NOT THE SAME SONG AND DANCE FEAST OR FAMINE Bobcats battle Bruins Magic Valley cover bands in conference opener find identity Entertainment 1 Sports 1 FRIDAY 75 CENTS April 1, 2011 TIMES-NEWS Magicvalley.com C ITY BIDS FAREWELL TO C OURTNEY Dems, GOP square off in Slowdown Showdown’ Bedke: Giving in ALSO MOVING IN THE IDAHO to Democrats LEGISLATURE AG NUISANCE demands is not CLAIMS Farmers and an option ranchers will win new protections from nuisance By John Miller claims when Photos by DREW NASH/Times-News Associated Press writer expanding their Retiring Twin Falls City Manager Tom Courtney greets Rosalie Orton at his retirement party Thursday afternoon at the Herrett Center for Arts and operations in a Science in Twin Falls. Hundreds showed up to see Courtney off to retirement. BOISE — As the spat that’s measure headed becoming known around the to Gov. C.L. Capitol as the “Slowdown “Butch” Otter for Courtney’s Showdown” hit its second signature. Hundreds attend career in day, Democrats and Republi- Senate cans again went after each Republicans voted brief other in a style that befits 32-2 Thursday to siblings in the family cars expand Idaho’s retirement ceremony Employment backseat. “Right to Farm” with T.F.: Thursday morning’s hear- law. MAIN 2 ing in the State Affairs Com- By Nick Coltrain showed up to his farewell cere- 1977-2011 (city manager mittee was another good ex- Times-News writer mony Thursday afternoon: A DRIVER’S ED ample of tit-for-tat politics. new rod, hand-made flies and an since 1980) City population: Democratic Rep. Phylis FUNDING Nowadays, Tom Courtney expenses-paid fishing trip were King of Boise was pushing a Idaho would no gets more animated when talk- among his going-away gifts. About 22,000 resolution to promote adop- longer help cover ing about steelhead fishing than Courtney, 63, has spent more when he tion as a state policy. But the cost of driver’s he does talking about a city he than half his life so far manag- started; it’s when fellow Democrat Rep. education classes helped manage for 34 years. ing the day-to-day operations now about Elfreda Higgins of Garden at public schools, He’s not as good at catching of the city of Twin Falls. Basi- 44,000 City budget: City moved to immediately under a bill before the fish as hed like. But he looks cally its CEO, he served at the Retiring Twin Falls City Manager Tom send the measure to the the 2011 forward to the practice hell get whim of the 32 council mem- Grew from House floor for a vote, Re- Legislature. in the near future, now that he bers and 11 mayors hes worked about Courtney, center, laughs during a slide publicans refused — even Republican law- doesnt have a city to run. with. $17 million to show about his tenure at his retirement though most GOP lawmak- makers advanced It’s a well-known sentiment $48 million party Thursday afternoon at the Herrett ers support promoting alter- legislation among the hundreds who See COURTNEY, Main 3 Center for Arts and Science in Twin Falls. natives to possible abor- Thursday to strip tions. state funding from Democrats are forcing bills driver’s ed class- CENSUS 2010 : AGE on the House floor to be read es, essentially F&G names in their entirety. This delay ending a $125-per tactic is meant to pressure student subsidy. dominant GOP lawmakers MAIN 2 Where kids are in southern Idaho into holding hearings on a new director cigarette tax hike to shore up By Andrew Weeks City The release of 2010 data by the U.S. Census allows us to education and Medicaid, as well as a separate proposal to Times-News writer percentages shine light on population trends we can only guess at Acequia 27% between decades. The Times-News looked at the Albion 25% See SHOWDOWN, Main 3 Idaho wildlife has a new boss. percentage difference between people over 18 and under 18 Virgil Moore, 59, of Boise, has Bellevue 29% been named director of the Idaho Bliss 29% to find the highest -and fewest -concentrations of kids Buhl 29% Department of Fish and Game. in south central Idaho. Some of the highlights: Burley 32% ALSO MAKING NEWS The appointment was announced Carey 36% during a news conference Thurs- Castleford 26% day morning in Boise. Declo 36% County percentages “Were going to be able to hit Dietrich 