{"id":4670,"date":"2012-02-07T16:19:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T23:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2012-02-07T16:19:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T23:19:30","slug":"lawmakers-and-industry-reps-to-brainstorm-economic-boosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/02\/07\/lawmakers-and-industry-reps-to-brainstorm-economic-boosters\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers and Industry Reps to Brainstorm Economic Boosters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two tax panels will join forces Wednesday to brainstorm ways to stimulate Idaho&#8217;s economy.\u00a0 The Senate Local Government and Taxation Committee and the House Revenue and Taxation Committee are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislature.idaho.gov\/sessioninfo\/2012\/standingcommittees\/sloc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">hosting a joint forum <\/a>on the subject beginning at 9:00 am.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll be <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p1KtZ7-1di\" target=\"_blank\">liveblogging<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the agenda:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Food Producers of Idaho&#8217;s Brent Olmstead will talk about the food production sector<\/li>\n<li>Boise Valley Economic Partnership Executive Director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvep.org\/about\/team.aspx?id=37\" target=\"_blank\">Clark Krause<\/a> will talk about creating jobs <!--more--><\/li>\n<li>Sen. Curt McKenzie (R-Boise) and Rep. George Eskridge (R-Dover) will talk about Idaho&#8217;s energy sector<\/li>\n<li>Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry President <a title=\"Idaho Pro-Business Group Supports State Health Insurance Exchange, Eliminating the Personal Property Tax\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/01\/17\/idaho-pro-business-group-supports-state-health-insurance-exchange-eliminating-the-personal-property-tax\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alex LaBeau<\/a> represents Idaho&#8217;s large industries<\/li>\n<li>Department of Commerce Director Jeff Sayer will be representing Idaho&#8217;s small and medium businesses<\/li>\n<li>Lobbyist John Watts will speak on behalf of the Idaho Chamber Alliance<\/li>\n<li>Home Federal Bank President and CEO Len Williams will be representing Idaho&#8217;s banking industry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can watch the meeting live right <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idahoptv.org\/leglive\/legBody.cfm?pubPoint=WW02AUD\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and follow along with our <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p1KtZ7-1di\" target=\"_blank\">liveblog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two tax panels will join forces Wednesday to brainstorm ways to stimulate Idaho&#8217;s economy.\u00a0 The Senate Local Government and Taxation Committee and the House Revenue and Taxation Committee are hosting a joint forum on the subject beginning at 9:00 am.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll be liveblogging. Here&#8217;s the agenda: Food Producers of Idaho&#8217;s Brent Olmstead will talk about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[121],"tags":[235,233,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4675,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions\/4675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}