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A growing alternative to Towns pay


criminal trials: Mediation hospital tax,
aid St. Luke’s
The fees are a holdover from days when
the facilities in small taxing districts
were owned by the public.
BY AUDREY DUTTON with St. Luke’s to keep levy-
adutton@idahostatesman.com ing property taxes and re-
© 2015 Idaho Statesman mitting that money to St.
When voters in rural Luke’s. The combined rev-
Weiser went to the polls in enue will amount to more
November, the vast majority than $3 million a year once
gave their blessing to St. the Weiser deal closes —
Luke’s Health System’s roughly one-tenth of 1 per-
takeover of their local hospi- cent of the health system’s
tal — and agreed to continue $2.8 billion yearly revenue,
paying a special tax to sup- but money St. Luke’s says is
port that hospital. vital to keeping the
St. Luke’s expects the ac- hospitals afloat and making
quisition to take place this them better.
spring. It will be the third In all three cases, the tax-
time in five years that Boise- payers owned the hospitals
based St. Luke’s has acquired and paid St. Luke’s for years
a hospital from a taxing dis- to manage them. Under the
trict. The first was a McCall new agreements, the taxpay-
hospital in 2010. The second ers no longer are owners. In-
was a Mountain Home hos- stead, their districts have
pital in 2013. some oversight, and they
Each of those hospitals can buy back their hospitals
KATHERINE JONES / kjones@idahostatesman.com was a community medical if they want.
Defense attorney Ed Yarbrough had a client who was facing a possible life sentence in connection with a killing. Because center — a public facility Idaho law is silent on that
of mediation, the defendant could spend 15 years or even less time than that in prison. “It worked out great, so I’m a big fan supported by local property kind of transaction.
of mediation now,” Yarbrough said. taxpayers and overseen by “The law does allow the
elected boards. Each of the taxing district to transfer as-
Neutral parties show crux of arguments to prosecution, defense hospitals’ local boards ap-
proached St. Luke’s — a pri-
sets (and) make payments to
other entities. It doesn’t
vate nonprofit — to take speak specifically to the type
BY JOHN SOWELL away for life, too, if convicted of aid- cutors and defense attorneys to con- over their institutions, of relationship,” said Chris-
jsowell@idahostatesman.com ing and abetting first-degree murder. sider sitting down with a semiretired which were old and operat- tine Neuhoff, chief attorney
© 2015 Idaho Statesman The two men’s defense attorneys judge acting as a mediator, in an at- ing on slim margins.
James D. Whitewater faced life in spoke with prosecutors, making a tempt to find a resolution. The two And each made a deal See HOSPITAL TAX, A16
prison if he was convicted of first-de- case for reduced charges that would sides agreed.
gree murder in a fatal shooting last bring shorter sentences. Canyon Since the Idaho Supreme Court PAYING BIG
summer outside a Nampa County prosecutors wouldn’t budge. set rules in 2011, mediation has IN MCCALL
Walgreens. Co-defendant Joshua They were headed to trial. Expensive home equals
Wasserburger could have been sent Judges in both cases asked prose- See MEDIATION, A17 major hospital levy. A16

Zions Bank sponsors political website Do you feel that


A SAMPLE OF SOME OF THE
QUESTIONS IN THE POLL
Don’t know

The company says it wants policy and discussion. fees or gas taxes. But nearly the expansion. education policy in Idaho
Right
to raise its profile, not inject Idaho Politics Weekly, a new one-third strongly oppose high- The poll canvassed 520 is generally headed in the direction
online news provider, is con- er fees or taxes, and 85 percent adults, a fairly standard sample right direction or the Wrong
itself in Idaho policy debates ducting monthly polling as part say commercial trucks should size, and has a margin of error wrong direction?
or manipulate polling. of its offering. The site pay more in proportion to the of plus or minus 4.3 percentage
direction
launched earlier this month and wear and tear they create. points. Its sample is based on a
BY BILL DENTZER wasted no time plunging into Æ By 2-to-1, Idahoans pool of statewide registered Should it be illegal to Don’t know
bdentzer@idahostatesman.com some of Idaho’s hottest topics. support accepting federal mon- voters and accurately mirrors discriminate in housing,
© 2015 Idaho Statesman Among its initial findings: ey to expand Medicaid, with most statewide demographics. unemployment, and
Idahoans, there’s a new poll Æ Eight out of 10 Idahoans 61 percent favoring, 29 percent The site is run by a Salt Lake business based on sexual No
in town, and given the lack of want increased funding for opposed and the remainder un- City-based communications orientation and gender
routine nonpartisan polling in roads and highways and about certain. Just more than half of firm and substantially funded identity in Idaho? Yes
the state, its appearance has four of 10 support paying for it Republican respondents, and 9
real potential to shape public with higher vehicle registration out of 10 Democrats, support See POLLS, A14 Source: Dan Jones & Associates

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INSIDE TODAY “We have kids in classrooms with 25- and 30-year-old textbooks.” SEN. JIM GUTHRIE, on priorities; the state needs $100M for its aging computers A5

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