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wards are nice.But maintaining a genera-

tions-long record o serving our

communities is more important thanany award could ever be.

he Society o Proessional Journal-sts in May selected the Post Register ashe best small newspaper in the North-est. he award, presented by Region

10 o the Society o Proessional Jour-alists, was or work completed in 2012.Region 10 comprises Alaska, Oregon,ashington, Idaho and Montana and

s one o 12 regions nationwide. hesocietys membership includes about8,000 journalists in the United States

and abroad.he General Excellence award is one

o the most prestigious weve ever re-ceived and we were proud to get it.

Editor and Publisher Roger Plothowsummed up the companys eelingsabout the honor:

o be selected as the best dailyewspaper among the more than 100 o

our size in the Paciic Northwest takes aittle good ortune, a lot o planning andhe hard work o two dozen talentedournalists. hat all came together or

s in 2012.Its gratiying to have the eforts o our

ewsroom recognized by our colleaguesn such a signicant way and serves to

conrm that were on the right track.ore important, it helps us rea rm our

commitment to always get better.However, the recognition rom our

eers would mean little without thesupport and trust o the more than70,000 eastern Idahoans who read thePost Register on a daily basis.

In many cases our companys rela-ionship with its customers amilies

dates back more than a century. Forhose amilies the Post Register haseen the paper where they shared the

announcement o their childrens births,sporting and scholastic accomplish-

ents, engagements and weddings.Its also where theyve marked the

assing o loved ones.Our reporting has made you laugh

and made you cry and, sometimes,ade you mad.

hrough it all the Post Registersemployees have worked hard to keepou inormed o whats going on inour neighborhoods and towns. Eachear the companys reporters and edi-ors produce thousands o local news

articles, most o which arent availableanywhere else.

he Post Register clearly relectshe pulse o the community and is not

araid to tackle the big stories, wroteone o the contests judges.

hats certainly what we aim to do

ecause were not just nameless, acelesscorporate drones. Were your neighbors,oo.

he Post Register has more than 140employees who are proud to call easternIdaho home.

So we hope youll join us in celebratinghis award, because its your award, too.

Awards are nice, but the most im-ortant thing is having someone to

share them with.Tank you or your continued support.

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INorio Abe livedin Ishinomaki, Japan,one of the hardest-hitcities in last yearstsunami. Today, Abelives with his sonand daughter-in-lawin St. Anthony.

BY SVEN [email protected]

ST. ANTHONY Norimasa Abe sent hisdaughter to Japan with

two return plane tickets andone simple instruction: Bringyour grandfather back toIdaho.

Norimasa Abe knew hisfather would resist. Worriedabout Norio Abes health andfaltering mobility, hed beentrying to convince his father tocome live with him in St.Anthony since long before theMarch 2011 tsunami struckIshinomaki.

But while the home thatNorio Abe built on a hillside inIshinomaki, Japan, after WorldWar II survived the disaster, itsuffered significant damage.With winter coming, the familywas convinced their patriarchshould relocate to easternIdahos cold but tsunami-freehigh desert.

So in December, NorimasaAbe played the most persua-sive card in his hand: hisdaughter, Miyai Abe Griggs.

If I went there, probably hewouldnt come, Norimasa Abesaid. Miyai went there, sothats why he listened.

Today, more than a year

after the tsunami killed almost4,000 Ishinomaki residents,Norio Abe lives in St. Anthonywith his son and daughter-in-law, Tsukiko Abe. He likesbeing around his family, andhes impressed when he seesAbe Griggs driving her hus-

bands truck, which is biggerthan anything hes used to see-ing.

But even at 86, hes a littlerestless.

Its so quiet here, hes kindof bored sometimes, AbeGriggs said.

Fish out of water

Norio Abe didnt knowabout the tsunami until he sawfish in the streets.

At 85, he slept through thedisaster, only waking to makesure a dresser in his home did-nt fall over during the earth-quake that preceded the del-uge. Earthquakes are common

Airportsees a

busy 1stquarterIA new service route toOakland debuts later thismonth and could providean even bigger boost totraffic at the I.F. airport.

BY CLARK [email protected]

With the economic slump behindthem, more people are boardingflights out of Idaho Falls than in theprevious three years.

Between January and March,35,334 people boarded commercialflights out of the Idaho Falls RegionalAirport. Thats a 4.8 percent increasefrom the same time frame in 2011,when 33,713 passengers hoppedaboard local flights.

The three-month period to openthe year also represented the busiestfirst quarter for the local airport since2008.

Its looking a little bit better, air-port Director Len Nelson said. Itsnot robust, but things are steady, andwere hoping to get another bumphere at the end of April.

On April 27, Las Vegas-basedAllegiant Air will launch a new com-

By the numbersNumber of passengers board-

ing flights at the Idaho FallsRegional Airport, Januarythrough March:I 2012: 35,334

I 2011: 33,713I 2010: 30,259I 2009: 32,978I 2008: 40,130

Source: Idaho Falls RegionalAirport

I Bonneville, Jefferson, Madison and Tetoncounties will test their problem-solving

skills during exercises that begin today.BY ZACH KYLE

[email protected]

Eastern Idaho and its surroundings arent immune to earth-quakes.

It wasnt that long ago geologically speaking that theQuake Lake earthquake hit southwestern Montana. The Aug. 17,1959, earthquake, which registered 7.3 on the Richter scale,killed 28 people and injured many more.

Less than a quarter-century later, the Borah Peak earthquake 6.9 on the Richter scale struck Custer County on Oct. 28,

1983. Two Challisschoolchildren werekilled by fallingdebris from a downtown

building.The Borah Peak earth-

quake is the largest everrecorded in Idaho, both in terms of magnitudeand in amount of propertydamage, according tothe U.S. GeologicalSurvey.

Imagine if that quakes epicenter were

Counties to stage mock earthquake disaster drills this weekDisaster exercises

TODAYTeton County

I School District 401 personnel will evac-uate to the Teton County Fairgrounds inDriggs at 1413 N. Highway 33, shelter by

American Red Cross.

I Teton Valley Hospital will prac-tice patient evacuation and setting

up an alternate care facility.

I Courthouse workers willevacuate to Apple today

EXERCISES, Continued on A5I Drill areas will be clearly marked to avoid confusion or panic

EARTHQUAKE, Continued on Page A5

I The airports director said he is stillconcerned about effects of fuel prices

AIRPORT, Continued on Page A5

Tsunami survivor reunited with family in E. Idaho

Monte LaOrange / [email protected]

Norio Abe was 85 when last years quake and tsunami hit Japans coast, where he lived.

Starting over

I Norio wasnt too excited aboutthe idea of moving to east Idaho

SURVIVOR, Continued on Page A3

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Norio Abe, right, talks about his experience after last yearsearthquake and tsunami hit his hometown. His grand-daughter Miyai Abe Griggs, center, was tasked with con-vincing him to move to the U.S. and live with his sonNorimasa Abe and daughter-in-law Tsukiko Abe.


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Three Hotshot crews and two water-oting bucket helicopters were deployed

Saturday night to battle nine small spotires that erupted in the Sunbeam areaast of Yankee Fork, where the 123,893-cre Halstead Fire was burning.

The spot fires, burning within a half-ile of each other, jumped across to the

ast side of Yankee Fork Road, ForestService spokesman Eric Mosley said.

By 10 p.m., the helicopters hadeturned to base and the fires appearednder control, Mosley said.

Hotshot crews are considered the elitef wildland firefighters. Each of the crewsressed into service Saturday night con-

ains 25 firefighters. They were expectedo remain in the area until early Sundayorning.

The Yankee Fork area of the Salmon-Challis National Forest remained undern evacuation order Saturday night, butosley said no homes or other structures

were immediately threatened.

There are not a lot of structures in the(spot fire) area, Mosley said. Most of thehomes are south of (state) Highway 75.

