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The numbers in the new arms control agreement between the U.S. and Russia are interesting to compare to those in Robert S. McNamara's obituary : "Negotiators are to be instructed to craft a treaty that would cut strategic warheads for each side to between 1,500 and 1,675, down from the limit of 2,200 slated to take effect in 2012 under the Treaty of Moscow signed by President George W. B...
Fort Boise - 11:23 a.m.
Instead of making fun of his amazing lack of intelligence, or his abysmal logic, I'm going to try to help Little Adam: I was actually at the God and Country Festival in Nampa among the record 12,000 person crowd when I heard that the Pentagon had denied the request for the God and Country Festival to have a military flyover because of the nature of the event and the inclusion of God in the fes...
43rd State Blues - 8:46 a.m. - 2 clicks 
With just 17 weeks until the Boise City Council election, there is an overwhelming amount of disinterest in the campaign. T.J. Thomson tells the GUARDIAN he will be an “independent voice” on the council, but with endorsements from Team Dave and most of the Council, we see this Obama organizer as “more of the same.” [...] Related posts: ELECTION! What Election? Who Car...
Boise Guardian - Sun 5:04 p.m.
David A. Honey tells the GUARDIAN he is running for Boise city council and provided us a link to his website. He doesn’t say which seat he is going after. Jim Tibbs is not running again and both Maryanne Jordan and Vern Bisterfeldt are up for reelection. His organization [...] Related posts: Minority Vote Could Win Council Race Council Race Off to Slow Start New Guy Shoo-In For Bo...
Boise Guardian - Sun 2:22 p.m. - 2 clicks
Regular readers of my blog will remember my trip across the country 11 months ago. I drove from Maryland to Seattle over a period of 10 days or so, with about 60 hours of drive time. It was long, tiresome, but amazing! The definite highlight of the trip was seeing some of my besties (Diana and Chris) in Yellowstone. They are devoted friends who drove from Pocatello to Yellowstone to spend a few da...
A Seattleite in Idaho - Sat 12:58 a.m.
Often is - more often than people typically think - that bankruptcies and other reorganizations aren’t fatal problems for businesses. A good many have come out of them whole and prosperous. But this from the Idaho Statesman, concerning the Tamarack ski resort near Donnelly, gave us pause: An Idaho judge on Thursday refused to let Bank of [...]...
Ridenbaugh Press (Idaho) - Fri 9:41 p.m.
I've seen stuff on Flikr from time to time (and even set up an account once upon a time? Not sure), but hadn't seen a presentation that was as simple and featuring big, beautiful photos such as this one: Happy 4th of July from the Idaho Democratic Party, pictures from Julie Fanselow's recent vacation to New York City, Washington and Philadelphia. I was happily reminded of our own trip to ...
Fort Boise - Thu 7:21 p.m.
Going back a few years, remembering the fall of 1983 - October specifically - in Idaho. I was in Pocatello then, and the city seemed almost to be gasping for air . . . which is to say, business and jobs. A chunk of the downtown shuttered; a big factory in operation since World War [...]...
Ridenbaugh Press (Idaho) - Thu 7:04 p.m. - 3 clicks
Fueled by $180 million in federal stimulus money, the National Security Agency will build a one-million square foot data center outside of Salt Lake City. According to the Salt Lake Tribune: Hoping to protect its top-secret operations by decentralizing its massive computer hubs, the National Security Agency will build a 1-million-square-foot data center at Utah's Camp Williams. The years-in-the-...
New West Boise - Thu 6:25 p.m. - 9 clicks
Treasure Valley Community TV runs ‘Free Speech TV’ after 10:00 p.m. on Channel 11 – if you get cable. I don’t think it runs on broadcast TV. (As for Direct TV or other satellite, it depends on the package you’ve chosen.) It’s also on in the early mornings as in before 7:00 a.m. Democracy Now! runs [...] ...
Left Side of the Moon - Thu 4:57 p.m. - 3 clicks
Rachael Daigle of the Boise Weekly picked up on the Newsweek story about "Idaho slumlord" who had varying degrees of dishonest degrading things to say about Pocatello . Go check out her piece at BW and please read the response of local newsman Jimmy Hancock (following the intro by Jenny Hopkins) who takes Newsweek to task for not doing more research for their original piece . ...
