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A Failing Mill Town Needed 15 Months and $60 Million to Become One of the West's Most Desirable Destinations. One Newspaper Publisher Decided to Bet on Both Numbers Himself.
September 9, 2026
Coeur d'Alene sat on one of the richest silver deposits in world history and still nearly went under when the mines and timber mills declined. One specific person's specific bet…
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A Cattle-Ranch Kid Turned Robotics Engineer Got Quoted a Price for 3D-Printed Parts He Thought Was Absurd. Instead of Paying It, He Built the World's Largest 3D-Printer Farm to Prove the Price Was Wrong.
September 9, 2026
This outlet has covered Slant3D's shipping economics and its place inside the Boise chip-reshoring story. It has never told the actual founder's story -- one person's specific,…
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This Site's Servers Sit in Oregon. Its Founders Work From Virginia. It Costs Nothing Extra. A Boise 3D-Printing Company Needs a Second Factory East of the Mississippi Just to Ship on Time.
September 7, 2026
Where a software company sits relative to its customers is a pure identity choice -- nothing in the economics forces it to be anywhere in particular. A physical-goods company…
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A 3D-Printing Startup in Boise Is Building a Second Factory in Louisville. The Reason Is Four Hours of Flight Time, Not Growth.
September 4, 2026
Slant3D's new Louisville facility isn't about a bigger market -- it's about UPS's Worldport air hub putting 95% of the country within a half-day's flight. That single fact draws…
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The US Makes 12% of the World's Semiconductors, Down From 37% in 1990. Micron — Born in a Boise Basement — Just Broke Ground on the Fab Meant to Help Fix That.
August 22, 2026
US semiconductor manufacturing has fallen from 37% of world supply in 1990 to about 12% today. Micron, founded in 1978 in the basement of a Boise dental office, is now the only…
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