While flames remain visible fromHighway 75, the roadway reopenedSaturday and was not threatened by thespot fires, Mosley said. Nor did smoke

IWinds first helped, thenhampered firefighters atthe Mustang Complex fire.

The Cost of Fire

BY ZACH [email protected]

NORTH FORK The biggerthe wildfire, the more shovels,vehicles and food needed to fightit.

That also means more comput-ers, more paperwork, more plan-ning, and hundreds of other itemsand personnel critical to theeffort.

As the growing MustangComplex topped the 200,000-acremark, the incident center thatsprang up in North Fork grewwith it.

About 800 people were incamp Thursday. Many will never

see the Mustang. Their jobs security, parking, technical sup-port, shower maintenance andeverything else keep firefight-ers digging fire lines and defend-ing homes, U.S. Forest Service

spokesman Lynn Ballard said.You basically create a small

town and try to take care of allthose needs of the firefightersyou put on the ground, he said.

A U.S. map posted in the inci-dent center was full of pushpinsrepresenting the hometowns ofthe transient campers.

Colorful dots spread acrossthe map. Nearly every stateboasted a pushpin.

Perhaps one was for TimMarshall, 38, who runs the 19-person food crew.

They work for StewartsFirefighter Food Catering, whichis based in Pendleton, Ore.Stewarts contracts with the fed-eral government. Sometimes,Stewarts heads to natural disas-ters such as Hurricane Katrina.

During fire season, Marshalls

and other crews head to fires.This summer, his crew fed per-sonnel at fire incident centers inRockersville and Edgemont, S.D.

He said the team was home forfour hours before getting ordersto head to McCall.

The Mustang is the crewsfourth fire. Theyve been in North

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I Hundreds work behind the scenes in supportroles to keep the firefighters on the frontlines.

Massive crew battles the Mustang Complex fire

I Firefighters need to eat about7,000 calories a day

SUPPORT, Continued on Page A4

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A meadow near North Fork serves as the temporary home forpersonnel fighting the Mustang Complex fire.

BY ALEX [email protected]

F

ederal agencies have spent anestimated $55.5 million fighting

the three fires MustangComplex, Trinity Ridge and Halstead that have combined to torch morethan 466,000 acres.

And with fire season only halfwayover, it seems it wont be man thatstops this years fires, but winters firstsnow.

All told, the fires searing throughIdaho have surpassed 1.1 million acres,or about 1,700 square miles. Thatsabout 200 square miles larger thanRhode Island.

Its the largest fire season since2007, when 2.3 million acres burnedstatewide, said Emily Anderson, Idaho

Department of Lands spokeswoman.

But with a fire season that couldreach well into October, this yearsfires could surpass that acreage,Anderson said.

Weve been on a trend towardincreasing fires and increasing severi-ties for quite some time, said AdamSowards, a University of Idaho profes-

sor. That is a result of not just thedrought and climate change, but alsobecause of fire suppression.

State fire officials dont see it com-ing to an end any time soon.

The bigger the fire gets, the longer

Weve been on a trend toward increasing fires andincreasing severities for quite some time. That is a result of

not just the drought and climate change, but also because offire suppression.

ADAM SOWARDSA University of Idaho professor

As Idaho wildfires get bigger, so does the price of fighting them

I Congress gave about $2.29 billion tothe U.S. Forest Service for fires

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I Gusty winds are expected to dropignificantly today

FIRES, Continued on Page A4

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BY PATRICK ORRIdaho Statesman

Its been a decade since some MountainHome airmen made a grisly discovery ontheir way to a remote fishing hole on theSnake River.

Those men found the burned-out shellof a late 1990s Pontiac Grand Am in the

Elmore County desert. Three bodies wereinside the wreckage, burned beyondrecognition.

What they didnt knowwas the charred remainswere those of 29-year-oldRebecca Ramirez and twoof her sons, 4-year-oldRicardo and 2-year-oldMiguel.

Rebecca Ramirez andher sons were shot, killedand then set on fire mostlikely on July 30, 2002 to cover up whathappened. Their remains werent founduntil Aug. 11 of that year.

By that time, the man Elmore Countysheriffs deputies say was responsible for

this nightmare circumstance was eitherin California or had already left the UnitedStates, helped by family members to getback to his native Mexico.

On Monday, a jury of Elmore Countyresidents will begin to determine the fateof Jorge Alberto Lopez-Orozco a one-time member of the FBIs 10 Most WantedList and the focus of a segment ofAmericas Most Wanted TV show.

Orozco, who was on the run for sevenyears before he was caught in Mexico in2009, will spend the next six weeks on trialfor three counts of first-degree murder. Iffound guilty, its doubtful he will ever leaveprison again.

Elmore County investigators have saidthat Rebecca Ramirez and Lopez-Orozco

had an on-again, off-again affair that waswell-known in the community, thoughLopez-Orozcos wife may not have beenaware of it. Friends of Ramirez say sheplanned to end the relationship withOrozco when she found out he was mar-ried.

The morning of July 30, 2002, Orozcopicked up Ramirez and her two youngestfrom Ramirezs fathers house in Nyssa.No one saw them again until the grisly dis-covery almost two weeks later.

Preparing for trialA group of about 300 prospective jurors

that gathered at the Mountain Home ElksLodge earlier this month to fill out ques-

tionnaires about the case has been whit-tled down to 12 jurists and three alter-nates.

That jury will hear testimony fromdetectives, FBI agents, prisoners who havetalked to Orozco in jail and some ofRamirezs surviving children. Prosecutorshave a list of about 50 potential witnesses.

IAn Elmore County murdertrial comes more than 10years after the grisly killingof a mother and her sons.

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BY RUTH [email protected]

As Holly Galbraithssilver Suburban toppledend over end down themountainside, she wassure she and the sevengirls riding with herwould die.

The morning of Nov. 5,2011, Galbraiths vehiclehit a patch of black ice onPine Creek pass. Her2004 Chevrolet swervedto the left and jumped theguardrail, sending themairborne as the vehicleplummeted off a 150-footcliff.

We went end over endmultiple times and the

girls were screaming,Galbraith said. I remem-ber going through treesand bushes and every-thing went dark becausewe were in the dark.

It was terrifying.The vehicle landed

right-side up, whichGalbraith said was a mir-acle, but four of the eightpeople inside were seri-ously injured.

When the vehicle final-ly came to rest, all eightbegan to pray.

They were trapped,disoriented and withoutcellphone reception.

I was trying to hold ittogether, but I was in a lotof pain and didnt want tobreak down in front of the

girls, Galbraith said.It wasnt long before

their prayers wereanswered. An army ofpeople had gathered atthe scene. They set up a

system of ropes and pul-leys and used their man-power to pull the crashvictims up the steep

mountainside, Galbraithsaid.

The rescuers includedBonneville CountySheriffs Office backcoun-try patrol deputies.

Tom Clawson, a mem-ber of BonnevilleCountys search and res-cue team, was part of the

response team atGalbraiths accident. Heremembers the momentthe backcountry deputiescame flying up to thescene.

Justice

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Orozco

I Orozco was finally captured in Mexiconear the town of Zihuatanejo

DELAYED Continued on Page A5

I Sheriffs backcountry deputies play a different role than those in the city.

Photo courtesy of the Bonneville County Sheriffs Office

Holly Galbraiths Suburban plummeted off a 150-foot cliff after she hit apatch of black ice near Pine Creek pass on Nov. 5, 2011. The vehicle land-ed right-side up, which Galbraith said was a miracle, but four of the eightpeople inside were seriously injured. The Bonneville County Sheriffs Officebackcountry patrol deputies helped in the rescue.

I Deputies also assist insearches and rescues

PATROL, Continued on Page A4

Pat Sutphin / [email protected]

The Bonneville County backcountry patrol unit poses for a portrait with some of the vehicles it uses for rescuesin Swan Valley.

