Brent Regan named to Idaho Freedom Foundation board

Brent Regan, Coeur d'Alene, has been named to the board of directors for the Idaho Freedom Foundation. Regan joins Boise-area residents Heather Lauer, Bob Rathbone and Dan Symms on the board.

Regan is the founder and president of Regan Designs, specializing in designing electromechanical products for medical, aerospace, defense, marine and automotive industries. He holds 11 U.S. patents for medical devices.

"The Idaho Freedom Foundation provides essential services to Idaho citizens by advocating for free market solutions, individual responsibility, private property rights and transparent, limited government," Regan said.

An advocate of the free market, Regan has testified in favor of free market health care. He also initiated the North Idaho Conservative Resolution against the federally mandated health insurance exchanges.

Regan has lived in Idaho since 1999 and is a trustee for the Coeur d'Alene School District. He is married with three children.

The Idaho Freedom Foundation is a nonpartisan educational research institute and government watchdog dedicated to improving the lives of Idahoans.

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Intermountain Community Bancorp names chairman

Intermountain Community Bancorp and its banking division, Panhandle State Bank, announce the election of Ford Elsaesser to the position of chairman of the Board of Directors effective immediately following the 2013 annual shareholders meeting on April 24.

Elsaesser succeeds Jack Parker, who has served as the institution's Chairman since 1995. Parker will continue to hold a director's seat on the board.

Elsaesser has been an IMCB director since 1992.

"The need for community banks is clear and growing," Elsaesser said.

Elsaesser has enjoyed a long and prestigious career in the law, currently serving as senior partner in the Sandpoint firm of Elsaesser Jarzabek Anderson Elliott & Macdonald, Chtd.

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Wells Fargo offers free credit scores, credit reports

Wells Fargo is once again providing access to free credit scores and complimentary credit reports to its consumer customers from March 1 to April 15.

And, to help encourage consumers to set financial objectives, the company will also launch Share Your Goals, an online, social media sweepstakes that will put $10,000 in the hands of one grand prize winner.

An additional 12 sweepstakes participants will each win a $500 Wells Fargo Visa gift card - for a total of $16,000 in cash and gift cards to 13 randomly selected consumers simply for sharing their financial aspirations.

More than 280,000 customers took advantage of Wells Fargo's first coast-to-coast free credit score promotion, held in October 2012. Most adults have reviewed neither their credit score (55 percent) nor their credit report (62 percent) in the past year, according to the National Foundation for Credit Counseling. Wells Fargo hopes to help change those statistics because a consumer's credit situation plays an important role in reaching their financial goals.

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