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It all begins again this morning at 8. The vacation is over. And I'm eager to start feeding the maw of the blog beast again. See you here in the morning. Here's your first post-vacation Wild Card ...
[...]We’ve suggested in a few posts that the 5th District Republican contest, which has been broadly assumed to be lining up for legislator and gubernatorial candidate Kevin Mannix over rerunning businessman Mike Erickson, may be turning. The weight of Erickson TV ads, mostly aimed hard at Mannix, could be having [...]
This report is a little frustration specifically because it lacks some of the most specific stuff: Statistics. Yet the case study details in it are more than compelling.
This is a just-out report called (in over-long title) “A Survey of Human Trafficking in the Spokane Region: Conducted by the [...]
Boise is awash in "surplus land" publicly owned, but unused for any public purpose. City officials offer hollow claims about selling the land to fund other projects, but they just can't "gitterdone."
The GUARDIAN--in response to a reader’s challenge--suggests a farmer's market be made available immediately [...]
Time will pack a bag on you, my love
organize, re-organize your luck
Pretty face, a pretty smile,
a pretty shame you can’t defile
The message you have made for them to see
And it will be
And it will [...]
Dan Popkey picks up on a topic I wrote about a week back. Ron Paul’s campaign is running aggressively in Idaho and his supporters are targeting local precincts:
The Texas congressman and former Libertarian presidential nominee has targeted Idaho as part of his quixotic challenge to John McCain. Paul loyalists seek [...]
From an email sent by the Idaho Democratic Party:
Press conference scheduled for MondayLast Idaho superdelegate before convention to make endorsement
BOISE, Idaho – Idaho Democratic Party officials will gather at Party Headquarters at noon Monday, where Chairman R. Keith Roark, will announce his endorsement democratic presidential nomination. read more »
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Staff Sgt. Chad Caldwell, 24, was laid to rest yesterday. He was killed by a roadside bomb April 30 on his third tour of duty in Iraq.Is there any rhyme or reason to the planning that goes into Idaho Falls Hotels?
With the exception of a few locations I haven’t been able to figure out if there is any logic that goes into where the hotel locations develop.
The area of the Shilo and the Marriott by WalMart, [...]
I thought it would be fun to start a thread about only locally owned eateries in the Idaho Falls area. We might also expand it to any locally owned business. But let’s keep it locally owned. Not locally run, but locally owned.
LOCALLY OWNED RESTAURANTS/CAFES
Franko’s on First Street
Hawg Smoke on North [...]
This weeks brings some fascinating new birds to the feeders in our yard. The first is a group of eight male Lazuli Buntings. They arrived three days ago and have been hanging around ever since.
The next that arrived yesterday is a Black-headed Grosbeak. This is [...]
We've reached the end of another one of those pesky vacations of mine, HBOers. On a very positive side, I've had my socks blessed off during my three weeks of vacation this "spring," watching my two kids reach academic goals that were beyond me when I was their age. On [...]
It was March of 2000 when I lost my Mom. She was 
95 years old. This picture was taken about a month beforehand. I miss her as much today as I did in the days and weeks immediately following. You see she was more than just my Mom. She [...]
I?ve been reading a lot about how movie critics 
all over the country are losing their jobs. No question. Same thing?s happening with books critics. And art critics. And columnists. All are going, in fact, who do only one thing and ? this is the important part ? can?t [...]
I had to stay in the car the other day to finish 
listening to this story, ?For Prospective Moms, Biology and Culture Clash,? which aired on NPR. According to the report, the average age of first-time mothers in the United States has risen steadily in the last 40 years [...]
A stealth strategy by supporters of Ron Paul to 
win delegates at the Idaho Republican Convention leaves mainstream party leaders anxious and a bit secretive themselves. The Texas congressman and former Libertarian presidential nominee has targeted Idaho as part of his quixotic challenge to John McCain. Paul loyalists seek [...]