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BY DAN POPKEYIdaho Statesman

Last week, Idaho Rep. Raul Labradorjoined Mitt Romneys Spanish-speakingson on a trip aimed at wooing Hispanic vot-ers in Colorado and Nevada.

For Romney to win those swing statesand Florida, Labrador said, the presidentialhopeful must best JohnMcCains 31 percentshare of the Hispanic votein 2008 by 5 to 10 points.

Labrador joined CraigRomney and HectorBarreto in pitchingHispanic business groupsin Lakewood, Colo., onWednesday and Las Vegas

on Thursday.Barreto led the SmallBusiness Administrationunder President George W. Bush. The trioalso spoke with Spanish- and English-lan-guage media, making the case for Romneyon economic grounds.

The message is we cant continue to dothe same things that Obama has beendoing that brought us a higher unemploy-ment rate, more people in poverty, morepeople suffering, Labrador told theStatesman.

The freshman congressman is part ofJuntos con Romney, or Together withRomney, and appeared in a national con-vention video with seven other HispanicGOP officials.

Labrador joins other top Idaho

Republicans in doing more than justendorsements.

Gov. C.L. Butch Otter campaigned forRomney in Nevada and attended the con-vention in Tampa. While there, Otter jaw-boned reporters and delivered a football signed by Boise State coach Chris Petersenand his players to Foxs Sean Hannity.

I Romneys ties to Idaho

could give the state someinfluence if he wins.

While its only one ofthe 17 choices, the

Bureau of ReclamationsRobert Schattin ack-nowledged the alterna-tive is in the forefront ofthe publics minds be-cause of the dams fatalfailure 36 years ago.

We like to focus onhow broad this study is,Schattin said. But I

know everyone wants tofocus on Teton Dam.

He said the topicspassion is illustrated inthe number of peoplewho attend meetings.Normally, its a handful,but thats not the casewith the Teton Dam onthe table.

We have 45 to 50people coming to every

meeting. We have irriga-tors from irrigation com-panies, as well as peoplefrom state and federalagencies. Weve beenvery pleased at the pro-fessional level of thelocal work groups thatare participating.

The dams 1976 fail-ure killed 11 people, trig-gered 200 landslides and

caused $2 billion inproperty damage.Its impossible to

determine whether re-building Teton Damwould be best for waterusers, Trout UnlimitedsIdaho Water ProjectDirector Kim Trottersaid, because Recla-

mation has not said howmuch water storage isneeded.

This is a big point forus because they havent,to date, been able toquantify how muchtheyre trying to store orsave in the system, shesaid. Are we saying ourneeds are endless? ... Dowe need 100,000 acre-

feet of storage? A mil-lion? Are we trying tomeet the needs of peoplejust within the basin?Are we trying to meetneeds of irrigators? The

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Rebuilding the Teton Dam is one of 17 alternatives toincreasing available water supplies in the Henrys Fork Basin

DammingAlternatives

BY CHRISTINA [email protected]

irst there were as many as 40options on the table.

Those were whittled down to17.Now, the U.S. Bureau of

Reclamation aims to furtherreduce the number of viable

options to increase available water sup-plies in the Henrys Fork Basin. Theresults will be available in an interimreport that should be made public nextmonth.

Rebuilding the Teton Dam is amongthe alternatives.

FMore InsideI The idea of rebuilding the Teton Dam is a scary

thought for some of those who lived through thedams collapse and ensuing flood in 1976. SEE A4

Robert Bower file / [email protected]

Engineers and scientists pilot a small boat toward the remains of the Teton Dam after its failure in1976. The dams reservoir was being filled for the first time when it failed and released a flood thatimpacted much of eastern Idaho.

I Some say building moredams is not the answer

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BY BILL ROBERTSIdaho Statesman

In June 2009, as Idahos unemploy-ment rate hit 7.4 percent and foreclosuresseemed to gobble up whole subdivisions,Moodys Analytics delivered some hope.

Idaho, the economic analysis firm said,would be one of five states to lead thecountry out of recession, albeit slowly.And life would start to improve by 2010.

By the third quarter of this year,employment in Boise would be at prere-cession levels, Moodys predicted. Thestates tech industry, hit by layoffs of 3,500Micron Technology Inc. employees inBoise in 2008 and 2009, would be revived.And the state would cash in on its popula-tion growth, which helped it during boomtimes.

Thats not how it turned out.

In 2011, Idaho averaged 49,400 techjobs, 51 more jobs than in 2009, accordingto the Idaho Department of Labor.

Idahos population grew less than 1percent in 2011, far off the 2 to 3 percentthe state averaged in prerecession years.

As for Boise getting back to prereces-sion employment by the third quarter ofthis year? Moodys now says it could bemid-2014.

Boise is outperforming the country injob creation, said Timothy Daigle, who fol-lows Idaho for Moodys Analytics. Butoverall job creation is kind of disappoint-ing. Everything is happening slower thanwe originally thought.

Moodys wasnt the only forecaster tomiss Idahos mark. Here is a look at whatforecasters said then and how those

forecasts look today.

Who missed the recession

The states April 2007 economic fore-cast projected through 2010. DerekSantos, now the states chief economist,wrote then, Idahos housing starts willnot collapse over the forecast period.

I State prognosticators saythey have learned lessonson how to foreseethe next financial abyss.

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Signed into law March 23, 2010,the law is being phased in and wontbe fully enacted until Jan. 1, 2015.

The health care reform packagedoes many things, as outlined in thelengthy legislation that totals morethan 900 pages.

Following are a few highlights,based on information provided byIdaho Falls attorney John Simmons,The Henry J. Kaiser Family Found-ation, The National Conference of

State Legislatures and www.healthcare.gov.Once fully enacted, health care

reform will:

I Require most people to buyhealth insurance coverage by 2014.There are exceptions for membersof religious faiths that oppose healthcoverage, American Indian tribesand individuals who do not earnenough to file a tax return (less than$9,350 in 2010 when the law was

passed).I Require larger companies

(those with 50 full-time equivalentemployees or more) to provideinsurance for their employees.I Impose financial penalties on

many individuals and larger busi-nesses that do not buy insuranceand comply with mandates.I Create heath insurance

exchanges online sites wherefamilies and businesses may go to

compare coverage side-by-side andpurchase insurance.I Expand Medicaid eligibility to

patients at 133 percent of the pover-ty level (about $14,000 for an indi-vidual).

I Prevent insurance companiesfrom placing lifetime or annual lim-its on the amount of money theyspend on patient benefits.I Prevent insurance companies

from declining coverage based onpre-existing medical conditions or a

patients gender.I Cap the cost of insurance pre-

miums offered through employers at9.5 percent of the employeesincome.I Offer tax credits to help many

individuals pay for insurance premi-ums. Credits will be available forpeople at up to 400 percent of thepoverty level (about $43,000 for anindividual, about $88,000 for a fami-

ly of four).IAllow parents to keep depend-ent children enrolled in their healthinsurance plan through age 26 regardless of college or marital sta-tus so long as the child does nothave access to insurance through anemployer.

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What will it cost?

Will my premiums go up?Do I have to have health insurance?What does it mean for my small business?

When does it start?

What does it mean for my family?

What does it cover?

What if I cant affordhealth insurance?

How do I learn more?

What does it

mean for Idaho?

Can I keep my adult

children on my policy?

ts legal name is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.Some people call it Obamacare, often pejoratively, in reference to

President Barack Obama, who pushed it through Congress.In a 5-4 ruling, United States Supreme Court justices declared it

constitutional.Whatever your preferred term, there is no denying Obamas reformpackage is changing health care for families and businesses.

