ITD said today that the reason it'll pay new Director Brian Ness $22,000 a year more than fired Director Pam Lowe is because it negotiated a salary designed to be a substantial increase from Ness' current salary in Michigan, after accounting for higher costs of…
It's a milestone for the two-year renovation of the state Capitol: The project has been declared "substantially complete," and the building is now back in the hands of the state, rather than the contractors. There's still final work and move-in work going on, however; the…
ITD has corrected the salary figure it supplied to Eye on Boise late yesterday for new Idaho Transportation Director Brian Ness - it's not $160,000 a year, it's $165,000. That makes it $22,000 more than the salary paid to the previous director, Pam Lowe.
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