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Micron Technology, the state’s largest private employer, announced today that it’ll phase out manufacturing of 200 mm wafers at its Boise plant, meaning 500 layoffs “in the near term” and “as many as 2,000 positions by the end of the company’s fiscal year.” In a press release, Steve Appleton, Micron chairman and CEO, said, “We remained hopeful that the demand for these products would stabilize in the marketplace and start to improve as we moved into the spring. Unfortunately, a better environment has not materialized, and we are at a point where we wanted to let our employees and the community know in advance what will occur later this summer”/MamaJD. More here.
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Bent on February 23 at 4:12 p.m.
Wow, MamaJD is writing for Eye on Boise now? Puuting that law degree to work down in Boise, are ya???
/DFO is blogging at the speed of light again…
JohnA on February 23 at 4:16 p.m.
Will the last person out of Boise please turn off the lights? Thank you.
MamaJD on February 23 at 6:04 p.m.
Holy Cow! I feel so bad that Betsy has been insulted in this manner. So sorry, Betsy!