BY CLARK CORBIN [email protected]

I

I Some say the new law does not gofar enough to provide affordable care

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I More Idaho data than federal date nowgoes into the forecasting mechanism

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Masterstrokes

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The Olympic flame is lit during the OpeningCeremony of the 2012 Olympic Summer Games atthe Olympic Stadium in London on Friday.

EIRMC is 1 of only 2 Idaho hospitals with

Advanced Certification for stroke treatment

Robert Bower / rbow [email protected]

Dr. Chris Harker, right, shows Evona Young how a team at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Centerrestored the flow of blood to her brain after she had a stroke in January.

A brilliant

beginning

LONDON (AP) Thequeen and James Bondgave the London Olympicsa royal entrance like noother Friday in an openingceremony that rolled to therock of the Beatles, theStones and The Who.

And the creative genius

of Danny Boyle spliced it alltogether.Brilliant. Cheeky, too.The highlight of the

Oscar-winning directors$42 million show was puremovie magic, using trickeryto make it seem that Brit-ains beloved 86-year-oldQueen Elizabeth II hadparachuted into the stadi-um with the nations mostfamous spy.

A short film showedDaniel Craig as 007 drivingto Buckingham Palace in ablack London cab and, pur-sued by the royal corgis,meeting the queen, whoplayed herself.

Good evening, Mr.Bond, she said.They were shown flying

in a helicopter over Londonlandmarks and a wavingstatue of Winston Churchill the queen in a salmon-colored dress, Bond dash-ing as ever in a black tuxe-do before leaping intothe inky night over OlympicPark.

At the same moment,real skydivers appeared asthe stadium throbbed to theJames Bond theme. Andmoments after that, the

monarch appeared in per-son, accompanied by herhusband, Prince Philip.

Organizers said it wasthought to be the first timeshe has acted on film.

The queen made her-self more accessible than

ever before, Boyle said.In the stadium, Eliza-beth stood solemnly while achildrens choir serenadedher with God Save theQueen, and members ofthe Royal Navy, Army andRoyal Air Force raised theUnion Jack.

Boyle sprang anothergiant surprise and pickedseven teenage athletes forthe supreme honor of ignit-

I Doctors use a dissolving agent to attack dangerous brain clots.BY ZACH KYLE

[email protected]

Evona Young of Pinegree felt a lit-tle incredulous as she stared at theprojection of the blocked blood ves-sel in her brain Thursday.

Chris Harker, an interventionalradiologist at Eastern Idaho Region-al Medical Center, pointed at wherethe blood clot lodged in the vein,causing a stroke.

Its a little freaky, said Young,56. I just thank God that I camehere.

Strokes are scary business andcan cause brain damage, permanent

disability and death.No stroke is a good stroke, but ifit does happen, Harker said EIRMCis the place to be.

No other regional hospital couldhave treated Young as effectively, hesaid.

Within 20 minutes of reaching thehospital, a CT scan revealed the clotin the left side of her brain. In anoth-er 15 minutes, doctors snaked amicro catheter into Youngs brainthrough the cerebral artery.

A dissolving agent was releasedthat attacked the clot and restoredflow to the oxygen-starved portion ofYoungs brain.

The hospital boasts a handful ofhigh-tech devices that remove ordestroy clots and experts such asHarker trained to use them. Thatswhy EIRMC was given the Gold Seal

of Approval by the Joint Commis-sion, an independent health carefacility certification group.

The hospital also was granted Ad-vanced Certification as a PrimaryStroke Center.

Portneuf Medical Center in Poca-tello and Bingham Memorial inBlackfoot also have received goldseals, but EIRMC is the only Idahohospital outside of Boise withAdvanced Certification.

(The certification) means thehospital is following the best prac-tices for stroke care, commissionspokeswoman Elizabeth Zhani said.They have to meet (stringent) re-

quirements.The best doctors and gadgets are

worthless if a stroke patient doesntreach the hospital.

Time is of the essence. Patientsmust arrive at a hospital within threehours of suffering the stroke in orderto receive in-brain treatment likeYoung did, Harker said.

The brain deteriorates more rap-idly about six hours after onset. Thesituation is exacerbated if the clot islocated in the brain stem or a major

Blackfoot School District to offer Shoshoni classesBLACKFOOT (AP) Seeking

to preserve the heritage of theShoshoni, the Blackfoot SchoolDistrict has decided to offer class-es in Shoshoni language and cul-ture.

The districts governing boardmet Thursday and said the cours-es will be offered at BlackfootHigh School during the upcomingschool year. The classes are partof efforts to preserve the Sho-shoni language among youths,board member Peter Lipovacsaid.

The Shoshoni classes are the

result of a statewide push to help

save Shoshoni language and cul-ture in the state, Lipovac told theIdaho State Journal.

Tribal members petitionedearly this year to build a Shoshonicharter school for students in kin-dergarten through sixth gradesbut that effort failed to gain trac-tion in Bingham and Bannockcounties, where the Blackfoot andPocatello school districts declinedto provide funding.

Charter schools are fundedwith public money but givenmore freedom in how they oper-ate and often have a particular

focus.

Our decision to implementthe classes isnt the direct resultof the Shoshoni charter schoolfailing to get approved here,Lipovac said.

The proposal to build a Sho-shoni charter school in Fort Hallis still alive.

Proposed charter schools canseek approval through their localschool districts, or throughIdahos Public Charter SchoolCommission, which falls underthe state Board of Education.Thats where tribal members

have taken their petition.

State officials are expected toreach a decision by the end ofSeptember.

The Shoshoni language of-fered at Blackfoot High Schoolwill not be as concentrated atthose proposed at the Fort Hallcharter school, Lipovac said.

The courses at BlackfootHigh will not be immersion cours-es, Lipovac said. An immersioncourse is when the course materi-al is taught in the language beinglearned. The Fort Hall charterschool is proposed to be an

immersion school.

The Shoshoniclasses are the result

of a statewide push tohelp save Shoshoni

language and culturein the state.

PETER LIPOVAC

Blackfoot school board

member

Toby Melville / Associated Press

Britains Queen Eliza-beth II, center, PrincePhilip, right, and IOCPresident JacquesRogge, left, attend theOpening Ceremony ofthe 2012 Olympic Sum-mer Games at the Olym-pic Stadium in Londonon Friday.

I The OpeningCeremony kickedoff the LondonOlympics withroyalty and rock.

Stroke symptomsTime is of the essence in

stroke treatment. Call 911 imme-diately if you or someone elseexperiences the following symp-toms:I

Sudden numbness, tingling,weakness or loss of movement inthe face, arm or leg, especially onthe left side of your body.I Blurred vision.I Slurred or garbled speech.I Confusion or trouble under-

standing simple statements.I Sudden problems with bal-

ance or walking.

I The hospital has received 206stroke patients in the past 12 months

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BY MEGHANN M. CUNIFF

Idaho Statesman

The Boy Scouts of America documentednumerous incidents of sexually abusivescoutmasters, but for years they continued tomove freely within the organizations ranks.

The so-called perversion files, made pub-lic for the first time last month, show it wascommon for pedophiles to move from onetroop to another because the secretive nature

of the documents made it difficult for Scoutofficials to know who had been in troubleelsewhere.

Leaders also could leave Scouting and getinvolved in other youth activities anywhere inthe country because there was no way for

other organizations to access the files,which the Scoutshad kept since atleast 1920.

Earlier thismonth, a federallawsuit was settledinvolving a manwho claimed he wassexually abusedwhile a member ofa Boy Scout troop

in Nampa. The casedated back to themid-1960s andearly 1970s.

At issue was notthe alleged sexualabuse by Scout-master Larren B.Arnold, but whatOregon attorneyGilion Dumasdescribed as institu-tional fraud by thenational Scoutingorganization, Ore-Ida Council of theBoy Scouts and TheChurch of Jesus

Christ of Latter-daySaints.