Political Game - Wed 11:48 a.m. - 3 clicks
According to the Spokesman Reviews Huckleberries Online, Rep. Bob Nonini is throwing his hat in to the ring for the GOP primary in the 1st Congressional District. http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/hbo/2009/jul/01/nonini-run-co HBO links to this site for Rep. Nonini's Congressional bid: http://nonini2010.blogspot.com/ P.S. sorry about the lack of a hot link, it's been so long since I p...
43rd State Blues - Wed 10:26 a.m. - 5 clicks
NO TROLLEY and UNLIMITED TRASH, UNHAPPY TRASH TALK, CIRCUS WITHOUT ELEPHANTS, 6/19/09 Don Day 1504 S. Arcadia Boise, ID 83705 344-0894 Curb It & Streetcars: Just a couple of comments; I’m really disappointed in you. I know this is a little late, but on your new trash program. This is something that the city dealt with about 20 or 25 years ago and [...] Related posts: Mayor Hotline May 24 ...
Boise Guardian - Tue 3:19 p.m. - 2 clicks
The folks at Lincoln Road and Middleton Road were visibly grateful to a Canyon County Highway District Driver who saved their home from advancing flames Monday afternoon. It appeared that a weed burning project got out of control, igniting a hedge of 20 feet tall arbor vitae running along the wall of the frame home. [...] Related posts: Avimor Highway Access Problems? GUARDIAN Stops Lien O...
Boise Guardian - Mon 4:21 p.m. - 3 clicks
How much of all that public school money is actually making it to the classroom? That’s a question that ought to be asked a lot more. There’s some useful information toward answering it in a new post by Wayne Hoffman of the Idaho Freedom Foundation: “Records from the State Department of Education indicate while Idaho’s student population [...]...
Ridenbaugh Press (Idaho) - Jun 29 - 4 clicks
It has been a hell of a week at casa Rowe. That's two weeks in a row that have left me, at times, completely upside down. Perhaps it's just June and once July rolls in everything will turn around. I can always hope... Yesterday happened to be the day the Idaho State Journal mass distributed the paper. Which explains why, one, it was thick on a Friday, and two, when I was up at 4 a.m. Frida...
Political Game - Jun 29 - 4 clicks
Thanks to the wisdom of Boise citizens dedicated to fiscal responsibility, a new library is set to open Tuesday at Ustick and Cole for under $5 million. It joins recently opened store front facilities at Hillcrest and Collister shopping centers. Boise Councilors along with Team Dave wanted to spend $38 million for grandiose library [...] Related posts: Voters Say “NO” to Library ...
Boise Guardian - Jun 29 - 2 clicks
Jason Aldean and Bryan Adams from CMT Crossroads performing the Bryan Adams hit, "Heaven." ...
Political Game - Jun 26 - 3 clicks
Idaho’s Greg Smith Associates polling is also actively pulling up numbers for leading political figures and - considering how static and one-sided things often are in Idaho - some of them ought to be of broader interest. The strongest numbers among the major figures belong to 2nd District Representative Mike Simpson - his favorable/unfavorable is a [...]...
Ridenbaugh Press (Idaho) - Jun 25 - 3 clicks
The Boise Depot became a motion picture set Wednesday when as many as 200 cyclists showed up as extras for a a public service announcement (PSA) produced by Cable One. The big name of course was local Olympian Kristin Armstrong. Along with a cast including a politico, paramedic, fireman, construction worker, and others, she made [...] Related posts: Bikers Need Enforcement Too Boise Bicycl...
Boise Guardian - Jun 24 - 3 clicks
"I am so very weary, yea, so worn out, With tales of those who visit foreign lands." -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "The Traveled Man" Watching the beginning of the Sanford news conference, I couldn't help but think something was missing. What? Well, Lori Otter , for one. When the no longer missing Governor Sanford stood before the mics and had absolutely no direction in his discussion of his ...
Political Game - Jun 24 - 2 clicks
ORDER IT HERE and now on Amazon.com The Snake River Basin Adjudication is one of the largest water adjudications the United States has ever seen, and it may be the most successful. Here is how it happened, drawn from the pages of the SRBA Digest, which for 16 years has been tracking the details of the [...]...
Ridenbaugh Press (Idaho) - Jun 23 - 2 clicks
It's bad enough when people like Bryan Fischer, soon to be formerly of the Idaho Values Alliance, spout phrases like "aberrant sexual behavior" and "dangerous, unhealthy and immoral" when writing......
The MountainGoat Report - Jun 22 - 3 clicks
The Standard Journal has an interesting read on the dissolution of campus political organizations at Brigham Young University-Idaho in Rexburg. A snip: [L]ast semester (Winter 2009), the BYU-Idaho administration announced......
