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• Idaho to return mansion to Simplots

  March 1, 2013 in Idaho BOISE — Idaho aims to return the hilltop mansion to the Simplot family by June 30 in a tentative agreement over the would-be governor’s residence-turned-money pit that remained vacant even … 7

• Ideas aplenty for future of empty, costly Idaho mansion

  November 22, 2012 in Idaho on Page A16 BOISE – Idaho could turn its unoccupied, hilltop governor’s mansion into the “Governor’s Hill” winery, one citizen suggests, remaking the grassy hillsides into terraced vineyards and the house into a …

• Idaho governor’s mansion unused but still costly

  July 7, 2012 in Idaho on Page A1 BOISE – For more than three decades, Idaho has struggled with the issue of a governor’s mansion, ever since then-Gov. Cecil Andrus refused to live in the deteriorating Boise home … 12