Bathroom law leads to confab switch

Every downtown hotel has been booked for months, and good luck getting a dinner reservation – Boise is hosting its largest multi-day convention ever at its downtown convention center, and it’s North Carolina’s loss. The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists was originally scheduled to hold its 2017 annual convention in Raleigh, N.C. But then North Carolina’s Legislature passed its infamous “bathroom bill,” including the requirement that people use the bathroom that matches their birth certificate, not their gender identity/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.