The MountainGoat Report - Jun 22 - 3 clicks
To say Bob Tencate likes attention is an understatement. When he hits the street it is impossible to NOT notice him and that’s the way he wants it. He really stands out in a crowd. Tencate is among a growing community of “transportation cyclists” in Boise who have forsaken automobiles in favor of bikes [...] Related posts: Boise Stimulus Projects Identified Cops Babysit ...
Boise Guardian - Jun 22 - 3 clicks
What a week for Democrats!! The Obama rally Saturday was inspiring and then being able to drive back to Gooding for the Democrat Caucus last Tuesday was frosting on the cake. It was great visiting with everyone and listening to politics served up grassroots-style. Gooding County about doubled their last caucus numbers. Also heard great reports from the rest of the District 25 caucuses. Bad news a...
We Have Failed Our Duty As Americans - Jun 22 - 4 clicks
The Idaho Statesman had an interesting oped earlier last week about a piece of environmental legislation written by easterners that has a big impact on Idaho: As Westerners, we can fuss and foam and fret about an out-of-the-region vision of......
Western Democrat (Idaho) - Jun 22 - 2 clicks
Larry LaRocco is running for Senate in Idaho, taking on the incumbent Senator Larry Craig, who seems to suffer from the same foot-in-mouth disease as former Montana Senator Conrad Burns. You may recall that Senator Craig recommended abandoning flooded sections......
Western Democrat (Idaho) - Jun 22 - 3 clicks
Seven of the thirteen Western states have Senators up for election this year: Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, New Mexico, and Wyoming. The Republicans are defending six of these seven Senate seats. Montana’s Max Baucus is the sole defending Democratic......
Western Democrat (Idaho) - Jun 22 - 4 clicks
The week began with the news of Senator Stennett’s impending surgery. I am thankful that he was up and moving around quickly and was released Thursday. He will be in all our prayers as he continues his treatments in pursuit of recovery. The Senate Education committee was scheduled to take up the iStars and We Teach Bills last Wednesday, but action was postponed. It appears neither of these co...
We Have Failed Our Duty As Americans - Jun 22 - 3 clicks
With the release of the police tape yesterday, Idaho Senator Larry Craig continues to lose support from the GOP. Senator John Ensign (R-NV) is the latest to call for Craig's resignation. Sen. John Ensign told MSNBC today that it would......
Western Democrat (Idaho) - Jun 22 - 2 clicks
According to the Idaho Statesman: A Washington, D.C., newspaper reported on its Web site today that Idaho Sen. Larry Craig was arrested in June for lewd conduct in the restroom of a Minnesota airport. Roll Call reported that Craig was......
Western Democrat (Idaho) - Jun 22
As I mentioned in a previous post , one individual made a lot of statements that my group was unable to correct during the discussion part of the Gooding County Caucus. I would like to address them ... Statement #2: Obama purchased a very expensive house for a very low price from a crook/slumlord blah blah blah... Mr. Clinton-supporter, again you've tried to sound like you knew what you ...
We Have Failed Our Duty As Americans - Jun 22
As I mentioned in a previous post , one individual made a lot of statements that my group was unable to correct during the discussion part of the Gooding County Caucus. I would like to address them... Statement #1: Obama was missing during many Congressional votes. Mr. Clinton-supporter, may I please point out to you that according to The Washington Post Vote Database (as published in Ne...
We Have Failed Our Duty As Americans - Jun 22 - 4 clicks
I know, I'm a couple of days late and a dollar or two short, but I was out of town with no internet access (despite the hotel advertising it). As you probably know by now, embattled Idaho Senator Larry Craig......
Western Democrat (Idaho) - Jun 22 - 2 clicks
Senator Larry Craig says he is staying put, despite a court ruling against him in Minnesota. Check out the Democratic alternative, Larry LaRocco at this link. Larry LaRocco is definitely Western Democrat. In fact, General Wesley Clark said exactly that:......
Western Democrat (Idaho) - Jun 22 - 2 clicks
Idaho Congressman Bill Sali (R-Intolerant) strikes again, showing just how ignorant he really is, taking issue with cultures that are not his own. Not that this is the first time or anything. In an interview posted online this week by......
Western Democrat (Idaho) - Jun 22
Amid the revelations that Idaho Senator Larry Craig was arrested for lewd conduct in a Minneapolis airport men's room and subsequently pled guilty to disorderly conduct, support for the Senator to continue in his current role is eroding. Today, Senators......
