounded by his children, Taylor, Shaylene, Nicole and Casey (not pictured). Harman
had lots of family and friends greet him at Aero Mark as members of the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team arrived home.
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Associated Press
PORTLAND,
Maine Mitt
Romney narrowly
won Maines
Republican cau-
cuses, state party
officials announ-
ced Saturday, pro-
viding his cam-
paign with a
much-needed
boost after three straight losses
earlier this week. But the former
Massachusetts governor won just
a plurality of the Maine vote, sug-
gesting he still has work to do to
unite GOP voters behind his can-
didacy.
State Republican Chairman
Charlie Webster announced
Romney had won with 2,190
votes, or 39 percent, compared to
1,996 about 36 percent for
Ron Paul, the only other candi-
date to aggressively compete in
the state. Rick Santorum received
989 votes and Newt Gingrich won
349, but neither actively cam-
paigned there. Other candidates
drew 61 votes.
The totals reflected about 84
percent of the states precincts.
Webster insisted that any caucus
results that come in after
Saturday wouldnt be counted no
matter how close the vote.
Some caucuses decided not to
participate in this poll and will
caucus after this announcement,
Webster said. Their results will
not be factored in. The absent
votes will not be factored into this
announcement after the fact.
Romneys win, combined with
his victory in the presidential
straw poll at the Conservative Po-
litical Action Committee confer-
ence in Washington hours earlier,
helped slow an embarrassing skid
that began Tuesday when he lost
contests in Missouri, Minnesota
and Colorado to Santorum. The
twin triumphs dampened the per-
ception for now that conser-
vatives were unwilling to support
Romney.
Romneys campaign has
demonstrated skill and flexibility
in winning a big state like Florida
and eking out a victory in a low-
turnout contest like Maine, where
organization and voter contact
are essential.
But questions about Romneys
durability as the partys pre-
sumed front-runner persist. Fully
61 percent of Maine voters select-
ed another candidate than Rom-
ney in a state practically in his
back yard. And Romneys show-
ing was down considerably from
2008, when he won 51 percent of
the vote.
IThe candidate also had a victory in the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Committee on Saturday.
EDITORS NOTE: This is the last
article in a three-part series looking at
the influence of lobbyists on the Idaho
Legislature.
BY CLARK CORBIN
B
OISE Last year, a Virginia company
that makes Americas best-selling cigarette
brand spent more money lobbying
Idaho lawmakers and officials than
any other group.
A Post Register review of more than
2,500 pages of disclosure forms available through
the Secretary of States Office found that the Altria Group
spent $165,076 lobbying in 2011.
The Altria Group is the parent company of Phillip
Morris, which manufactures Marlboro cigarettes.
Altria was the only organization to spend more than
$100,000 on lobbying expenses, spending 82 percent more than
the next biggest spender, the Idaho Education Association, which
coughed up $90,366.
Altria spent $3,814 on food and entertainment for state officials
and lawmakers during the year.
Specifically, Altria provided $2,500 for Republican Reps. JoAn
Wood (Rigby), Lawerence Denney (Midvale) and Ken Roberts
(Donnelly) to attend Gov. C.L. Butch Otters inauguration festiv-
ities.
Altria also spent $265 on Ketchum hotel rooms for Sen. Lee
Heider, R-Twin Falls, and Rep. Jim Guthrie, R-McCammon, in September.
The rest of Altrias money, $161,262, was classified as other expenses and services.
Those who follow Idaho politics remember that Blackfoot Republican Rep. Dennis
Lake pledged to carry a bill in 2011 that would increase the states cigarette tax. But the
session adjourned without any official consideration of the issue.
Lake said the bill never materialized because he couldnt secure the votes to get it out
of his own committee, which is crowded with fellow Republicans.
Wood and Roberts sit on Lakes House Revenue and Tax Committee, while Denney serves
as speaker of the House.
Idaho, meanwhile, has the lowest cigarette tax in the region, according to the Campaign for
Tobacco-Free Kids. At 57 cents per pack, Idahos tobacco tax is lower than 41 other states.
So, did Altrias lobbying hinder Lakes efforts?
Obviously it does, Lake said. Were still struggling trying to find the votes to get the bill
out of committee. I think the (legislative) body is being lobbied heavily.
I I I
All told, 19 lobbyists spent more than $10,000 on behalf of their clients last year
(see detailed table on Page A4).
Notable expenses included dinners for lawmakers at Boises Chandlers
Steakhouse (which offers a $62 porterhouse steak for two on its menu), a
night out at the 122-year-old members-only Arid Club and catered recep-
tions at hotel ballrooms.
The Coeur dAlene Tribe, for example, spent $23,000 after
inviting all lawmakers to a reception at Boises Grove Hotel in
February 2011.
The Idaho Bankers Association spent about $4,500 for 70 officials
to attend a January 2011 reception at the Grove.
And the Idaho Cable Telecommunications Association
spent about $2,200 on 27 lawmakers and guests at
another shindig at the Grove.
Melaleuca, the Idaho Falls-based
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the numbers
Long-term jobless
share their stories D1
Building bridges
Kids construct structures during event
at Madison Library in Rexburg C1
All in the family
Paul Ricks follows
his dads footsteps
into coaching B1
Follow the money
I Smyser and LaBeau are two names
that come up again and again
MONEY, Continued on Page A4
Wood
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Lake
Lobbying 101
Idaho has about 500 registered lobbyists, who pay a $10 annual fee and must don
a green name badge identifying them as they walk the halls of the Capitol.
A lobbyist generally is defined as anyone paid to influence policy decisions.
