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The public affairs firm wins most awards in public relations category Feeling a little overwhelmed by the “new media?” Wondering how to be successful in cutting through the clutter to make your case? Here’s how we helped one client have a real impact on a new product launch. When the partners of Phoenix, AZ law firm Rose Law decided to launch a Boise, Idaho branch, they called upon the media expertise of Gallatin Public Affairs to help generate headlines. When Gov. Gary Locke signed the agreement to assemble the Boeing 7E7 in Everett, Boeing vice president Mike Bair confided that when the aerospace giant started the site selection process, Boeing officials didn’t think Washington had a chance. When the Montana Department of Revenue (MDOR) faced the challenge of replacing its crippled computer system, Fast Enterprises, maker of GenTax, the first off-the-shelf integrated tax processing package, contacted The Gallatin Group. Ida-West Energy, an independent power producer and affiliate of Idaho Power Company, was charged with siting and permitting a 250-megawatt, natural gas turbine energy facility in southwestern Idaho. In 2001, Pacific Seafood Group faced increasingly strict regulations governing wastewater discharges from its Warrenton, Ore., fish processing plant. The Columbia River Channel Coalition had successfully built public consensus among the political and opinion leaders of the Pacific Northwest for an economically viable and environmentally sound plan to deepen and maintain the Columbia River channel from Portland to Astoria. As the largest hospital in the region, Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., receives constant media attention on a wide variety of issues ranging from capital building projects to labor negotiations to medical crises. The Amalgamated Sugar Company, the largest sugar beet cooperative in Idaho, wanted to extend an Idaho Department of Transportation pilot project that allowed the use of 129,000-pound trucks on specific routes. |
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Cecil D. Andrus was elected Governor of Idaho four times spanning three decades and served with distinction as Secretary of the Interior. Since 1995 Cece Andrus has been ‘of counsel’ to Gallatin Public Affairs, offering our firm and clients a life-time of insights into politics, public policy and the economic and environmental challenges and opportunities in the Northwest. |
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In 2007, Gallatin joined with Phase Line Strategies and R&R Partners to form WestNet -- a strategic alliance among three of the West's most prominent public policy, communications and government relations firms. WestNet is a single public affairs solution for the West. Learn more by visiting www.westnetalliance.com. |
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 Sorrento holds groundbreaking for Nampa expansionSorrento Lactalis broke ground on a multimillion-dollar expansion of its whey drying operations in northeast Nampa Tracking the CatchThis is Pacific Seafood in Warrenton, Oregon. And here, as in many areas of the heartland, the question of food quality has taken on a much higher profile. |