Western Democrat (Idaho) - Jun 22 - 2 clicks
What a hectic week. Friday was the last day to get bills submitted to afternoon committees. Combine that with the County Winter Conference which featured a speech from Speaker Newt Gingrich, a trip home to vote in the caucus, a presentation to the credit union association, a luncheon with the FFA students and a phone that was drowned by a leaky water bottle and now I’m hoping the roads are open ...
We Have Failed Our Duty As Americans - Jun 22 - 2 clicks
I am writing to update you on the situation that is surrounding the issue of food tax credits that is again before the legislature this session. Today proved to be an interesting meeting of the House Revenue and Taxation committee as the controversial issue of food tax credit was brought to the table. The bill under consideration today was that of HB 0439 . This bill proposes an addition to ex...
We Have Failed Our Duty As Americans - Jun 22 - 3 clicks
Larry Craig has always known what really is causing America's economic woes... The war in Iraq? Nope. The lack of jobs which pay a living wage? Nope. Increased cost of health care and related bankrupticies? Nope. Credit companies sucking the blood out of struggling Americans? Nope. Corporate CEOs who rape the retirement funds of their employees? Nope. The increased cost of gas? food? utiliti...
We Have Failed Our Duty As Americans - Jun 22 - 3 clicks
Idaho Press-Tribune Sharon Strauss sstrauss@idahopress.com Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 Prominent local Democrat dies CANYON COUNTY — Just days after the largest Democratic caucus in Canyon County memory, local party activist Sharon Van Slyke died of cancer Sunday. In addition to her political work, Van Slyke has been lauded as a strong force for women and for her work to help c...
We Have Failed Our Duty As Americans - Jun 22 - 5 clicks
I realize there are a lot of pros and cons to nuclear energy... and since science was never a favorite subject of mine, I won't pretend to understand all of it. My resistance comes from my belief that nuclear power is unsafe, I don't trust the "government" to be honest with us about the long-term affects, and I don't believe we have developed a safe way to deal with waste. I will NEVER support a "...
We Have Failed Our Duty As Americans - Jun 22 - 3 clicks
The original concept for Snow Blow Hard: Xmas with a Vengeance was to combine elements of A Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Life with characters, settings, and events from Idaho politics and business, de-christianize it, give it our leftist spin, and make it as a musical. Last year's debut only included two songs but this year we've written 4 additional songs (so far) and it's a bona...
Sagebrush Variety Show - Jun 22 - 2 clicks
This episode is inspired by The Idaho Green Party, the city of Emmett police and the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) but the main inspiration was this article, Protester=Criminal? , from The Progressive. You know the oft quoted and even more often paraphrased "they came for so and so and I just chilled, then they came for so and so and I was like, it's not my problem, then they ca...
Sagebrush Variety Show - Jun 22 - 4 clicks
Bucky Buckaw, host of the Sagebrush Variety Hour's Backyard Chicken Broadcast segment, as heard on Boise Community Radio and KRFP, Radio Free Moscow will be the special guest on Mark Green's "No Depression" music show on WOOL 101.FM serving the Great Falls area of Vermont and New Hampshire tonight at 9:15 EST (that's 7:15 for all you local Mountain Timing Backyard Chicken aficianados). We'r...
Sagebrush Variety Show - Jun 22
For all the current public comment opportunities at DEQ mentioned on the program, see the list on their public comment opportunities page. 31 January: Idaho Public Utilities Commission, Case Nos. IPC-E-04-15 and IPC-E-06-32 . Idaho Power Co. is seeking approval for two pilot programs. Read carefully; their website is user-hostile. Then again, so is the entire agency. 7 February: Idaho Housin...
Sagebrush Variety Show - Jun 22 - 2 clicks
Kevin Bayhouse's satire of the science-fiction classic movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still is currently running on the Sagebrush Variety Show. In this adaptation, a flying saucer lands in a park in Boise and the usual mayhem ensues, including characters Governor Clem Stoat and Boise Mayor Abe Biter. ...
Sagebrush Variety Show - Jun 22
This Week's Essay is an unapologetic spoof on the Essay of the Week by Diane Josephy-Peavey (DJP) heard in Idaho on NPR affiliates. For many years, Idahoans have heard her romanticize and glorify ranching in the West through her radio essays, claiming that livestock herds are good for the environment and that ranchers are environmental stewards of the land. She is married to an Idaho sheep/catt...