Lisa Mason, an election clerk and lobbyist specialist at the Idaho Secretary of States Office, said
lobbyists must disclose everything they spend in a year. If a lobbyist spends more than $100 on any
individual lawmaker or public official, that expense must be detailed in an itemized expense report
available for public review.
Anything less than that has to be reported, in the aggregate, but forms detailing who benefits
from the money are not required.
Lobbyists also are not required to disclose how much they are paid; only what they
spend.
While there is a vast difference between the amounts lobbyists spend (dozens
reported spending nothing in 2011), lobbyists may spend as much or as lit-
tle as they would like.
No, there is nothing that restricts (what they can spend)
as long as it is disclosed, Mason said.
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By signing a franchise agreement Thursday, Bonneville, Madison, Clark
and Fremont counties moved Dynamis Energy one step closer to building a
waste-to-energy plant in Dubois.
But not everyone is convinced the project will take root. While discus-
sion of the Dubois plant has been minimal so far, controversy surrounds a
much larger version of it thats planned for Ada County.
Critics of the proposed Ada County project object to the way both the
county and Dynamis have handled the process of moving it forward.
They question the lack of a bidding process and the countys outlay of
nearly $2 million for the plants design. They wonder if Ada County
ever will receive a benefit in return.
The Dynamis contract does not guarantee that the waste-
to-energy project will work or even that the waste-to-ener-
gy project will probably work, Boise attorney Jon
Steele wrote in a statement released Friday. While
science and technology make the Dynamis proj-
ect possible, science and technology have not
made the Dynamis project economically feasi-
ble.
David Frazier, who runs the news website
Boise Guardian, said he, too, is not sold on
Dynamis claims that its technology is viable.
The whole thing is pie in the sky at this
point, Frazier said. Its fair to say that Dynamis
is seeking ratepayer funding and Ada County tax-
payer funding for unproven technology, Frazier said.
Dynamis proposes to use bins with closely con-
trolled temperatures and pressures to heat household
garbage. That process causes the garbage to release a synthetic
gas that can be used as fuel. The fuel gas is then burned to boil water, producing
steam, which turns a turbine and produces an electrical current.
At maximum capacity, the Ada County plant is projected to produce as much as 22
megawatts. The Dubois plant has a maximum capacity of 4 megawatts.
Producing the synthetic gas is the hard part.
One of the reasons Dynamis chose this technology was the advantage of not requiring
pretreatment, such as sorting or grinding, of the garbage, said Rick Fawcett, who is working
through his company, Whisper Mountain, helping Dynamis piece together its Dubois project.
But the fact that household garbage often is very wet and contains a huge, unpredictable range
of items further complicates the gas-production side, said Robert Cherry, a senior research
engineer for Idaho National Laboratory
People can discard all kinds of problematic materials like car batteries, tree branches and
I Critics question whether the plants, which
are purported to use household trash as a
feedstock for electricity production, are viable.
Projects spark
discussion on
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Idaho Statesman
The biggest surprise in Gov. C.L.
Butch Otters State of the State ad-
dress last week was his target for tax
cuts to spur job growth.
He kicked it to the Legislature,
basically saying, Heres your box of
Legos, House Assistant Majority
Leader Scott Bedke said. Im not
telling you what it looks like, but build
something.
Bedke, an Oakley Republican, also
sits on the House Revenue and Tax
Committee.
Revenue and Taxation Chairman
Dennis Lake, R-Blackfoot, had ad-
vance word there would be a target,
but said, I was surprised it was that
high.
The $45 million ante was good
news for the Idaho Chamber Alliance,
a group of 22 chambers of commerce
with almost 11,000 business members
across Idaho.
That was manna from heaven,
alliance lobbyist John Watts said.
Watts said he had been working on
a revenue-neutral plan to trim exemp-
tions and lower corporate and individ-
ual income tax rates.
As welcome as Otters endorse-
ment was, Watts fears opening the toy
box could have a downside.
Do we lose an opportunity to do
something really effective because
there are so many ideas out there? he
said.
GOP Senate President Pro Tem
Brent Hill of Rexburg said that fear is
unwarranted. A former chairman of
the Senate tax committee, Hill said the
target is a blessing.
There were numbers all over the
board, from raising taxes to cutting
them by $250 million, Hill said. I
think its going to let us focus on the
method rather than spending all this
time arguing about how much it
Building blocks:
Gov. Otter calls for $45 million in
relief; leaves details to lawmakers
I Lowering the grocery tax credit would
free up $126M in income-tax rebates
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The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY In another setback
for one of the worlds most decorated
wrestlers, Olympic gold
medalist Rulon Gardner
filed for bankruptcy.
The move came after the
Star Valley, Wyo., native
tried to capitalize on his
fame in numerous business
and publicity pursuits over
the years. He owes credi-
tors nearly $3 million on a
household income of
$37,392, court records show.
Gardner disputes much of that debt,
saying he is a victim of investment fraud,
bankruptcy trustee David L. Miller told
The Associated Press. Gardner will offer
his version Oct. 10.
I It is the latest setback for
the Olympic gold medalist
and Ricks College graduate.
BY CLARK CORBIN
Following a deep recession, the con-
struction industry in Idaho Falls is riding
a record-breaking $74 million rebound.
Through August, the citys building
department approved $74 million worth
of building permits for local construction
and renovation work.
Records on file at the Planning and
Building Division indicate that dollar
amount is the highest for any year since
at least 1979 the last year for which
tabulated totals were available.
Five years came close with an
excess of $71 million in permits approved
in 2011, 2007, 2006, 2004 and 2001. But
those totals were recorded over a full 12
months. Four months remain for Idaho
Falls contractors to add to this years $74
million total.
