High & Dry Without A Cellphone

As a reporter, I often use a small recording device – these days, my iPhone – to record events like press conferences so I can later double-check my notes. So on Monday when I went to Gov. Butch Otter’s press conference in his office after his State of the State address, I set my phone to record and set it up on the mantelpiece. Then I went up front to take pictures and ask questions, moved around the room to take some pictures from different angles, later sat down in back, and then when the press conference concluded, went back to my desk in the Capitol press room. An hour later, I reached for my phone – and I didn’t have it. I was at a loss, until I realized I’d left it in the governor’s office/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.

Other Eye on Boise stories from today’s legislative session:

• Testimony: ‘Find some way to give employees at least something’
• Bell: After cuts ‘there’s no dead wood’, urges consideration of raises for state employees
• Lawmakers have reservations re: relying on salary savings for state worker raises
• Otter names Llana Rubel to Ward-Engelking’s former House seat
• Somber notes for lawmakers on snowy day at Statehouse

Question: Have you lost your cellphone in the last year or two? Did you freak out?