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Round 2 Of GUARDIAN “De-listed” by Boise PD

August 11, 2010 ⋅ 24 comments

What honestly started out as an olive branch extended to the Boise FD to provide some needed warning signs has evolved (degenerated) into the police spokeswoman bumping the GUARDIAN from the media e-mail list which she said was for “media only,” but after KIVI jumped on the issue the reason for not sharing news tips [...]

Hotline Summary Is Tip Of Iceberg

August 3, 2010 ⋅ 13 comments

It’s no secret the GUARDIAN is not happy with the new policy at Team Dave to summarize calls to the Mayor’s Hotline rather than provide a transcript to City Councilors and the media as it has done for years. A call reported this week diminishes the true tenor of how business is handled. Here is [...]

City “Varnishes” Mayor Hotline Public Record

July 28, 2010 ⋅ 8 comments

Mayor Dave Bieter’s “Team Dave” has decided to provide their own version of Hotline Calls made to the Mayor’s office after providing a word-for-word transcription to the media for years. We find it ironic the city spends $60,000 in public funds to “educate” voters about a political question on the November ballot, but eliminated a [...]

Will Council Ground Bieter’s PR Flight Of Fancy?

July 20, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

After seeing how the Daily Paper, Channel 6 TV, and the GUARDIAN shed the light of public scrutiny on Team Dave’s plan to seek $60,000 in taxpayer money in an effort to hire a PR firm to “educate” voters on a state constitutional amendment about airport debt, we predict it will crash and burn at [...]

Come To A GUARDIAN Party Thursday

May 23, 2010 ⋅ 7 comments

Guardian’s first five years have flew How long it would last no one knew All I have to say Is keep plugging away And Happy Birthday to you! –Poet Paul GUARDIAN PARTY INVITATION TO: ALL READERS, friends, politicos, and anyone wanting to see what Cyclops, Cynic, and Kappa Ta, Timm, Paul, Clancy, Dean Gunderson, and [...]

GUARDIAN Solves IPTV Forest Access Issue

May 20, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

Our good friends at Idaho Public TV got bullied out of making images in the Frank Church Wilderness by an overzealous Forest Ranger recently and now the Guv is involved in a little matter the GUARDIAN settled years ago. We sent the following note to Leo Kay, a friendly sounding bureaucrat who is just 8 [...]

Team Dave Can’t Spend Fast Enough

May 10, 2010 ⋅ 4 comments

The DAILY PAPER has a Cynthia Sewell piece Monday explaining that some “Green Projects” are being “scaled back.” A plant that would have produced heat and electricity from burning methane gas created by wastewater treatment, and a revolving loan fund to help homeowners make their homes more energy-efficient are coming off the city’s list of [...]

Statesman Voter Guide Hidden On-line

April 29, 2010 ⋅ One comment

The Daily paper went to a ton of effort to build a voter guide in a noble effort to allow citizens a little insight into the background of primary election candidates–then promptly hid it from readers. Despite the best efforts of their staff, it is nearly impossible to find it on-line. How about a little [...]

Two Quarters Does Not A Success Make

April 1, 2010 ⋅ 12 comments

The Daily Paper devoted the Thursday cover and much of the inside local space to an optimistic piece about Micron making a profit two quarters in a row, quoting sources who thought it spelled a better economic outlook for the area. In our mind, that shouldn’t be news–businesses are SUPPOSED to show a profit. The [...]

GUARDIAN Wins Best National Blog Sammie

March 29, 2010 ⋅ 31 comments

Hollywood has its Oscars and activists have the “Sammies,” named after Samuel Adams, one of those fabled “Founding Fathers.” Some well intentioned reader nominated the GUARDIAN for “blogger of the year” and guess what? We won! Had it not been for the efforts of the cities to abolish the constitutional right of citizens to vote [...]

Citywide Conservation Areas, Not Just Foothills

March 24, 2010 ⋅ 11 comments

There are rumblings among the Greenies about another Foothills Levy and the Daily Paper is soliciting comments from readers on the potential serial levy–a two year only tax increase. The money from the levy of 10 years ago is mostly gone. The previous levy was full of illegal and dishonest acts. Former Mayor Brent Coles [...]

Eagle Mayor Quits Amidst Controversy

March 2, 2010 ⋅ 18 comments

After the GUARDIAN provided a forum for critic Saundra McDavid’s revelation that Eagle Mayor Phil Bandy was holding two government jobs the legacy media picked up on the issue and Bandy suddenly resigned his position as mayor Monday. Eagle’s political weather is as stormy as this past winter on the Eastern Seaboard–the stuff just keeps [...]

Court Rules Against Boise City In Records Case

February 18, 2010 ⋅ 11 comments

BOISE GUARDIAN editor David R. Frazier has a right to a copy of security video showing a game of “strip hockey” at Boise City’s Ice World, despite Boise City’s denial of a public records request. Senior Judge George D. Carey issued a judgement following a Tuesday trial in Fourth District Court overturning the City’s denial. [...]

Update On Desire Named Street Car

February 15, 2010 ⋅ 19 comments

The DAILY PAPER has joined the long list of opponents to Team Dave’s “Desire Named Street Car” with a HUGE EDITORIAL in Sunday’s edition. They didn’t go soa as advocating a massive increase in the bus system, but it is clear (to us) the Statesman has come over to the GUARDIAN side. Reporter Cynthia Sewell [...]

Sweet Offer From G-BAD Boys

February 3, 2010 ⋅ 10 comments

The Center on the Grove, operated by the Greater Boise Auditorium District (G-BAD) sent a bunch of decorated cakes to newsrooms throughout the Valley today in an effort to garner good news reports about the convention center’s 20th anniversary. At least they haven’t claimed their so-called birthday party is a “public out reach” or an [...]

Broncos Win, Now Its On To Legislature

January 5, 2010 ⋅ 16 comments

Now that BSU has won another Fiesta Bowl, there won’t be much to talk about until the legislature comes back to town to figure how to keep government afloat with less money. Oh sure, we will have a few days of news about how Boise still gets no respect, but the media pundits are ready [...]

Entire Community Turns Out To Help Needy

December 22, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

At this cold and happy time of year it seems like every school, business, and news organization battles to “out nice” each other. The GUARDIAN is rarely “nice,” but we do believe in helping our fellow man and can’t help but feel “warm and fuzzy” about the community donations this year. Karen Vauk President chief [...]

Hyped Development Now Pathetic Footnote

December 18, 2009 ⋅ 20 comments

Interesting note for GROWTHOPHOBES out Eagle way. When the developers offered all the hype for a golf course community, the city fathers and mothers of Eagle jumped aboard and all crowed about pumping millions upon millions of dollars into the Treasure Valley annually. It never happened because the developers didn’t have the money–as with Avimor, [...]

Fox 12 Reporter Wins Dope Award

December 11, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

A reader has nominated Reporter Mike Vogel for a GUARDIAN ” TV Dope Reporter Award.” Vogel has been in, out, and back in the news game and probably didn’t even think about winning a GUARDIAN dope award when he touched his tongue to a metal pole at temperatures well below freezing on camera. He was [...]

Government, WAC, Bend Minds With PR Dollars

November 6, 2009 ⋅ 19 comments

The use of Public Relations firms to build support for everything from jails to street cars and now football bowl bids is reaching the level of absurdity. Does anyone really believe ADVERTISING and promotion will influence coaches and sports writers to grant BSU a bowl game bid? The most prominent recent PR exercise was the [...]

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