Construction often slows later in the
year when cold weather arrives.
Idaho Falls building manager Reginald
Fuller said he wished he had a crystal ball
when asked whether construction proj-
ects were expected to continue at the cur-
rent pace.
So far, this years boom has been driv-
en by Idaho Falls School District 91 con-
struction activity, as well as a new 148,000
square-foot Idaho National Laboratory
education lab that Battelle Energy
Alliance will lease. Fuller said the record-
I District 91 and INL
projects have pushed the
value of Idaho Falls building
permits to $74 million.
BY ZACH KYLE
Recent bear encounters in the Island
Park area have some hunters and long-
time residents thinking
twice about venturing
into the hills.
Gary Detwiler, a bow
hunter from Michigan,
was charged and bitten
by a grizzly Thursday in
the Sheridan Creek
drainage in Clark County.
Bruins are nothing
new in Island Park, but Detwiler said
every encounter with an Island Park local
leads to a conversation about bears.
Everybody has a bear story, and they
seem scared to go outside, he said. It is
not because of what happened to me but
what is happening in the hills with all
these bears that seem to be everywhere.
Wesley White, who works at the fly
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In this June 7, 2005, file photo provided by Yellowstone National Park, a griz-
zly bear moves through Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. The U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service needs to do a better job of informing backcountry users
how to avoid dangerous encounters with grizzly bears, an official with the
agency says. We are providing education, but its not being received, said
Chris Servheen, coordinator for grizzly recovery with the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service.
I Hungry grizzly and black
bears are looking for food
due to a failed berry season.
Bear encounters on rise
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The Teton Valley has seen a lot of change since ski resorts first cropped up in the late 1960s. In this photo, a pair of
hot-air balloons drifts over the city of Driggs during the Teton Valley Balloon Rally. The rally, which takes place each
July, started in 1981. It draws balloon pilots from across the West and spectators from across the region.
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EDITORS NOTE: This is the sixth installment
in a bimonthly series highlighting communities
throughout the Post Registers 10-county cover-
age area. Tomorrows edition will feature a paral-
lel story about how Victor officials are trying to
stimulate the citys struggling economy.
BY ZACH KYLE
DRIGGS Teton Valley has two histories.
The first is the old valley, where John
Colter fought with and against American
Indians in the early 1800s.
Its where the Yellowstone Bandit, Ed
Tafton, hid out between single-handedly rob-
bing 19 stagecoaches in Yellowstone National
Park in 1915.
Its where members of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints settled to
farm and ranch in the 1890s.
The valleys modern history is tied to the
rise of ski resort culture and out-of-state
money.
Grand Targhee Resort opened in 1969 in
Alta, Wyo. It was followed in 1974 by Jackson
Hole Mountain Resort in Teton Village, Wyo.
Victor and Driggs became home to the
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berries, forcing bears to search for food
BEARS, Continued on Page A5
Eastern
Idaho
stories
I Change and beauty are the
only constants in the eight
miles separating Victor and
Driggs along Highway 33.
Teton Valley is a mix of the old and the new
I New Teton Valley communities have become
home to wealthy out-of-towners
TETON, Continued on Page A3
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building
boom
I The biggest project this year is INLs
new research and education facility
BUILDING, Continued on Page A5
Rulon
Gardner
files for
bankruptcy
Gardner
I Gardner, a graduate of Ricks College,
rose to fame at the 2000 Sydney Olympics
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A submission to
National Public Radio
host and journalist
Michelle Norris for her
Race Card Project.
Norris was on a book
tour two years ago and
started passing out
postcards asking peo-
ple to share six words
that express their
thoughts about race.
Cliff Owen
Associated Press
BY RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON Health insurance com-
panies will have to pay to play in new health
insurance markets coming under President
Barack Obamas health care law, the admin-
istration said in a regulatory notice issued
Friday.
The Health and Human
Services Department is pro-
posing a user fee amount-
ing to 3.5 percent of premi-
ums for health insurers who
want to offer policies in new
federal exchanges coming in
2014. The fee is to cover
administrative costs of the
new markets, which were
designed to be self-supporting.
Exchanges are new online markets where
consumers will be able to buy individual pri-
vate policies and apply for government subsi-
dies to help pay their premiums. About half of
the 30 million people expected to gain cover-
age under the law will get policies in the new
exchanges, and the other half will be covered
under Medicaid. Washington will run the
exchanges in states that decline to do so
themselves.
The proposed administrative fee in the
new exchanges would be higher than the 2
percent to 3 percent overhead commonly
cited for running Medicare, a disparity that
critics of the law were quick to point out.
However, it wasnt immediately clear whether
theres an apples-to-apples comparison
between the exchanges and the giant govern-
ment health program for seniors.
IThe feds are proposing a
user fee amounting to 3.5
percent of premiums for health
insurers who want to offer
policies in the new exchanges.
BY ALEX STUCKEY
Eagle Rock Specialties President
Mike Hendrickson didnt know why a
contractor at the Department of
Energys desert site needed an order of
long underwear.
Nor did he know why another con-
tractor ordered jars upon jars of peanut
butter.
Hendrickson and his daughter,
Ashley Quiroz, opened Eagle Rock
Specialties in 2009 to supply site con-
tractors with whatever they need to do
business. The contractors include
Battelle Energy Alliance, Idaho
Treatment Group and CH2M-WG Idaho
LLC, also known as CWI and at one time
Bechtel BWXT-Idaho.
I had been selling industry supplies
for about 20 years (before opening the
business), Hendrickson said. I felt I
could offer them better service if I
opened my own.
