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Eye On Boise archive for Dec. 1, 2009

TUESDAY, DEC. 1, 2009


Silver Creek fish OK to eat after all 

The Idaho Department of Health & Welfare has lifted a mercury advisory for consuming fish from the famed Silver Creek area near Picabo, after it turned out that test results showing dangerous mercury levels in brown trout from the watershed were in error. “This is…

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An Idaho political story extraordinaire 

The recent Idaho Supreme Court decision that brought former seven-term Idaho Congressman George Hansen back into the news - he lost an appeal to get out of repaying hundreds of thousands of dollars to an Idaho couple he swindled in an investment scheme - recalled…

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Top proposal: Cut pay for the highest-paid

Of the 217 money-saving suggestions Gov. Butch Otter's "efficiency" Web site had received by yesterday, the runaway winner was a cut in pay for the state's top-paid officials. "Start with a 5 percent decrease in all executive pay - you too," wrote William Weiden of…

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