Morning News: Micron To Buy Chip Maker For $2.5 Billion, Mixed Reactions From Business Owners On Health Care Ruling

Business Owners Mixed On Health Care Ruling – “Depending on whom you ask, the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the federal health care law will either help businesses grow or it will make them more hesitant to hire.” NPR

Micron to buy Japanese chip maker, newspaper reports – “Micron Technology will buy bankrupt Japanese chipmaker Elpida Memory Inc. for an estimated 200 billion yen ($2.5 billion), the Nikkei newspaper said. As much as 140 billion yen of the acquisition price will be used to pay Elpida’s debts, and about 70 percent of the Tokyo-based company’s liabilities won’t be repaid, the Nikkei reported without saying where it got the information. “ Bloomberg

Senator: Governor’s mansion budget vote illegal – “A Democratic senator contends Idaho officials violated public meetings laws with a hasty email vote this week on the $177,400 budget to cover landscaping, mowing and watering the expansive lawn below the vacant Idaho governor’s mansion.”