Eagle Rock Specialties is just one of
many eastern Idaho businesses hired by
DOE contractors during the past five
years.
Since 2008, those contractors have
pumped about $826 million into eastern
Idahos economy.
And their business has created
16,000 jobs throughout the state as a
result, Department of Labor spokesman
Will Jenson said.
One out of every five jobs in eastern
Idaho exists because of the (site),
Jenson said. (The site) has a pretty siz-
able multiplying effect (in the econo-
my).
Battelle, for example, places 30 per-
cent of its business within Idaho every
year, said Stacey Francis, Idaho
National Laboratorys small business
program manager.
Local businesses and businesses
I Since 2008, contractors at the DOE have pumped about $826M into the local economy.
Eagle Rock Specialties President Mike Hendrickson is never sure what might be requested by his biggest client,
Idaho National Laboratory, but he has set up his business with numerous suppliers so he can quickly fill whatev-
er request he is sent.
Site contractors create eastern Idaho jobs
The Good Farmer
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Ice Age
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Parents pitch in on Calvary Chapel
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Making their pitch
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DOEs $826M boost
BY JESSE WASHINGTON
AP National Writer
She asked for just six
words.
Michele Norris, the
National Public Radio host,
was starting a book tour for
her memoir, which explored
racial secrets. Sensing a
change in the atmosphere
after the election of the first
black president, and search-
ing for a new way to engage
and listen, Norris printed
200 postcards asking people
to express their thoughts on
race in six words.
The first cards that trick-
led into her mailbox were
from Norris friends and
acquaintances. Then they
started coming from
strangers, from people who
had not heard Norris speak,
from other continents. The
tour stopped; the cards did
not:
You know my race. NOT
Race Card Project creates new type of conversation
I Keeping prices low is the key to winning
bids from the contractors at the site
DOE, Continued on Page A4
Health
insurers
could pay
to play
Obama
I The insurance industry said Friday the fees
will increase costs even more than thought
INSURERS, Continued on Page A3
On the
INTERNET
To view more submissions to
the Race Card Project visit:
Iwww.theracecardproject
.com
I People now send them
via Facebook and Twitter
RACE, Continued on Page A4
I People have
just six words
to express their
thoughts on race.
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In this aerial photo, the Bear Trap Fire burns near Ennis, Mont., on Tuesday.
Send
in the
clowns
IThe use of scooters
and electric wheelchairs
may allow a group of
clowns to participate in
I.F.s July 4 parade if
the city OKs the plan.
BY CLARK CORBIN
The clowns are back in the July 4
parade.
Maybe.
Kathy Nave aka Ruffles the
Clown believes her group of more
than 20 clowns has found a way to
participate in the citys annual
parade without using banned motor-
ized golf carts.
Nave said she is finalizing plans
to use medical scooters or electric
wheelchairs to ride in the parade.
But parade organizers from the
Greater Idaho Falls Chamber of
Commerce said they have yet to
meet with Nave to formally discuss
the plan.
In a June 19 story, the Post Reg-
ister reported that the clowns would
not be allowed to participate in the
parade using golf carts due to safety
concerns.
After word spread, Nave said she
was overwhelmed with support.
I was averaging about 100 calls,
texts, emails and Facebook (mes-
sages) a day, Nave said. I tell you
what, I cant even explain how won-
derful it was knowing that the com-
munity and people I dont know per-
sonally were backing us up.
All those callers helped her put
together a plan. Nave said she pored
over the parade committees bylaws,
scoured relevant sections of Idaho
code and believes the scooters or
wheelchairs fit within the rules.
Weve put something together
that still goes by the rules, so we will
not be in ATVs or golf carts, Nave
said.
The clowns never were banned
from the parade, organizer Kerry
Huggins said, only their golf carts.
Huggins said she encouraged
Nave to hop aboard another groups
float, walk or ride bicycles.
Nave declined, saying her hip and
knee problems prevent her from
walking or cycling.
As for the floats, she said they
I Minimal activity in recent years has allowed fuels to accumulate.
Warm weather increases east Idaho fire concern
BY SVEN BERG
Eastern Idahos heat wave
has put the regions fire experts
on edge.
Two weeks ago, they were
expecting a normal, if somewhat
extended, fire season. Fire dan-
ger on most public lands
remained at the moderate set-
ting. But mid-90s temperatures
and dry air pushed that setting to
high or very high in many
areas.
One notable exception is the
U.S. Department of Energys site
west of Idaho Falls, where the
combination of fuel load and
weather has triggered an ex-
treme fire danger assessment.
I dont know that its the
worst fuel conditions weve ever
seen out here, but were definite-
ly in that echelon, Idaho Na-
tional Laboratory Fire Chief Eric
Gosswiller said.
Beyond the drying effect that
our heat wave caused, fire
experts are worried that minimal
fire activity during the past two
years has allowed fuels to accu-
BY JEN AUSTIN
jaustin@postregister.com
Two local residents are
in Larimer County, Colo.,
helping those who have
suffered losses in the High
Park Fire.
Helen Rasmussen of
Idaho Falls and Dr. Roy
Marlowe of Rexburg an-
swered the American Red
Cross request for help.
Theyre volunteering at
a shelter near the scene of
the fire that, as of Tuesday
morning, had left one per-
son dead, burned more
than 80,000 acres and de-
stroyed more than 250
homes, according to news
reports.
We have a full house of
folks in the shelter, Red
Cross spokeswoman Bar-
bara Fawcett said. Helen
(Rasmussen) is working in
the shelters for the people
that have been evacuated.
