Local Lawmakers Prepare for 2017 Legislative Session
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INSIDE COVERAGE IDAHOSTATEJOURNAL.COM Former Police Pocatello investigate mayor suffers armed stroke robbery Greg Anderson listed Idaho Falls police in critical condition at seek man who held Idaho Falls hospital. up Video Mexico. Navy Blue Angels A6 A3 ISJSUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2017 to do flyover of I.F. A6 Local lawmakers prepare for 2017 legislative session plus now at $139 million, several regard to some kind of tax cut.” By SHELBIE HARRIS ideas and initiatives will compete Idaho is now in its third year [email protected] for money in the coming year. of a five-year plan in in regards to These include tax cut proposals education. On Friday, Gov. C.L. It’s unknown how changes at — which have died the past two “Butch” Otter hinted at some of the federal level and a new Trump years in the Legislature — and his priorities for the 2017 session. administration will affect state extra funding for teacher salary Though he traditionally dis- level decisions. increases — the biggest number cusses budget and policy plans in But as lawmakers assemble yet at $58 million. his State of the State speech, also in Boise for the 2017 legislative “It seems that typically, right Guthrie Packer Armstrong Manwaring on Monday, he said education session, which begins Monday, after the election that’s when will be his primary focus of the several agendas are gaining early legislative policy gets the most campaign,” said Sen. Jim Guthrie, the commitments to education new session. momentum. aggressive because there aren’t R-Inkom. “I think this year will are made whole. And I think we With an estimated revenue sur- any concerns for getting home to be concentrated on making sure will see significant efforts with More LAW | A5 Big storm to continue till at Hookah happy least Tuesday By JOURNAL STAFF The National Weather Service has issued winter storm warnings, winter weather advisories and multiple flood alerts for East Idaho regarding the ma- jor winter storm that began dumping snow on the region Saturday afternoon. The storm is not expected to exit the region until at least Tuesday afternoon and the weather service said it could linger for much longer. The weather service said the storm will make driving in much of East Idaho “very hazardous or impossible,” and motorists are being encouraged to stay off the roads. The snow is expected to come down so fast in many areas that the snow- plows will not be able to keep up with it and some roads might have to be shut down because they’re impassable, the weather service said. More STORM | A5 DOUG LINDLEY/IDAHO STATE JOURNAL A group of friends gather at TJ Nights Hookah Lounge in Pocatello. From left: Jessie James, a woman who identified herself as Chelsea, Wyatt Hill, Trent Steed and manager Dawn Norgaard. Bingham Memorial Hookah lounges light up Pocatello’s nightlife Hospital donates $5,000 By SHELBIE HARRIS to Big Momma’s House [email protected] By JOSH FRIESEN POCATELLO — A coffee shop, [email protected] dance hall and hookah lounge com- bined into one new location, the Sky POCATELLO — Jacqualine Thomas Hookah Lounge, aims to help light up was holding back tears. On Friday Pocatello’s entertainment and nightlife ONLINE scene. morning, Thomas, Owner Raad Ibrahim, who opened pastor of Praise Find a video that the new business at 440 E. Center St. Temple of God accompanies this story about a month ago, said some nights church in Po- at idahostatejournal. have been so busy they’ve had to re- catello, received a com. strict access to comply with occupancy $5,000 check from requirements. Bingham Memorial Hospital to put to- “We’ve had people from Boise, Salt ward Big Momma’s House, a faith-based Lake City and Bozeman (Montana) homeless shelter in Pocatello. come check us out, which is really But that check wasn’t the only good news Thomas heard. special for us,” Ibrahim said. “It’s been DOUG LINDLEY/IDAHO STATE JOURNAL fun to see the different types of people “We want to make sure we’re contribut- Raad Ibrahim, owner of the Sky Hookah Lounge, talks about his customers as being ing on a regular basis to Big Momma’s who come out.” like family members who he’s happy to hang out with. And just down the road on 525 E. House for the homeless,” said Mark Baker, Center St. is TJ Nights Hookah Lounge, been good. dead in Pocatello, and high school stu- director of marketing and public relations which has been in business for more “We need different options for people dents really don’t have anywhere to go. at Bingham Memorial Hospital. than 10 years. Ibrahim said the relation- to go and enjoy themselves,” Ibrahim