Broadband talks on hold

The state has been negotiating with two Idaho Education Network vendors since October — in hopes of settling more than $6 million in legal claims. But when the state absorbed another resounding defeat in court Tuesday , the negotiations got derailed. “Right now we’re in a little bit of a cooling-off period,” Senate President Pro Tem Brent Hill told Idaho Education News Thursday. “People want to go back to their own corner.” Hill, R-Rexburg, confirmed that the settlement talks began last fall. The talks haven’t broken down, he said. But for now, nobody is talking/ Kevin Richert , Idaho Education News. More here .

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