Dumas craftedthe legal argumentafter reviewingthousands of docu-ments released bythe Boy Scouts in response to another lawsuitfiled by the law firm for which she works inOregon.

The lawsuit contended the organizationsportrayed Scouting as a safe place for boysdespite knowledge of a pedophilia epidemicwithin its leadership ranks.

Dumas represented the man who filed thelawsuit, described only as Tom Doe in courtdocuments.

Everyone involved in the case agreed notto disclose details of the settlement. The law-suit originally sought $5 million. A documentfiled Nov. 15 in U.S. District Court in Boiseindicated that both sides agreed to an undis-closed monetary settlement.

Lawyers for the church and Ore-IdaCouncil were not available for commentFriday.

I Boy Scouts secret files onpedophilia date back to 1920s.

Substance abuse a contributing factor in upto 80 percent of Idaho foster care cases

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EDITORS NOTE: This is the 11thinstallment of a yearlong seriesexamining the effects of addiction.

BY CHRISTINA LORDS

[email protected]

The tentacles of a substanceabusers addiction also wrapthemselves around his or herfamily, friends and co-workers.

But its difficult to argue thatanyone is more adversely affect-ed than the children of addicts.

That reality is evident withinIdahos foster care system.

Substance abuse is a con-tributing factor in up to 80 per-cent of the cases of Idaho chil-dren entering foster care everyyear.

According to the Adoption andFoster Care Analysis andReporting System, for every1,000 children in the state in2010, an average of 3.3 entered

foster care.That means up to 1,110 chil-

dren of the 1,388 who enteredfoster care in 2010 were affectedby substance abuse.

Too many Idaho children aredependent on drug- or alcohol-abusing parents who, because oftheir addiction, are incapable ofproperly caring for their children,according to Department ofHealth and Welfare Child Welfare

program specialist ValerieBurgess and treatment providersthroughout the state.

The problem is complex andcannot be solved without morefunding.

Finding fundingSubstance-abuse treatment

funding for parents with children

in foster care is becoming harderand harder to come by, Burgesssaid.

The problem is were not theonly program wanting substance-abuse funding, she said. It getsreally hard to provide treatmentwhen 80 percent of your familieshave substance abuse, one wayor another, in the mix. Clearly

Extra insightJan. 29: Consequences of meth

felt across societytinyurl.com/addiction-part-1Feb. 26: Abuse of prescription

drugs is a local, national problemtinyurl.com/addiction-part-2March 25: Movies, ads mask

truth about alcohol abusetinyurl.com/addiction-part-3

April 29: Former drug abuser

focusing on staying cleantinyurl.com/addiction-part-4May 27: Slow suicide: Battle

with alcoholism takes toll on I.F.woman

tinyurl.com/addiction-part-5June 24: Meth, crack addiction

gripped womans life for nearlythree decades

tinyurl.com/addiction-part-6

July 29: Sobering Story: I.F.

man recovering from alcohol addic-tiontinyurl.com/addiction-part-7Aug. 26: Breaking bad habitstinyurl.com/addiction-part-8Sept. 30: A different approachtinyurl.com/addiction-part-9Oct. 28: Meth from Mexico pres-

ents new challenges in drug wartinyurl.com/pr-mexico-meth

I Eastern Idaho lacks treatmentfunding and treatment facilities

FOSTER, Continued on Page A4

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secrets

Extra insightI Nov. 16:Settlementreached in BoyScouts abusecasehttp://tinyurl.com/abuse-settlement

I Read the BoyScouts statementwww.scouting.org/s

itecore/content/BSAYouthProtection/BSA_Communications/IVFileStatement.aspx

I In 1966, at least 1,000 files existed thatpertained to adults abusing young Scouts

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Learn the lingo:Mars terminology

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) Fascinatedby NASAs latest Mars mission and plan-ning to tune in?

Well, good luck understanding thespace agencys everyday lingo, whichresembles a sort of Martian alphabet soup.

In the highly specialized world of space-craft engineering, there are many movingparts and pieces not to mentionprocesses. Names and descriptions areoften reduced to acronyms and abbrevia-tions, which are faster to string together ina sentence but can end up soundingdownright alien.

So if you want to know whether MSLwill nail the EDL and what it can do on dif-ferent sols, you have to learn the language.

BY ZACH [email protected]

Nobody knows what secretsNASAs Mars rover Curiosity willuncover after it lands on the Red

Planet if all goes as planned at11:31 p.m. Sunday.

About the size of a car, Curiosity willroam a crater, taking and analyzingsamples that could uncover traces oflife, water and other mysteries.

The electricity powering Curiositystwo-year mission traces back to easternIdaho and a team at Idaho NationalLaboratory.

In simple terms, Curiosity runs, inpart, on a $100 million nuclear batterydeveloped at the lab, said StephenJohnson, division director of SpaceNuclear Systems and Technology.

The 2-foot-tall, 2-foot in diametercylinder aboard Curiosity is packed withradioactive isotopes generating heat.That thermal energy is converted intothe electricity fueling Curiositys wheels,arms and other gadgets, as well asrecharging its bank of lithium-ion bat-teries.

In technical terms,its called a Multi-

Mission Radioisotope ThermoelectricGenerator.

People call it a battery,but its actually a power sys-tem because it doesnt need

I The success of NASAs Mars rover Curiosity, which lands Sunday,will trace back to a team at INL that developed its nuclear power system.

Beckclearedof fraudIA jury found BonnevilleGOP leader Doyle Beckinnocent of improperlyprofiting from the DarenPalmer Ponzi scheme.

BY MIKE [email protected]

Idaho Falls businessman andBonneville County Republican Partyleader Doyle Beck was cleared of fraud

Friday in connection with a lawsuitclaiming he had improperly profitedfrom Daren Palmers illegal Ponzischeme.

It was a great result for Mr. Beck,defense attorney Bryan Smith said. Thejury found that he didnt engage in fraudand (that) he had acted in good faith.

In February 2010, court receiverWayne Klein sued Doyle Beck in federalcourt, alleging Beck received $555,000 inimproper and fraudulent payments fromPalmers company, Trigon Group,through Palmers brother-in-law, DuaneYost. Beck denied the accusations, claim-ing he never personally dealt withPalmer or Trigon.

The civil lawsuit played out this weekin U.S. District Court in Pocatello.

Reached after the verdict Friday,Klein said the lawsuit never claimedBeck had engaged in fraudulent activi-ties. Instead, Klein said the fraudulentactivity occurred when Trigon trans-ferred money to Yost.

We proved that the $555,000 came

Larry Craig

defends hiscampaignmoney useI The FEC is suing theformer senator for usingelections funds for personaluse during the defenseof his 2007 sex-sting bust.

JOHN MILLERAssociated Press

BOISE Former Republican U.S.Sen. Larry Craig aims to fend off a fed-eral election lawsuitagainst him by arguinghis infamous July 11,2007, Minneapolis airportbathroom visit that endedin his sex-sting arrest waspart of his official Senatebusiness.

Craig is hoping toavoid repaying $217,000in campaign funds theFederal Election Commission says hemisused to defend himself.

The FEC sued Craig in June in U.S.

District Court in Washington, D.C., alleg-ing he converted the campaign money topersonal use by spending it on his legaldefense after he was accused of solicit-ing sex in a Minneapolis-St. PaulInternational Airport bathroom. The

Craig

I Craig cites a U.S. Senate rule on reim-bursable per diem expenses in his defense

CRAIG, Continued on Page A5

I Ultimately, the jury did decide that Beckshould repay only $55,000

BECK, Continued on Page A5

Degree of difficultyThe capsule holding the

NASA Mars rover Curiosity

will enter the Red Planetsatmosphere at 2,000 mph.The capsule will undergo a

complex process involving aparachute and rockets beforehovering above the surface

and setting the rover down ona tether. Check out NASAsvideo about the landing at

tinyurl.com/curiositylanding.