Rasmussen, a trained
Red Cross volunteer, was
Extra insight
I June 19:
Clown carts nixed
from Fourth of
July parade
http:tinyurl.com
/July4-clowns
I Nave said I.F. clowns have never
injured or run over a parade bystander
CLOWNS, Continued on Page A4
July 4 fire danger
Unusually warm tempera-
tures hitting eastern Idaho dur-
ing the past week have height-
ened concerns that fireworks will
spark out-of-control blazes.
According to Idaho Falls law,
people who discharge illegal or
banned fireworks within city lim-
its face up to six months in jail
and a fine of as much as $1,000.
The citys list of dangerous and
banned fireworks includes:
I Sparklers more than 10
inches in length or one-quarter
inch in diameter.
I Exploding devices such as
firecrackers, cherry bombs and
salutes.
I Flying devices that explode
or burn.
I Roman candles.
I Snakes and hats contain-
ing bichloride of mercury.
A complete list of fireworks
that are banned or illegal in
Idaho Falls is available at the
website tinyurl.com/if-fireworks.
Click on the Title 6 Health and
Public Safety link first. Then
click on the Chapter 2 Fire-
works link.
E. Idahoans aid
CO fire victims
IThe Red Cross
volunteers are
helping those who
have lost homes.
Rasmussen Marlowe
Idaho scraps bidding plan for school laptops over lack of bids
BOISE (AP) Citing insufficient
competition, Idaho officials have aban-
doned their original bidding process
meant to equip public school teachers
with laptop computers starting this fall.
Instead, the state will negotiate
directly with providers of computers
and services, in hopes of keeping this
five-year estimated $60 million piece of
public schools chief Tom Lunas
Students Come First reforms on
track even as he tries to fend off repeal
measures on Novembers ballot.
State purchasing officials say only
three private groups submitted bids
following a request for proposals, or
RFP, earlier this year.
One missed the June 11 deadline
and was excluded. Another was on
time, but failed to meet state require-
ments. Only one actually met the qual-
ifications.
As a result, the Department of
Administration said Tuesday it will
IThe state will negotiate directly with providers to purchase computers as part of the Students Come First plan.
Luna
I The first wave of students in the pro-
gram wont get their laptops until 2013
LAPTOPS, Continued on Page A4
I Marlowe is helping with
mental-health services
VICTIMS, Continued on Page A4
I Fires throughout the West may
drain firefighting resources
POWDER KEG, Continued on Page A4
BY SVEN BERG
James Bond takes his vodka mar-
tini shaken, not stirred.
Bacardi Guy and his friend Cola
live their lives surrounded by gor-
geous, gullible women.
The Most Interesting Man in the
World doesnt always drink beer, but
when he does, he prefers Dos Equis.
Rappers spit rhymes about
Hypnotiq and Hennessey.
Theyre cool. Theyre sexy. They
seem to have money. They drink
alcohol.
Therefore, people who drink alco-
hol must be cool, sexy and successful
at least, thats the sales pitch.
What most movies and commer-
cials dont show is the hard, heart-
breaking reality that so often follows
alcohol abuse: families in ruin, med-
ical conditions, financial despair,
Nick Noltes mug shot.
They dont mention Hank
Williams, the country music legend
and uncompromising alcoholic, lying
broken in the back seat of a Cadillac,
dead on New Years morning at the
age of 29.
There were no cameras in the
Custer County courtroom where 15-
year-old Arco girl Genasee Twitchell
stood last April and tearfully
described the loss of her father to a
crash that drunken driver Marc
Klein caused.
Edwin Wells, head of the emer-
gency medicine department at
Eastern Idaho Regional Medical
Center, called commercials for alco-
holic drinks ridiculous.
I hate them, he said. The igno-
rant are duped by that kind of stuff.
Its such a lie. Alcohol ruins every-
thing. Relationships. Body. Mind.
Ability to make choices in life. Im so,
so upset by the media and how it
portrays beer and liquor.
Even worse, the image movie-
makers and advertisers link to alco-
hol use is especially effective on soci-
etys most easily influenced mem-
bers, said Cindy Hansen, a drug and
alcohol professor at Idaho State
University and clinical director of the
adult and adolescent treatment pro-
gram in Pocatello.
I think were gearing a lot of
advertising to our adolescents,
Hansen said. People portrayed in
the ads are young. They are having
fun, doing things young people like
to do. Some of the research has
shown television is a very strong
peer for our children. You have alco-
hol right in their face.
Abused, alcohol is as devastating
as almost any drug. Besides the host
of social, legal and personal prob-
What the images dont show is the hard, heart-breaking reality that the addiction can cause.
BY LAURA ZUCKERMAN
news@postregister.com
SALMON Three years after Idaho
State Police troopers said gunshots rang
out when they tried to contact a reclusive
resident in a Lemhi County ghost town,
authorities say the case no longer is under
active investigation.
A lack of evidence and a denial from the
resident are reasons for the change in sta-
tus.
The longer we go, the less we know,
Lemhi County Sheriff Lynn Bowerman
said.
In the Jan. 14, 2009, Gilmore incident,
Idaho State Police officers said their
attempts to open the door of a building
were met with gunfire.
Four troopers rode snowmobiles to the
remote, one-time mining town about 60
miles southeast of Salmon. They either
were acting on a citizens report of illegal
drug activity or were trying to conduct
what one officer described as a welfare
/residence check at a building owned by
Adrian J. Hannaford, according to ISP
records.
The ISP documents were released to the
Post Register in July 2010 and were
unsealed in September 2010 after a nine-
month legal battle.
The troopers were not in uniform, had
The longer
we go, the less
we know.
LYNN BOWERMAN
Lemhi County sheriff
IThe incident involving Idaho State Police troopers three years ago is no longer under active investigation.
