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Fame, Greed Behind Special Winter Olympics
PREFACE
I have lived in Boise all my adult life–38 of those 40 years in the first and only home I ever owned. There is no other place on earth I care to live. My roots go deep and I am on a first name basis with most of the movers and shakers, [...]
Note The Kiosks With Notices
The Veterans had trouble getting publicity for the November 11 parade without getting crosswise of an ordinance that prohibits posting flyers in the downtown area.
Not only is it illegal to post on signal boxes and lamp posts, merchants were reluctant to place the signs in their windows. Doug Foote, a retired Idaho Air [...]
G-BAD Losing Streak Intact
The G-Bad Boys at the Greater Boise Auditorium District got hold of a new reporter at the Daily Paper and were able to lull him into publishing “disinformation,” about the need for a new convention center.
District Manager Pat Rice was quoted saying there is a great demand for an expanded convention center. He claimed [...]
City Plans To Market Depot, Exclude Public
Only those able to afford rental fees will be welcomed at The Boise Depot after the city council approves a new plan to increase efforts at “niche marketing” of the facility for private events.
A committee of Team Dave supporters has been meeting–after getting their marching orders from the Mayor last spring. THEIR REPORT and [...]
Down Side Of Absentee Ballot
Traveling in New Hampshire this week where all the license plates remind us, “Live Free or Die.”
Local discussion here in the Granite State seems to be about absentee ballots–when not talking about “leaf peepers” and the awesome progression of fall color across the state. Today, in Boise the clerk has begun mailing 50,000 ballots requested by voters [...]
Aimless Visitors On Boise Streets
Sunday the GUARDIAN bumped into some real nice tourists from Canada pouring over a highway map at a local coffee shop.
Being the know-it-all GUARDIAN, we asked if the visitors needed some directions.
“We went to your capitol, but it was boarded up, so we went to the Depot and it too was closed. Do you [...]