41% No kids the ground run- Eden 28% ning fast and Fairfield 26% allowed? hard,” Moore said Filer 32% The towns of Sun Val- Gooding 30% Camas: Blaine: in the phone con- 24% ley and Ketchum had ference with re- Hagerman 24% 21% numbers significantly Hailey 29% porters, referring Hansen 34% beneath the state av- to his knowledge erage.Sun Valley had Hazelton 34% Gooding: Mini- about department only 12 percent of res- Heyburn 30% 30% Lincoln: 33% doka: functions. Moore Hollister 30% 29% idents under the age He replaces Cal Jerome 33% of 18,while Ketchum Groen, who has retired. Moore Ketchum 14% had 14 percent. previously was deputy director of Kimberly 32% Jerome: 31% field operations, a position hes Malta 33% Replica of historic Idaho held since 2007. Minidoka 29% Murtaugh 24% Moore comes to his new posi- Kid boom biplane going to Florida Oakley 36% Twin tion faced with challenges, but Cassia: Dietrich had the high- Paul 29% A flight-worthy replica of a biplane built to com- says he has a few goals to help Falls: 33% est concentration of Richfield 29% memorate Idahos first powered flight in 1910 has tackle them. He described the de- 27% kids under 18.More Rupert 30% been sold and is headed to Florida. It took more partment’s overall performance than 40 percent of Shoshone 29% than two years for Lewiston-area airplane en- score as an eight. Sun Valley 12% the town's residents thusiasts to build the replica of the aircraft. Twin Falls 27% are still school age. 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You’ll find the crowds between Times-News vise the BLM on various is- employees, tribal members, All nominations must be 6 and 9 p.m. at Rudy’s — A Cook’s Paradise, Hands On and Full sues. academics or the public at accompanied by letters of Moon Gallery. It’s an easy stroll between the three. The U.S. Bureau of Land The Twin Falls District large. reference from any repre- Management is looking to has two openings for ranch- Individuals may nominate sented interests or organiza- fill five open positions on its ing, energy, timber, off- themselves or others.Nomi- tions, a completed back- Twin Falls District Resource highway vehicle or com- nees must be residents of the ground information nomi- Advisory Council. mercial recreation represen- district and will be evaluated nation form, and any other Buhl to pursue levy RACs are composed of tatives; two openings for on their training, education information that speaks to citizens chosen for their ex- members of environmental, and knowledge of the coun- the nominee’s qualifica- pertise in natural resource archaeological, historical, cil’s geographical area. They tions. issues — conservationists, dispersed-recreation or wild should demonstrate a com- Nominations are due by issue election May 17 ranchers, outdoor recre- horse and burro groups; and mitment to consensus- May 2 to Heather Tiel-Nel- ationists, government offi- one opening for elected offi- building and collaborative son, 736-2352 or Times-News year. If passed, it would cials and others — and ad- cials, state natural resource decision-making. [email protected]. cost property owners with- Buhl School District will in the district $60.53 per seek voter approval of every $100,000 of taxable $571,903 in local funding property owned. during the May 17 elec- “This is the amount we House to Idaho Senate votes to limit tions. need just to continue to op- The one-year supple- erate,”Superintendent By- mental levy issue would ron Stutzman said. “Oth- fund the district’s mainte- erwise there will need to be debate agricultural nuisance claims nance and operations costs a serious butchering of this during the 2011-12 school district.” BOISE (AP) — Farmers dubbed a nuisance if they ing Sen. Nicole LeFavour of cutting and ranchers will win new weren’t nuisances when Boise expressed concern protections from nuisance they began operations — about hurting local com- claims when expanding even if they expand. munities’ abilities to man- their operations in a meas- As Idaho’s rural land- age odor,including from ex- What you didn’t driver’s ed ure headed to Gov. C.L. scape fills with encroaching panding dairies. She still “Butch”Otter for signature. suburbia, Sen. Tim Corder voted for the bill.