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MOVIES, ADS MASKTRUTHABOUTALCOHOLABUSE
A 12-part series on the
ramifications of addiction
to drugs and alcohol
Nolte
Williams
Klein
By the numbers
Percentage of alcohol
users reported by age
group in Idaho in 2007:
12 to 17: 14 percent
18 to 25: 52 percent
26 and older: 45 percent
Source: U.S.
Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services
Administration
Illustration by Monte LaOrange / mlaorange@
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I Part of what makes alcohol abuse
so hard to combat is that its legal
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Waste
retrieval
back on
I Retrieval of wooden
boxes at the Advanced
Mixed Waste Treatment
Project stalled in 2010
after one of them broke.
BY SVEN BERG
After a false start, some nervous
moments and two years of engineering,
the retrieval of waste-containing wood-
en boxes has begun again at the Ad-
vanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project.
Since May 8, crews have retrieved six
wooden boxes in which radioactive and
hazardous waste has been stored for
decades on the U.S. Department of
Energys Idaho site west of Idaho Falls,
according to an email from project
spokeswoman Lisa Lindholm. So far, the
work has occurred without incident or
mishap, according to the email.
The Idaho Treatment Group, the
projects contractor, originally sched-
uled the retrieval restart for April 23, but
concerns about the integrity of the first
box caused project leaders to rethink
their approach.
The mission of the treatment project
is to unearth, process, package and ship
out of the state radioactive and toxic
waste stored in barrels and boxes on the
DOE site. While the metal barrels are
largely intact, many of the wooden
boxes have severely deteriorated after
sitting for years under a layer of dirt.
Six boxes in three weeks may not
seem like much of a dent in a stack of
700, but the rebirth of retrieval is major
progress. Retrieval of the boxes stalled
in 2010 after one of them broke as work-
ers prepared it for moving. Once bro-
ken, the box allowed radioactive con-
tamination to escape into the building
that covers the projects stacks of boxes
and barrels. Several workers were
exposed to small, unexpected doses of
radiation a huge concern in a cleanup
culture obsessed with safety.
In the nearly two years that followed,
project officials devised new ways to
retrieve the boxes intact and protect
workers from unforeseen complica-
tions. After visually inspecting the
integrity of each box, workers use a
hydraulic forklift to move the box from
the stack to a metal over-pack box that
encloses the wooden structure.
In order to keep the treatment project
on track to meet contractual goals, its
leaders are currently conducting value
engineering of the process to optimize
and add additional controls, according
to Lindholms email.
Defense of Marriage Act heading to Supreme Court
BOSTON (AP) A battle
over a federal law that defines
marriage as a union between a
man and a woman appears
headed for the Supreme Court
after an appeals court ruled
Thursday that denying benefits
to married gay couples is
unconstitutional.
In a unanimous decision,
the three-judge panel of the 1st
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
Boston said the 1996 law
deprives gay couples of the
rights and privileges granted to
heterosexual couples.
The court didnt rule on the
laws more politically com-
bustible provision that states
without same-sex marriage
cannot be forced to recognize
gay unions performed in states
where its legal. It also wasnt
asked to address whether gay
couples have a constitutional
right to marry.
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The beer stein hat, captured at last years Mountain Brewers Beer Fest in Idaho Falls, probably says it all. More than
6,000 beer lovers are expected to attend this years festival at Sandy Downs.
A guide to the Mountain Brewers Beer Fest
I Heres a short list of cant-miss brews to get you started Saturday.
BY MICHAEL LYCKLAMA
mlycklama@postregister.com
With nearly 100 breweries, hundreds
of beers and more than 6,000 attendees,
just walking into the Mountain Brewers
Beer Fest is
overwhelming
never mind
selecting the
first beer.
The festival
at Sandy
Downs, which
starts at noon
Saturday, has
grown so large
in its 18th year
that its impos-
sible to try all
the beer sam-
ples offered. So you need an attack plan.
Below are some of the highlights fea-
tured at this years festival, broken down
into the categories of drinkers, from the
hopheads to light-beer lovers to the non-
beer drinkers.
Its not a comprehensive list by any
means. But itll point you in the direction
of some of the festivals cant-be-missed
brews.
For the hophead
If youre looking for the in-your-face
hops only Northwest IPAs can provide.
Bitter Roots Single Hop Ale
Brewed solely
with the Columbus hop,
one of the strongest
hops on the market,
this ale is aggressively
dry hopped for a month
with a pound of hops per barrel (31 gal-
lons). The result is a strong floral aroma
that balances the brews bitter hops.
Barley Browns Turmoil
The four-barrel brew
pub made nationwide waves
with its style-defining Tur-
moil. First brewed in 2004,
Turmoil was a Cascadian
Dark Ale before the style
became all the rage. It set
the standard, winning the first gold
medal for the black IPA style at the Great
American Beer Fest in 2010.
Extra insight
I April 22: AMWTP retrieval
work set to start Monday
tinyurl.com/amwtp-restart
IA court ruled that
denying benefits to
married gay couples
is unconstitutional.
READERS
CHOICE
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CHOICE

This story was selected by a Post Register
focus group of readers younger than 35.
Keegan O'Brien of
Worcester, Mass., leads
chants as members of
the lesbian, gay, bisexu-
al and transgender
community protest the
Defense of Marriage Act
outside a Democratic
National Committee
fundraiser in Boston on
June 23, 2009.
Elise Amendola
Associated Press file
Beer Fest shuttles
Yellow school buses will pick
up and drop off those attending
the 18th annual Mountain Brewers
Beer Fest at Sandy Downs at the
following locations:
I Snow Eagle
Brewing & Grill,
455 River Parkway
I Shilo Inn, 780
Lindsay Blvd.