Sagebrush Variety Show - Jun 22 - 3 clicks
It took us a couple weeks to get a hold of Roger Sherman and make arrangements for producing an audio version of his weekly bulletin on the best and worst of the Idaho legislature while they're in session from UVI's progressive perspective. Normally, Roger reads them in his distinctive wry style but to catch you up to January's events all the Sagebrush Variety Show players got together to perform...
Sagebrush Variety Show - Jun 22 - 4 clicks
This weeks Level Red is inspired by the Reporter Arrested for Photographing Governor's Inauguration Parade in Connecticut earlier this month. Now, consider that Boise and the Spokane/Moscow area have Criminal Investigation Units that are part of the same Local Franchise Opportunities in Homeland Security as the one that decided that Ken Krayeske's work on Green Party campaigns merited a fold...
Sagebrush Variety Show - Jun 22 - 3 clicks
Ever since the NY Times interviewed a baker, Jim Lahey, who generously revealed his recipe for idiot-proof no-knead bread, there's been an international buzz about it. News got to Idaho, and we've tested the recipe and some variations with consistent results: amazing, rustic, artisan, old-world style bread. On this week's show, we asked breadmaking first-timer Kevin Bayhouse to make a loaf...
Sagebrush Variety Show - Jun 22 - 2 clicks
Since the producers of the Sagebrush Variety Show also help put together the UV Eye Opener--bringing you the high points and low points of the Idaho legislature while it's in session--and it's all politics, we include it in the Idaho broadcasts of the show. Did that make grammatical sense? Anyway, we miss Roger Sherman's take on the madness in the statehouse, but we're happy to have gotten Jim H...
Sagebrush Variety Show - Jun 22 - 3 clicks
So in these last few shows, I've pulled out a lot of "unfinished" pieces -- things we recorded or started recording but either didn't finish or get to use. You've been exposed to some of them now: The Militant Grammarian, Male Privilege, and the forgettable Little Spuddy piece. Little Spuddy is nothing more than Idaho's anthropomorphised potato mascot, Spuddy Buddy. There was some trade mi...
Sagebrush Variety Show - Jun 22
Millionaires posing as farmers will keep their property-tax breaks for vacation lots unless the Idaho Senate cuts through the crap this week. If lawmakers fail us, more $500,000 lots at places like Tamarack Resort in Valley County and Teton Springs in Teton County will be sold to speculators and well-heeled buyers cashing in on exemptions intended for farmers. They will pay almost nothing — in m...
Purple Mountains - Jun 22 - 2 clicks
From CNN, Friday morning: Several well-placed GOP sources in Washington and Idaho have told CNN that embattled Republican Sen. Larry Craig is likely to resign soon, possibly as early as Friday. GOP source with knowledge of the situation told CNN's......
Red State Rebels - Jun 22 - 4 clicks
Local News - The Idaho Statesman - Always Idaho : New jobs, land boom change hamlet's look and lifestyle" ...
Purple Mountains - Jun 22 - 2 clicks
The most surreal week in Idaho political history is expected to reach its conclusion this morning. Embattled Sen. Larry Craig has scheduled a press conference at 10:30 at the Boise Depot. Use this as an open thread to discuss what......
Red State Rebels - Jun 22 - 3 clicks
Today was as much about Idaho history as it was about politics. Here are a few photos I took at the Boise Depot this morning. Hundreds of people were on hand for Craig's announcement. Crystal White was one of several......
Red State Rebels - Jun 22 - 3 clicks
It’s been almost four years since I started Red State Rebels. The blog has served as a focal point for Idaho’s blue blogging community for several years now, and it’s been a lot of fun to write. But the time......
Red State Rebels - Jun 22 - 3 clicks
Economy - The Idaho Statesman - Always Idaho : " Idaho job growth was sixth highest in the nation during the fourth quarter of 2004, according to the latest state profile compiled by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp." ...
Purple Mountains - Jun 22 - 3 clicks
Unless the federal government boosts local reimbursement for lost tax revenue on public lands, some western lawmakers want to give Uncle Sam's property to the affected counties. "If the government can't be a good neighbor, it has no business being in the neighborhood," U.S. Rep. C.L. "Butch" Otter, R-Idaho, said after introducing his bill this week to increase spending on the federal "Payment-in-...
Purple Mountains - Jun 22 - 2 clicks
SR.com: Democrat Brady to run for governor again : "Democrat Brady to run for governor again Ex-publisher says balance needed; he lost to Kempthorne in 2002" ...
Purple Mountains - Jun 22 - 2 clicks
