and last updated 2021-05-07 21:16:48-04
BOISE, Idaho â Local small business owners are grappling with the current labor shortage. It s causing them to adjust their store hours or closed on certain days during the week.
Rhi Hoisington opened Mad Mac, a macaroni and cheese restaurant, a little more than three years ago at the Boise Spectrum Center.
âI owned Mad Mac for five years and we started out with the food truck,â Hoisington said.
Like many small business owners, Hoisington is trying to move forward after facing struggles brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic but the current situation doesnât look bright.
Former NFL quarterback Jim McMahon is best known for his Super Bowl heroics with the Chicago Bears in 1985. But he also played for the Arizona Cardinals during the 1994 season, and he s lived in Scottsdale for more than a decade. He s an Arizona guy now.
McMahon is the subject of an upcoming documentary,
Mad Mac, which is scheduled for release later this year. It s a look at both his career as well as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, the brain injury that haunts many former football players. It also comes at a time when the NFL is reconsidering its policies regarding what substances players are allowed to use to manage pain. (Players can currently be fined and suspended for positive marijuana tests.) A new league committee is doing research and conducting studies into permitting players to use alternatives to opioids, including CBD and other cannabis products.