I Buffalo Wild
Wings, 1430 Milligan
Road
I The Zone, 1505
W. Broadway
I Bowl-ero, 670 First
St.
I DBs, 216 First St.
I The Frosty Gator,
298 D St.
I LaQuinta Inn, 2501
S. 25th East (Hitt Road)
I Firehouse Grill,
2891 S. 25th East (Hitt
Road)
I Sams Club, 700 E. 17th St.
Your to-drink list
I Local breweries will include Idaho

Brewing Co. and Grand Teton Brewing Co.
LIST, Continued on Page A4
I White House says the ruling

is consistent with Obamas views
MARRIAGE, Continued on Page A4
BY MELISSA DAVLIN
Twin Falls Times-News
BOISE Rising costs, stag-
nant pay and an increased work-
load with fewer people to handle
it.
Its a familiar story for Idahos
state employees.
Budget cuts
have forced
state agencies to
shed more than
1,800 full-time
positions since
2008. For the
employees who
remain, the past
four years have
meant busier
workweeks and
more furlough
days all with-
out raises.
Its a problem
both Gov. C.L. Butch Otter and
the Legislature want to address in
the coming fiscal year, but there
are disagreements on how best to
do so.
THE PROBLEM
Three consecutive years of
state funding reductions have
affected every area of every state
agency, including employees. Its
difficult to pin down the number
of state employees lost because of
the different ways workers are
classified, Cathie Holland-Smith
said.
Holland-Smith of the states
Legislative Services Office made
the comment during a Jan. 16
presentation to the Joint Finance-
Appropriations Committee.
But regardless of how you
count them, the ranks of former
state workers numbers are near-
ing 2,000 and the effects are far-
reaching.
Take the Department of Health
and Welfares Division of Be-
havioral Health, for example.
State Hospital South in Black-
foot has lost 37 full-time employ-
ees since 2009, according to divi-
sion administrator Ross Ed-
munds. Those job cuts coincided
with a near doubling of admis-
sions to the psychiatric hospital
from 253 in 2008 to 490 in 2011.
The job cuts have left the hos-
pital in a dangerous situation, for
both staff and patients. Since
2009, staff injuries from patient
assaults increased from 35 to 58
last year. Those injuries can be as
small as a hurt finger from mov-
ing a struggling patient to a
punch in the face, Edmunds said.
The situation isnt ideal for pa-
tients, either. Edmunds pointed to
a patient who became ill after re-
ceiving psychotropic medications.
We recognized that some of
the levels in their blood were too
high, which created a safety con-
cern, he said.
Such errors are easier to catch
when there is an on-site lab tech-
nician.
During a Jan. 18 presentation
to JFAC, Edmunds requested
funding to restore 10 full-time
positions at the hospital. Even
with reduced staff, the needs of
IThrough layoffs,
furloughs and
stagnating salaries,
budget cuts have hit
state employees hard.
Economics
As well as being a socially, financially and per-
sonally destructive drug, meth also is extremely
profitable for those who sell it. Bonneville County
Sheriffs Detective Mike Dickson said dealers
often dilute the meth they buy in order to
increase their profits. By buying in bulk and
adding cheap bunk, he said, its nothing for
(dealers) to double or triple their money.
The street value of meth depends on its
strength. So does the amount a meth user
smokes or injects in a single use. The users tol-
erance for the drug also influences the amount
he or she consumes.
Here is a rough idea of how much meth sells
for:
I 1/4 gram: $50-$75
I 1/2 gram: $100-$125
I Gram: $150
I Ounce: $1,200-$1,600
I Pound: $18,000-$22,000
Source: Bonneville County Sheriffs Detective
Mike Dickson
BY RUTH BROWN
rbrown@postregister.com
Bonneville County Chief
Deputy Prosecutor Daniel
Clark knows all too well the
havoc caused by methamphet-
amine use in eastern Idaho.
Anybody that thinks
(using) meth is a victimless
crime has never been with me,
doing a search warrant in the
middle of the night, and seen
the conditions that kids live in
while their parents are strung
out on meth, Clark said. Ill
fight that all day long, because
its not a victimless crime.
In fact, Clark, a 10-year vet-
eran of the prosecutors office,
said meth use is a common de-
nominator in a significant
number of the countys felony
cases.
Theft crimes, burglary and
those types of crimes are com-
mon (drug-related crimes),
Clark said. Some are stealing
to get cash to get drugs, or we
have those individuals that
dont have employment be-
cause of their drug problem so
they (steal because they) need
money.
Absolutely, the far-majori-
ty of felony property crimes
are drug-related, Clark said.
Meth use in Bonneville
County remains a serious pro-
blem.
I believe we have a signifi-
cant methamphetamine prob-
lem in our community, Clark
said. I think the problem is
more significant than most
people realize.
Meth issues
permeate
the justice
system
EDITORS NOTE: This is the
first installment of a monthly
series examining the effects of
addiction.
BY ZACH KYLE
Methamphetamine isnt a
rural drug, a big-city drug or
someone elses drug.
Its an eastern Idaho drug
one thats created devastat-
ing problems throughout the
region.
Consider these stories:
I The parents of a 2-year-
old Power County boy are in
jail facing charges of felony
child endangerment after the
child was taken to Primary
Childrens Hospital in Salt
Lake City.
The Idaho State Journal
reported Wednesday that
court documents said the boy
had overdosed on prescrip-
tion medication and also test-
ed positive for methampheta-
mine.