ship between the two businesses has said. “The entertainment scene is nearly More HOOKAH | A5 More HOUSE | A5 Calendar A3 Insight C1 Classifieds E1 Today: Mix then rain. Health A8 Milestones D1 Crossword E6 High 34 | Low 33 | More weather at Sports B1 Variety D3 accuweather.com $1.75 Tired, Heavy, Swollen, or Painful Legs? Approximately 45% of MEN suffer from vein disease and may not even know it. Call today to schedule your FREE Leg & Vein Screening! David Shelley, MD | (208) 233-4938 103033 A2 | Sunday, January 8, 2017 the idaho state journal ENTERTAINMENT ODDITIES REYNOLDS, FISHER LAID TO REST PITTSBURGH AT HOLLYWOOD HILLS CEMETERY Iconic eatery LOS ANGELES (AP) — Carrie Fisher, who has been laid to rest alongside her ‘No Fish’ zone for mother Debbie Reynolds, was adored Dolphins game by family, friends and fans for her gal- An iconic Pittsburgh lows humor and frank talk about her restaurant chain won’t struggles with mental illness. serve fish leading up What better home for her ashes then, her brother Todd Fisher and daughter to Sunday’s NFL play- Billie Lourd decided, than a porcelain off game between the urn in the shape of an outsized anti- Steelers and the Miami depressant? Dolphins. “Carrie’s favorite possession was a Primanti Bros. is giant Prozac pill that she bought many famous for its sandwiches years ago,” Todd Fisher said Friday as he piled high with french left the private joint funeral at Forest fries and cole slaw on Lawn — Hollywood Hills for his mother top of whatever protein and sister. “She loved it, and it was in is being served. But the her house, and Billie and I felt it was chain won’t be serving fish on its sandwiches or where she’d want to be,” he said. AP Other than Carrie Fisher’s cremation anywhere else until after Randall County Emergency responders work an accident at Interstate 27 and Highway 2219, after a driver slid the game. and unique urn, nearly no details were off the service road, in Amarillo, Texas, Friday. revealed about the ceremony, or about The chain, which now what form the two women’s graves has 37 locations in and took. around Pittsburgh, start- The funeral came a day after the two ed out as a lunch cart in actresses were eulogized by family Snow, sleet pound East Coast, 1933. Toni Haggerty, the and close friends at a private memorial longtime cook there, says service at their neighboring homes in she just can’t bring herself Coldwater Canyon, about 10 miles west. causing hundreds of crashes to make a fish sandwich Fisher, who played Princess Leia in while the Dolphins are on four “Star Wars” films, died at age 60 on the Steelers’ menu. Dec. 27. Reynolds, star of “Singin’ in the WESTERN SNOWSTORM spread the news of the snow DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Rain” and many other classic musicals, DRAWS SKIERS; LEAVES and to lure skiers who have YORK, PA. Snow and sleet pounded a died a day later at age 84. RISKY CONDITIONS been anxiously waiting to hit large swath of the East Coast Woman drives into Todd Fisher said Friday he’ll remem- DENVER (AP) — Skiers in the the slopes. on Saturday, coating roads ber his mother and sister most for their West are flocking to the moun- But some encountered prob- river to avoid cops, with ice and causing hundreds resilience, and said both reminded him tains after a powerful storm lems, and the storm proved to boozes as car floats of crashes. Thousands of peo- of Reynold’s role in 1964’s “The Unsink- dropped a deep layer of snow be deadly. ple lost power and forecasters Police say a Pennsylva- able Molly Brown.” during a week that has proven A skier was rescued Wednes- warned of blizzard-like condi- nia woman drove into a “They were both Molly Browns of to be both joyous and deadly. day after dangling from a Colo- tions from Virginia to parts of river to avoid arrest, then sorts,” Todd Fisher said. “It’s about a very At Deer Valley in Utah, Emily rado chairlift after his backpack the Northeast. ignored officers and con- strong woman. They were very, very Summers said her boss kicked got caught. Luckily, a profes- Police investigated several sional slackliner climbed the lift tinued drinking beer as strong women.” her and her co-workers out of she floated in the vehicle. fatal crashes as potentially the office Thursday and told tower and slid across the cable storm-related, but some of the The York Daily Record INVENTORY OF PRINCE’S ESTATE them to hit the slopes and take to reach him. South’s biggest cities — Atlan- On Thursday, one of two reports police approached LISTS CASH, PROPERTY, GOLD BARS advantage of a winter that only ta, Charlotte and Raleigh — missing backcountry skiers the woman near a boat MINNEAPOLIS — An inventory of comes once a decade.