I 6 years spent on projectMARS, Continued on Page A5

I Lingo is even jarring to other scientistsLINGO, Continued on Page A5


Stephen Johnson, director of Space Nuclear Systems and Technology at Idaho National Laboratory, describes someof the testing procedures involved with the radioisotope power generator that was built and tested at INL.

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Artists rendering of Mars rover CuriosityAssociated Press

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BYVINCE DEVLINThe Missoulian

MISSOULA, Mont. The openingand closing lines of Norman MacleansA River Runs Through It are amongthe most beautiful words ever strung

together.Robert Redford knew it, and as he

turned the novella into cinema back in1991, there was no question the directorwould open and close withMacleans words:

In our family, there was no clear linebetween religion and fly fishing.

When actors Craig Sheffer, Brad Pittand Tom Skerritt were done portrayingNorman and his family on film, the nar-rator would finish with a lone old manin a river:

(But when I am alone) in the half-

light of the canyon, all existence fades toa being with my soul and memories andthe sounds of the Big Blackfoot Riverand a four-count rhythm and the hopethat a fish will rise.

Eventually, all things merge into one,

and a river runs through it. The riverwas cut by the worlds great flood andruns over rocks from the basement oftime. On some of the rocks are timelessraindrops. Under the rocks are thewords, and some of the words aretheirs.

The narrator pauses before repeatingMacleans last line:

I am haunted by waters.

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A RIVER STILL RUNSTHROUGH IT

Courtesy James Nelson / MtnSportsPhoto.com

An angler fly-fishes for trout during an autumn day on the upper Blackfoot River within the Blackfoot River WildlifeManagement Area in eastern Idaho.

The Montana-based filmbrought enthusiasts fromaround the world tothe Yellowstone region.

BY ZACH KYLE

[email protected]

Fly-fishing, of course, existed in easternIdaho before A River Runs Through It hitthe silver screen in 1992.

But the movie brought an influx of out-of-state anglers to the area and helpedsupport two of the areas oldest fly shops.

Henrys Fork Anglers in Island Parkopened in 1977.

Jimmy Gabettas, owner of Jimmys AllSeasons Angler in Idaho Falls, opened hisfirst fly shop in Pocatello in 1979.

Gabettas said River didnt affectlocals who always knew the fly-fishinghere was stellar. But the movie drew a gen-eration of out-of-state fly-fishermen to

BY ALEX [email protected]

Americans think little of flickingon a light or cranking up the air con-ditioning.

That is, until the power goes outor electricity prices go up.

To prevent either of those thingsfrom happening, a continuedemphasis needs to be placed onnuclear energy, said Marv Fertel,Nuclear Energy Institute presidentand chief executive officer.

Electricity is the lifeblood of civ-ilization, Fertel said. We need tocontinue to provide electricity, andwe need to do it without air pollu-tants. (Nuclear energy) will be a big

player.Fertel was just one of many

nuclear experts to present their sug-gestions to Gov. C.L. Butch OttersLeadership in Nuclear EnergyCommission on Friday.

Commission members arecharged with making recommenda-tions to Otter about how to keepIdaho National Laboratory, as wellas the states broader nuclear indus-try, relevant.

The importance of safety,research capabilities and cybersecu-rity were common themes shared bythe speakers.

To improve the countrys focuson nuclear energy, both Fertel and

Kristine Svinicki, a commissionerfor the U.S. Nuclear RegulatoryCommission, said developing evensafer storage techniques for spentfuel and nuclear waste is key.

And the labs testing capabilitiesmake it an important resource in theadvancement of nuclear energy. Itallows computer models developedat universities to be tested.

It is beneficial for nuclear powergoing forward, Svinicki said.

Westinghouses nuclear divisionrelies on INLs research facilities inits work, said John Goossen, thecompanys vice president of innova-tion and small modular reactordevelopment.

We dont have the research facil-

ities we used to have, Goossen said.INL helps fill the gap.

Shrinking governmental budgetsmake such tests increasingly diffi-cult, so Fertel urged the commission

IThe LINE Commissionheard from top expertsabout safety, researchand cybersecurity duringa meeting Friday heldin Idaho Falls.

River bolstered localfly-shop economy

Expertsdiscussnuclearenergy

Extra insightI Feb. 2 Panel will explore

role of nuclear energy in IDtinyurl.com/LINE

Commission-createdIMay 17 Commission eye-

ing 1995 spent fuel agreementtinyurl.com/1995-agreementIMay 19 INL tours com-

pletetinyurl.com/INL-toursIMay 20 INL pitches state

ownership of labtinyurl.com/INL-pitch

I The future of cybersecurity wasone of the big topics at the meeting

LINE, Continued on Page A5

I The interest in the sport was good forbusiness, but it also meant more anglers

FLY-FISHING Continued on Page A3

I The fly-fishing industry saw a 60percent increase when the movie came out

RIVER, Continued on Page A3

Michael Gallacher / Missoulian

John Maclean has been fishing all his life. You could say fishing is in hisblood. Johns father, Norman Maclean, who wrote River Runs Through Itcalled his son John, one of the finest fisherman, Im sure, of his generation.So it was with great regret back in 2005, that John accidentally killed thelargest cutthroat trout he had ever caught. It has bothered him ever since.

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The fears of supporters ofSuperintendent of Public Instruction TomLunas 2011 school reforms were realizedin a new poll conducted for the IdahoStatesman.

Propositions 1and 2 were close Prop. 1 trailedby 4 percentagepoints whileProp. 2 wasahead by 3points. Prop. 3was behind by 7points.

But relativelyhigh numbers ofvoters remained

undecided - abad sign forLuna, Mason-Dixon pollsterBrad Coker said.

Those voterstypically breakby a 3-to-1 or 4-to-1 margin forthe no vote.

The fact thatall the results areclose is mislead-ing, Coker said.The truth is thatall three face astiff uphill battle.All things beingequal, they are

likely to lose bymargins muchlarger than whatthese numbersshow.

Coker pointedto lukewarmsupport amongLunas fellowRepublicans forthe laws thaterase union bar-gaining rights,provide bonusesto about 80 percent of teachers and man-date online courses and laptops for everyhigh school student.

Proponents are going to have to out-spend the opponents by a large margin toconvince Republican voters to get behindthese propositions.

Through Sept. 30, proposition oppo-nents raised more money than propo-nents, $1.38 million to $501,000.

That news prompted Melaleuca CEOFrank VanderSloot, whos already spentmore than $200,000, to say hell boost his

IA poll shows that supportis soft for Props 1, 2 and 3.

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EDITORS NOTE: Todays articles are thefinal installments in a four-article series pre-viewing Propositions 1, 2 and 3 in advance ofElection Day.


Tom Luna and Mike Lanza are two ofthe most visible faces in the StudentsCome First debate leading up to Election

Day.Luna, Idaho superintendent of public

instruction, is the architect of the threeeducation reform laws that lawmakersapproved during a contentious 2011 ses-sion.

Lanza, co-founder of Idaho Parentsand Teachers Together and chairman ofVote No on Propositions 1, 2, 3, leads withthe advocacy groups trying to convince

voters to dismantle the three laws Nov. 6.Both participated in multiple inter-

views with the Post Register over the pasttwo months, describing the laws and theireffect on teachers, students and class-

rooms. Their responses, edited for length,follow.

TOM LUNAIdaho superintendent of public instruction

POST REGISTER: What does a vote tokeep the three Students Come First meas-ures mean?

TOM LUNA: It means were continu-

ing down the path we started on almosttwo years ago to bring the education sys-tem into the 21st century, compensateteachers based not only on how long theyhave taught or how much education theyhave accumulated. They will be eligible toearn bonuses of up to $8,000. It means wewill restore local control so local schoolboards and administrators have theauthority to manage their school district,

where that wasnt the case in the past. Itbrings all of our education system into the21st century.

