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SCR113.....................................................by STATE AFFAIRS
IDAHO FALLS POST REGISTER - Stating findings of the Legislature and
honoring the Idaho Falls Post Register on the one hundred twenty-fifth
anniversary of its founding.
02/23 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/24 Rpt prt - to 10th Ord
02/28 10th Ord - ADOPTED - voice vote
Floor Sponsor - Davis
Title apvd - to House
03/01 House intro - 1st rdg - to St Aff
03/14 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/15 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/16 3rd rdg - ADOPTED - voice vote
Floor Sponsor - Rydalch
Title apvd - to Senate
03/17 To enrol
03/18 Rpt enrol - Pres signed
03/21 Sp signed
03/22 To Secretary of State
]]]] LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ]]]]
Fifty-eighth Legislature First Regular Session - 2005
IN THE SENATE
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 113
BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
1 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
2 STATING LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND HONORING THE IDAHO FALLS POST REGISTER ON THE
3 ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS FOUNDING.
4 Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
5 WHEREAS, the Idaho Register was first published in Eagle Rock in July of
6 1880 by William Wheeler and over the years that newspaper merged with the
7 Times to become the Times-Register; and
8 WHEREAS, J. Robb Brady, son of former Idaho Governor and U.S. Senator
9 James Brady, purchased the Daily Post in Idaho Falls in 1925 and died shortly
10 thereafter and E. F. McDermott became publisher, a post he held until his
11 death in 1977; and
12 WHEREAS, in 1931 the Daily Post and the Times-Register merged, forming the
13 Post-Register, a name it has retained since, although the hyphen was con-
14 signed to obscurity in 1989; and
15 WHEREAS, the Post Register's history and longevity are rare, but rarer
16 still is the fact that the newspaper today remains privately and locally owned
17 and even more unusual is that forty-nine percent of the newspaper's stock is
18 employee owned; and
19 WHEREAS, since 1998, nearly all of the newspaper's profits have gone
20 toward buying stock in the paper on behalf of its employees; and
21 WHEREAS, the Post Register is Idaho's second largest newspaper, serving
22 ten eastern Idaho counties and reaching more than sixty thousand readers a
23 day.
24 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the First Regular Session
25 of the Fifty-eighth Idaho Legislature, the Senate and the House of Representa-
26 tives concurring therein, that we wish to recognize and commend the important
27 achievement of the Post Register's one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary of
28 its founding.
29 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Secretary of the Senate be, and she is
30 hereby authorized and directed to send a copy of this resolution to Mr. Roger
31 Plothow, the Publisher of the Post Register.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 15029
The purpose of this resolution is to pay tribute to and honor The
Post Register during it's 125th anniversary.
FISCAL NOTE
None
Contact
Name: Senator Bart M. Davis
Phone: (208) 332-1305
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE SCR 113