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Bryan Fischer will use any source, even students, if it promotes the hate.

Never mind the Iraq debacle or the governor’s slush fund, good bad ole Bryan Fischer is all atwitter over the latest misuse of tax dollars: transgendered bathrooms at Boise State University! Yep, right here on our hometown campus: state-funded sexual perversity! “Yes, BSU is planning to use public dollars to build restrooms reserved [...]

Idaho’s mixed housing blessing.

Mixed in what way? Idaho’s housing market is great if you managed to buy before prices got out of control. It’s not so good if you couldn’t afford to buy a home before 2005 and your income isn’t going up at, say, 20% a year. From the Statesman:
According to the Office of [...]

Thanks, CSI, for getting Idaho into the headlines again.

Thanks to Buddy Stone for pointing out this gem: the College of Southern Idaho has made it to Kieth Olbermann’s Worst Persons in the World. :

But our winners: The Sports Information Department at the College of Southern Idaho. Its media guide for its women’s softball team, presents answers to either/or questions from each of [...]

Snowpack is grim.

It just struck me that last year I was skiing April 15. It’s March 30, and I haven’t skiied in weeks. It’s not like we have a long whitewater season to look forward to, either - bad skiing makes for a quick, fast season. Some areas have less than 40% their normal [...]

Legislature to Boise: Screw you, city dwellin’ Democrats.

Wow, so public transportation unfairly benefits the more urban areas, so we should shoot that down, and this section of I-84 is in a democratic district, so that’s a no-go, too. Forward thinkers, these republicans.
From Eye on Boise:
House GOP leaders pulled one of the six highway projects – the Orchard to Isaacs Canyon project [...]

Corporate media consolidation, free speech and internet radio.

Have you heard? The organization in charge of setting royalty rates for broadcasting music online raised them so high that a great many internet radio stations will be put out of business. Guess who will be left standing? Big, corporate stations who can afford the fees. Sound familiar? Bigass corporations [...]

The naughtiness at nightclubs in Nampa

Slate.com posted Attorney General Laurence Wasden’s complaint against naughty Nampa nightclubs Satin Dolls and Club Z. Find it here.

George Clinton at the Big Easy, 2/28

Yep, he’s old - in fact, I’m certain the man took at least five naps during the course of the show. He would disappear for long periods of time while the rest of the band either funked out or snuck in some awful 50’s covers or hair metal tunes.

Conservative students go whining to Legislature over “Liberal” speakers

The poor, opressed conservatives of BSU have their tighty whities in such a bunch that there’s only one institution that can pick that wedgie: the Idaho Legislature. Thursday Bob Kustra will have to answer for BSU’s hosting of the likes of Al Gore when he speaks before the Senate Education Committee, according to an [...]

In Boise, who cares about affordable housing?

In Boise, you’ve got your advocates for the rivers, for human rights, for immigrants, for health care, against nukes. But who advocates for affordable housing and the housing needs of the poor - or even moderate-income Idahoans?
Today’s article on condo conversions in the Statesman makes this plain. Apparently, in the 12 month period [...]

Christian Parenti @ BSU on March 1

Nation correspondent and author Christian Parenti will talk about what is happening in Afghanistan and Iraq - and more importantly - why.
7 pm in the Jordan Ballroom A/B in the Student Union at BSU. Free.

Idahoan chick-memoir author to visit area

Heard of The Year of Yes?  It’s a chick-lit -memoir by Maria Dahvana Headley with a teriffic premise: a young woman, tired of the dating scene, decides to say yes to every man who asks her out for a year.  Interesting twists: 1. She’s new to NYC.  2. She’s a playwright. 3. She’s from Caldwell, [...]

Input needed on 30th Street extension

Know that area between the Connector and State Streets around 27th Street and the river?  Where the new Idaho River Sports is located, and the new whitewater park and Esther Simplot Park with will be (if the City can ever find the funding for it)?  ACHD is proposing a new road connecting Main Street and State Street.  The [...]

craig, crapo: no minimum wage required

bob geiger has a roundup of senators who voted for the Wayne Allard (R-CO) amendment to COMPLETELY ELIMINATE THE MINIMUM WAGE. it failed, but both Craig and Crapo signed it. now, i’m all for libertarian perspectives, but seriously, how can they justify billions of dollars of corporate tax subsidies, and billions of dollars [...]

otter: against wolves, for marijuana

google is great. in an article in Reason Magazine, circa 1978, butch muses:
“if a person, of his own free will, wants to use marijuana, I question whether the government has any propriety in telling him he can’t.” By limiting freedom, he said, “the government, in effect, is taking away the only real gift the [...]

Southwestern Idaho: Land of Creative Joyriders?

Remember how back in November, some kids got canned from the Idaho Ice World for taking a zamboni to the local fast-food drive-thru? Then there were the reports of a January 11 drunken joyride on a fire truck in Canyon County. The following week came the case of two dudes who hotwired six [...]

Branden Durst marches with extremists

Newly minted representative Branden Durst (D-18) was at the so-called March for Life this month.  Yet Rep Durst chose not to mention that on his website, blog or newsletter (I picked it up from a right-to-lifer’s poorly formatted blatherings).  Could it be because he recognizes that his constituency would howl if they found out?  Okay, I’ll [...]

automatons read news : bronco football, bigger ‘n jesus

Randy Stapilus, of Ridenbaugh Press, uncovers an interesting angle on the current state of Television News Anchors
“You can’t confuse reading the news with being a reporter.” -Channel 7’s General Manager, Doug Armstrong
You can read the full backstory in this Statesman report from Heath Druzin.
We have our own question about the current state of local news: [...]

“It also didn’t hurt that I married Mr. Simplot’s daughter”

Betsy Russell, of Eye on Boise, caught this admission by Gov. Butchy-Boy Otter.
“I wouldn’t have been able to get into a college any place because I didn’t have very good grades,” Otter said. “But at Boise Junior College they had to take me.” Boise Junior College is now Boise State University.
Otter said the chance to [...]

Ratio of Idahoans who are homeless is 6th in the nation.

Seems we have a bit of a homeless problem - not in terms of sheer numbers, but in terms of what proportion of our citizens are homeless.  We rank sixth in the nation, according to an article in the Statesman.