So, its business as usual, plowingahead as outlined by the laws passed in2011.

Ed laws

face anuphillbattle

About the pollIMason-Dixon

Polling & Researchof Washington,D.C., conducted

the poll Mondaythrough Wednes-day, interviewing625 voters whosaid they were like-ly to vote in the

Nov. 6 election.

I Those inter-viewed wereselected from aphone-matchedIdaho voter regis-tration list thatincluded land linesand cellphones.

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The marginfor error is no morethan plus or minus4 percentagepoints. This meansthat there is a 95percent probabilitythat the true fig-ure would fall with-in that range if theentire populationwere sampled.

I Support for the propositions is higheramong Republicans than Democrats

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ITom Luna gives his case for keeping the laws and Mike Lanza gives his reasons for repeals.

I Both Luna and Lanza think there will bea big turnout during the Nov. 6 election

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Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna is touring the state in advance of Election Day to explain theStudents Come First laws and make his case as to why voters should retain the reform package.

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Since his landslide re-election,Gov. C.L. Butch Otter is spend-ing significantly less time in theoffice.

Otter, 69, typi-cally doesnt cometo the office onMondays, insteadscheduling gener-al office timewith no appoint-ments. He worksfrom home,according to a for-mer chief of staff.

Comparing 12-month periodsfrom Otters third year in office tohis fifth year, an Idaho Statesmananalysis shows:I 27 percent fewer appoint-

ments, both official and unoffi-cial.I 29 percent fewer hours

scheduled for those appoint-ments.I 33 percent less time spent

traveling for official and unoffi-cial purposes, both in Idaho andelsewhere.I 28 percent increase in per-

sonal and vacation days, with 41days off during the business weekin the past 12 months.

The analysis is based on threeyears of scheduling records, fromNov. 1, 2008, to Oct. 31, 2011, ob-tained under Idahos publicrecords law.

The Statesman provided thegovernor with its analysis of hisrecords, but he declined repeatedrequests for comment, beginningin mid-November. Otters spokes-man, Jon Hanian, also would notcomment on Otters workload butdid not dispute the findings.

Planning a third termOtter surprised a crowd in

Coeur dAlene on Dec. 14 with anexceptionally early announce-ment: Hell run again in 2014.

It surprised me, it surprised alot of people, said his two-timecampaign manager, Debbie Field.

Otter made the statement at acampaign fundraiser. In the lastfinance reporting period, Otterscampaign owed him $206,000 forloans he made to support his 2010re-election.

Field scoffed at speculationthat Otter would be re-elected athird time and then resign tohand the job to a man he appoint-ed, Lt. Gov. Brad Little.

You do not as a candidatework this hard and then turn itover to someone else, Field said.

I will tell you he feels reallygreat.Little said he and Otter never

have discussed Otter resigning:No. None. Zero. Not even close.

Public awareness of Ottersschedule has risen in recentweeks with news that he sentLittle on a trade mission to Braziland Mexico last month while hevacationed at the National FinalsRodeo in Las Vegas.

Otter also spent a week inHawaii and a week in Florida inNovember, but those trips would-nt count as vacation under theStatesman analysis Otter was

I Otters schedule

shows fewer workhours, business traveland appointmentsin his second term.


BOISE With the 2012 legislative ses-sion set to kick off Monday, lawmakersare digging in for a $20 million battle

they expect will define the upcoming session.During the weeks ahead, legislators will

consider whether to launch a key componentof the federal health care package champi-oned by President Barack Obama.

In late 2011, Idaho receiveda $20.3 million federal grant tocreate a state health insuranceexchange. The exchange, partof the federal health care plan,essentially is a website thatbusiness owners and familiescan visit to compare health in-surance plans, coverage andprices.

It sounds innocent enough.The $20.3 million is there tohelp Idaho officials create theexchange. The program is mar-keted as a way to reduce healthcare costs and give peoplemore control over their bene-

fits and expenses.Using the exchange also isoptional. Families that alreadyhave health insurance couldkeep their existing coverage.

Additionally, anyone could choose to buy cov-erage from a local insurance agent.

So, why the controversy?In 2010, Idaho lawmakers joined their

counterparts in more than a dozen states insuing the federal government over the heathcare plan, arguing that aspects of the packageare unconstitutional.

Members of the Republican supermajorityin the Idaho Legislature dont often smile onfederal mandates especially the health carepackage.

The real debate on the health insuranceexchange is going to be in the House, IdahoFalls Rep. Erik Simpson said. We have a verydiverse group of Republicans in the House

and a growing, powerful conservative move-ment.

The far-right movement within the House,which includes Simpson, is expected to offerthe most resistance to creating a stateexchange.

If lawmakers dont create the exchange,they would be refusing the $20.3 million andwould be forced to accept whatever exchangesystem the federal government creates forstates that choose not to comply with the law.

An executive with the states top businesslobbying organization warned that failure touse the $20.3 million and create a stateexchange could cost the state jobs and hurtsmall businesses.

Idaho Association of Commerce andIndustry President Alex LaBeau has urgedlawmakers to set aside concerns aboutObamas health care package and get to work.

A federal exchange, over which Idaho hasno control, gives employers less certainty inthe marketplace, LaBeau said Thursday. Weemployers do not like uncertainty. We dontlike to question how much our employees are

going to cost us.Gov. C.L. Butch Otter said if the state

accepts a federal exchange, then Idaho-basedinsurance carriers could be left out of the pro-gram, jeopardizing job security for thousandsof local agents.

Otter also warned last week that failure tocreate the state exchange could cost Idaho$300 million in federal matching Medicaidfunds a hit that could be handed down inthe form of a penalty from the feds.

We would either have to raise taxes,which I see no appetite for that, or we wouldhave to cut (spending) from someplace else,Otter said.

Idaho Falls Republican Rep. LindenBateman said hes inclined to support a state-based exchange, though he does not approveof the federal health care package. Batemansaid he also could be persuaded to voteagainst a state exchange.

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected toconsider lawsuits filed by Idaho and otherstates in March.

Im going to keep an open mind, becausethis is really important, Bateman said. Ifthere is any indication our actions wouldweaken our case before the Supreme Court, Iwill oppose it.

DOLLARS AND CENTS

While insurance may prove to be the issueof the season, the state budget is a perennialtop priority. During the pastthree years, legislatorsshunned attempts to raise newrevenue in a slumping econo-my and passed along deep cutsto nearly every state program,including public schools andtherapies for the mentally ill.

Rexburg Republican Sen.Brent Hill said he doesnt thinknew spending cuts are in order.

The economy is improving, albeit very,very slowly, Hill said. I hope and think wellsee the end of additional cuts and, hopefully,

I Lawmakers will kick off the 2012 session Monday in Boise.

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It was a challenging, and, attimes, violent year in IdahoFalls and across eastern

Idaho.A quadruple murder and sui-

cide in Ammon, the execution ofan eastern Idaho serial killer andpolice-involved shootings inIdaho Falls top the PostRegisters list of 2011s mostcompelling stories.

Although the violence thatplayed out on city streets andusually quiet neighborhoods was

unprecedented, there were somebright spots as well.Here is the Post Registers

Top 10 Stories of 2011, as votedby the newspapers staff.

MURDERS/SUICIDEIN AMMON

While residents of a nor-mally peaceful Ammonsubdivision slept duringthe early morning hours of

May 13, Gaylin Leirmoe went tothe home where his ex-girlfriend,Michelle Kern, 22, was living withher parents, Michael and RobertaKern.

The 26-year-old Leirmoe shotKern and their sons, Jack Leir-moe, 3, and Gage Leirmoe, 9months, as well as Kerns sister,Malinda Kern, 19, before setting afire in the home and shootinghimself.

