Headlines @ Closin’ Time — 1/27/09

Larry Brown (right), chairman of the Lakeland School Board, and CDA School Trustee Vern Newby visited the Idaho Legislature today to lobby for money for Idaho schools. You can read Betsy Russell’s Eye On Boise story here .

• Down economy means growth at NIC /Eye On Boise
• ISP reopens eastbound I-90 /KXLY
• Best of Spokesman.com PM blogs /SR
• Washington AG wants Avista to lower rates /Eye On Olympia
• Special Olympics torch reaches CDA Thursday /Idaho Statesman; and: Sandpoint/Hope, too /Bonner County Bee
• UI’s parent students want leave for sick kids /UI Argonaut

• Measure would alter personal property tax exemption /Eye On Boise
• Poor Idahoans get free fish despite health warning /AP
• BSU endowment has fallen by 30% /KTVB
• Ponderay man enters plea in child abuse case /Bonner County Bee
• Clark Fork suspect claims he was intimidated into talking /Bonner County Bee