State Labor Director Ken Edmunds’ remarks to a legislative committee last week that Idaho is losing half its college graduates within four years after graduation – likely due to low pay – are explored in my Sunday column, along with the hiring of Idaho’s new state Commerce Director Megan Ronk, and a look at what Gov. Butch Otter and top GOP legislative leaders had to say on the Burns, Ore. armed standoff. You can read my full column here at spokesman.com.