Michelles parents were inUtah at the time, where MichaelKern was undergoing surgery.

Its just devastating, saidDenise Kidman, a former co-worker of Roberta Kern. Bobby(Roberta) lost her family in onenight.

Later, police investigatorslearned that text messages fromMichelles and Gaylins phonesshowed the relationship had de-

teriorated. Gaylin made accusa-tions against Michelle, while shetried to cut off contact with him.

I dont know that it was reallythreatening. It was just that therewas a lot of name-calling,Michael Kern said at the time. Hewas harassing her. At one point hesaid hed hired a private detectivehat was following her around.

On May 10, the day Michelleraduated from Eastern Idahoechnical College, she picked uper mother to go to lunch.ichelle told her mother that

Gaylin was suicidal.Three days later, the unthink-

ble happened.

The stunned community ral-ied around the Kerns as theystruggled to rebuild their lives,

olding several successful fund-aisers for the family.

PAUL EZRA RHOADESEXECUTED

After 24 years on deathrow, serial killer Paul EzraRhoades was executed

Nov. 18.

Rhoades execution was thefirst in Idaho since

1994. He was con-victed of the 1987kidnappings andmurders of SusanMichelbacher andStacy Baldwin.Rhoades also wasconvicted of sec-ond-degree mur-der in the slayingof Nolan Haddon.

In a statement minutes before

he was executed, Rhoades ack-nowledged that he played a rolein the Michelbacher murder but

did not take responsibility forkilling Baldwin and Haddon.

His last statement contradict-ed an Oct. 21 written requestfor a clemency hearing. In theearlier statement, Rhoades tookresponsibility for all three mur-ders expressing guilt andremorse.

The lethal injection assuredRhoades the last word.

The devil has gone home,

said an execution witness whorepresented one of Rhoades vic-tims.

OFFICER-INVOLVED

SHOOTINGS

Since Dec. 30, 2010, IdahoFalls police officers havebeen involved in threeshootings.

While one of the shootingshappened as 2010 drew to a close,the investigation played out inearly 2011.

In the 2010 incident, NicholasB. Barker was shot and killedafter he pointed a pistol at police

officers. Police went to the RoyalAvenue home where Barker wasstaying after receiving a reportthat a man was armed and possi-bly suicidal.

Douglas Walters died in Juneafter he shot an Idaho Falls policeofficer who had entered his

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The Fourth of July parade crowd is reflected in the tuba ofIdaho Falls band member Tyler Hutten.

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Sgt. Orin T.J. Harman of Pocatello is surrounded by his children, Taylor, Shaylene, Nicole and Casey (not pictured). Harmanhad lots of family and friends greet him at Aero Mark as members of the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team arrived home.

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PORTLAND,Maine MittRomney narrowlywon MainesRepublican cau-cuses, state partyofficials announ-ced Saturday, pro-viding his cam-paign with amuch-neededboost after three straight lossesearlier this week. But the former

Massachusetts governor won justa plurality of the Maine vote, sug-gesting he still has work to do tounite GOP voters behind his can-didacy.

State Republican ChairmanCharlie Webster announcedRomney had won with 2,190votes, or 39 percent, compared to1,996 about 36 percent forRon Paul, the only other candi-date to aggressively compete inthe state. Rick Santorum received989 votes and Newt Gingrich won349, but neither actively cam-

paigned there. Other candidatesdrew 61 votes.

The totals reflected about 84percent of the states precincts.Webster insisted that any caucusresults that come in afterSaturday wouldnt be counted nomatter how close the vote.

Some caucuses decided not toparticipate in this poll and willcaucus after this announcement,Webster said. Their results willnot be factored in. The absentvotes will not be factored into thisannouncement after the fact.

Romneys win, combined withhis victory in the presidentialstraw poll at the Conservative Po-litical Action Committee confer-ence in Washington hours earlier,helped slow an embarrassing skidthat began Tuesday when he lostcontests in Missouri, Minnesotaand Colorado to Santorum. Thetwin triumphs dampened the per-ception for now that conser-vatives were unwilling to supportRomney.

Romneys campaign hasdemonstrated skill and flexibility

in winning a big state like Floridaand eking out a victory in a low-turnout contest like Maine, whereorganization and voter contactare essential.

But questions about Romneysdurability as the partys pre-sumed front-runner persist. Fully61 percent of Maine voters select-ed another candidate than Rom-ney in a state practically in hisback yard. And Romneys show-ing was down considerably from2008, when he won 51 percent ofthe vote.

I The candidate also had a victory in the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Committee on Saturday.

EDITORS NOTE: This is the lastarticle in a three-part series looking atthe influence of lobbyists on the IdahoLegislature.


BOISE Last year, a Virginia companythat makes Americas best-selling cigarette

brand spent more money lobbyingIdaho lawmakers and officials than

any other group.A Post Register review of more than

2,500 pages of disclosure forms available throughthe Secretary of States Office found that the Altria Groupspent $165,076 lobbying in 2011.

The Altria Group is the parent company of PhillipMorris, which manufactures Marlboro cigarettes.Altria was the only organization to spend more than

$100,000 on lobbying expenses, spending 82 percent more thanthe next biggest spender, the Idaho Education Association, whichcoughed up $90,366.

Altria spent $3,814 on food and entertainment for state officialsand lawmakers during the year.

Specifically, Altria provided $2,500 for Republican Reps. JoAnWood (Rigby), Lawerence Denney (Midvale) and Ken Roberts(Donnelly) to attend Gov. C.L. Butch Otters inauguration festiv-ities.

Altria also spent $265 on Ketchum hotel rooms for Sen. LeeHeider, R-Twin Falls, and Rep. Jim Guthrie, R-McCammon, in September.

The rest of Altrias money, $161,262, was classified as other expenses and services.Those who follow Idaho politics remember that Blackfoot Republican Rep. Dennis

Lake pledged to carry a bill in 2011 that would increase the states cigarette tax. But thesession adjourned without any official consideration of the issue.

Lake said the bill never materialized because he couldnt secure the votes to get it outof his own committee, which is crowded with fellow Republicans.

Wood and Roberts sit on Lakes House Revenue and Tax Committee, while Denney servesas speaker of the House.

Idaho, meanwhile, has the lowest cigarette tax in the region, according to the Campaign forTobacco-Free Kids. At 57 cents per pack, Idahos tobacco tax is lower than 41 other states.

So, did Altrias lobbying hinder Lakes efforts?Obviously it does, Lake said. Were still struggling trying to find the votes to get the bill

out of committee. I think the (legislative) body is being lobbied heavily.I I I

All told, 19 lobbyists spent more than $10,000 on behalf of their clients last year(see detailed table on Page A4).

Notable expenses included dinners for lawmakers at Boises Chandlers

Steakhouse (which offers a $62 porterhouse steak for two on its menu), anight out at the 122-year-old members-only Arid Club and catered recep-tions at hotel ballrooms.

The Coeur dAlene Tribe, for example, spent $23,000 afterinviting all lawmakers to a reception at Boises Grove Hotel inFebruary 2011.

The Idaho Bankers Association spent about $4,500 for 70 officialsto attend a January 2011 reception at the Grove.

And the Idaho Cable Telecommunications Associationspent about $2,200 on 27 lawmakers and guests atanother shindig at the Grove.

Melaleuca, the Idaho Falls-based

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Lobbying 101Idaho has about 500 registered lobbyists, who pay a $10 annual fee and must don

a green name badge identifying them as they walk the halls of the Capitol.A lobbyist generally is defined as anyone paid to influence policy decisions.

Lisa Mason, an election clerk and lobbyist specialist at the Idaho Secretary of States Office, saidlobbyists must disclose everything they spend in a year. If a lobbyist spends more than $100 on anyindividual lawmaker or public official, that expense must be detailed in an itemized expense reportavailable for public

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