I Later Wednesday, a fed-
eral grand jury in Pocatello
indicted 11 individuals for
conspiracy to distribute meth-
amphetamine. Suspects were
arrested in Idaho Falls, Rex-
burg and Shelley.
I On Thursday, the Post
Register featured 37-year-old
Josh Perotto as a probation
success story.
Perotto was placed on pro-
bation for eight years follow-
ing a 2007 kidnapping convic-
tion that also sent him to jail
for a year. He said he never
would have committed the
crime if he hadnt been addict-
ed to methamphetamine.
Perotto said avoiding drugs
specifically meth always
will be a battle for him.
I On Thursday afternoon,
Wayne Walker told Adminis-
trative Judge Jon Shindurling
that methamphetamine
wrecks lives.
Walker was in court testify-
ing on behalf of his son, Jett
Wayne Walker, 27, who was
sentenced to 15 years in
prison for possession of
methamphetamine with intent
to deliver. He will serve a min-
imum of two years with 13
years indeterminate time.
The latest charge was Jett
Walkers fourth felony convic-
tion, three of which also were
for possession of a controlled
substance with intent to deliv-
er.
Wayne Walker knows the
damage meth can do to a per-
sons life and to a family. The
elder Walker is a recovering
meth addict.
Those stories offer just a
glimpse of the damage meth
inflicts on our society.
People society itself
become the victim of an ad-
dict, Bonneville County Sher-
iffs Detective Mike Dickson
said.
Dickson was a narcotics
investigator from 1999 to
2009.
Meth is bad, he said.
Realistically, on the level of
devastation ... not only to a
Devastating consequences
of meth felt across society
No conscience
Photos courtesy of the Multnomah County (Ore.) Sheriffs Department
This series of pictures shows the toll meth can take on users.
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A 12-part series
on the ramifications
of addiction to
drugs and alcohol
I Clark said theres no such
thing as dabbling in meth
JUSTICE, Continued on Page A4
I Meth addiction is one of the
most difficult cycles to break
METH, Continued on Page A4
Money
and
morale
I State employees last received a
widespread pay increase in 2008
MORALE, Continued on Page A6
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chairman wont
run again / C7
BY PATRICK ORR
Idaho Statesman
Darrell Payne. Ethan Windom. Joseph
Duncan. John Delling.
Those are some names of infamous mur-
derers known to Treasure Valley residents,
whose attorneys at one time or another said
were not treated fairly by an Idaho justice sys-
tem that does not allow for a traditional insan-
ity defense.
Payne is on Idahos death row. Delling and
I Idaho is one of four states
without the insanity defense.
Answers
sought
in school
shooting
BY JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN
Associated Press
NEWTOWN, Conn. Investigators tried
to figure out what led a bright but painfully
awkward 20-year-old to
slaughter 26 children and
adults at a Connecticut ele-
mentary school, while towns-
people sadly took down some
of their Christmas decorations
and struggled Saturday with
how to go on.
The tragedy brought forth
soul-searching and grief
around the globe. Families as
far away as Puerto Rico began to plan funer-
als for victims who still had their baby teeth,
world leaders extended condolences, and vig-
ils were held around the U.S.
IVigils for the dead are held
around the nation and the world.
Eastern Idaho Business
The Idaho Falls downtown area is thriving: INSERT
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INSIDE
I No rise in mass killings, but their impact is
huge / A6
I Media struggled with the facts in reporting
the shooting / A7
I Sympathy over the school shooting spans
the globe / A10
I Police say they have found no note or
manifesto from Lanza about the shooting
SHOOTING, Continued on Page A4
States fight
over insanity
defense will
likely return
I Some feel that re-establishing the insanity
defense is a matter of basic fairness.
INSANITY, Continued on Page A4
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the final
installment in a three-part series examin-
ing public school funding in Idaho.
BY CLARK CORBIN
Sen. Brent Hill, the top-ranking
member of the Idaho Senate, said he
wishes state leaders had spent more
money on
education.
Hill, a Rex-
burg Repub-
lican serving
as senate pres-
ident pro tem-
pore, said law-
makers strive
to provide cen-
tralized fund-
ing for schools
in an equal way.
The Idaho Constitution requires that
lawmakers establish and maintain a
general, uniform and thorough system
of public, free common schools.
With the 2013 legislative session
approaching, Hill is the latest high-
ranking official to weigh in on the
school funding riddle.
For the most part, Republican law-
makers interviewed for this series of
articles acknowledge difficulties or
problems with school funding. But they
generally qualify their answers by say-
ing legislators are doing their best
while faced with difficult financial cir-
cumstances.
On Dec. 12, Gov.
C.L. Butch Otter
said the state
probably isnt
meeting its consti-
tutional duties for
education.
And Otter was-
nt alone in add-
ressing lawmakers
duties to students
and schools.
In 2005, the Idaho Supreme Court
ruled the school funding system is
simply not sufficient to carry out the
Legislatures duty under the (Idaho)
IA former chief economist says that spending has to be part of the solution.
Suits, Idaho courts
challenge school
funding system
BY CLARK CORBIN
Time and again, Idaho
courts have ruled lawmakers
are failing in their duties to
meet the constitutional re-
quirements for education.
Beginning in 1990, a group
of school district superintend-
ents and parents calling itself
Idaho Schools for Equal
Educational Opportunity sued
the state. The group alleged
the present level and method
of funding for Idahos public
schools is unconstitutional.
That 1990 complaint has
been appealed to the Supreme
Court at least five times,
I Lawmakers say they have to juggle
multiple constitutional requirements
FUNDING, Continued on Page A3
I The latest case involves the
legality of schools charging fees
SUITS, Continued on Page A3
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Sunday, June 30, 2013

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