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Mayor Hotline December 12 to 18

December 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

CHRISTIAN NUISANCE, EVEN MORE ANTI STREET CAR, RACE ISSUE, OLD GLORY WORNOUT, TRASH TALK, PANHANDLERS
12/12/09
Anonymous
Fire Alarm: Hello, it is Saturday and it is just before 11:00 p.m. The Cathedral of the Rockies,
located at W. Franklin and N. 11th has their fire alarm going off again. I mean this thing goes off
all the time. I can’t [...]

Boise Ambulance Deal Full Of Holes

August 18, 2009 ⋅ 31 comments

Bids will be opened at 1:30 Wednesday for a new Boise Fire Department ambulance, but even at this late date it is not a “done deal.”
The City is rushing to get an ambulance transport license from the State of Idaho in advance of anticipated new administrative rules that would require officials to consider the following:
–FASTER [...]

Mayor Hotline August 8 to 14

August 18, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

LOTS OF TRASH TALK, AMTRAK NOT ALL POSITIVE, TOWING IN THE PARK
8/11/09
Jason Hill
Boise, ID
Amtrak: I was just calling about the whole Amtrak thing and I do not think that the Mayor is on the right track with that. We don’t need any more taxes in this city; we have enough in this county; [...]

Mayor Hotline August 1 to 7

August 13, 2009 ⋅ 10 comments

BOISE NEEDS A MISSISSIPPI LAW
8/2/09
Matta Jo Fox
Panhandlers: I am visiting from Mississippi and I’m staying here with my daughter who lives in
Boise. My daughter and I were quite concerned going down to the Bodo area and the Grove
fountain for some functions down there, about all the vagrant people who are camped out on
that little [...]

Pace Of Missing Kid Case In High Gear

July 31, 2009 ⋅ 9 comments

As of 3:30pm Friday the pace of the police investigation into the case of missing 8- year-old Robert Manwill has hit high gear with the mother’s apartment and now the county landfill declared crime scenes.
The Daily Paper is doing a great job covering the story and offers up a TIMELINE of events.
At the Oak Park [...]

Mayor Hotline July 11 to 17

July 23, 2009 ⋅ 9 comments

LIBRARY PARKING COMPLAINTS FROM NON GREENIES, WEEDS,
7/13/09
Brandi Arnold
672-1107
Ustick Library: I have a concern about the new library on Cole and Ustick giving preferential
parking to those with energy efficient cars. I have spoken w/ Denyce McNeeley at the library as
well as Maryann Jordan. I have yet to receive an answer as to what this parking [...]

Wise Voters Behind New Library, Police Digs

June 27, 2009 ⋅ 7 comments

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 [...]

More Join GUARDIAN With Trolley Concerns

June 14, 2009 ⋅ 11 comments

Looks like at least some of Boise’s business folks–even those appointed by Team Dave to promote a trolley–are leaning just a little toward the GUARDIAN point of view that a trolley is a surefire folly as it stands today.
We continue the mantra: LET THE PEOPLE VOTE ON THE FINANCING! If they vote to tax [...]

Mayor Hotline May 30 to June 5

June 9, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

SOME INTERESTING CALLS THIS WEEK. DOWNTOWN HASSLE, ADANDONED HOUSES, HISTORIC PRESERVATION HAS EXPENSIVE TASTE, IRRIGATION IRRITATION, GREENBELT TRAFFIC JAM, WEEDS
6/2/09
Don Crow
9207 Black Eagle Dr.
Boise, ID 83709
340-5446
Parking: I was a little bit frustrated. I had a business lunch in downtown Boise and got a
parking ticket because the meters only go for an hour and the [...]

Reader Has Debit Card Problem

May 15, 2009 ⋅ 11 comments

Here is a new one we hadn’t heard about previously with plastic money from GUARDIAN reader Mike:
“I got gas on my debit card at a station on Vista May 13th in the amount of
$30+. When I got to work I checked my online bank transactions and they had put a
hold of four $100 amounts [...]

Boise Officials Snookered On Land Deal–Again

April 10, 2009 ⋅ 11 comments

When Boise City officials quietly agreed to trade public land in the area of 27th and Fairview to a group of doctors last September, it triggered threat warnings on the GUARDIAN radar. The docs claimed they would build a “for profit hospital.”
The DAILY PAPER REPORTED this week the docs have dropped their construction [...]

Cool Coppers Get Kudos On Chase

April 9, 2009 ⋅ 9 comments

The Daily Paper ran a big page one story Thursday about Boise Coppers conduct during a chase involving a small time felon.
It all started when a copper spotted a wanted suspect along Broadway, gave chase eastbound on I-84 and ended up at Mt. Home. After nearly six hours they blew out a window and [...]

Fairgrounds Perfect For Farm Theme Park

April 1, 2009 ⋅ 12 comments

After nearly 2 years and $165,000 in consulting fees to come up with ideas for relocating the Western Idaho Fiargrounds, Ada County Commishes have settled on a wise course of action: Do nothing.
Much of the motivation came when a Garden City Councilor proposed some sort of urban renewal project that would put houses at [...]

Mayor Hotline March 21 to 27

March 30, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

REVERE COPPERS, FIREMEN, TEACHERS , and REVILE LOOSE DOGS
3/25/09
Mike Teague
Regarding the economy – In these times the Police Department, Fire Department and teachers are sacrosanct. We cannot eliminate those jobs and we even need more of them. The city can’t survive without them. It’s up to rest of us to take care of ourselves, but [...]

Commishes Nix Chamber Cash

March 6, 2009 ⋅ 16 comments

Kudos to the Ada Commishes for discontinuing an annual $70,000 to the Chamber of Commerce’s “Treasure Valley Partnership”–that group formed to drop big bucks into the national media market to increase our population.
All three Commishes agreed it was not money well spent and decided to curtail the expense. It was billed as a program to [...]

County Does Marketing Survey For Deli

March 5, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

We got a message from a county worker who thought it a bit strange that official county e-mail was used to conduct a marketing survey for the deli located on the first floor of the Court House on Front Street.
The county source sent us a link, but we were unable to open it. Here is [...]

Sources and Attribution–A Discussion

February 27, 2009 ⋅ 14 comments

While the GUARDIAN works hard at offering up good factual information within the posts we make, it is difficult to verify the comments made by readers–most of whom use an alias.
This past week we allowed a lengthy comment regarding Valley Regional Transit and its managers. It was less than complimentary and one reader felt [...]

Some Things Never Change In Vietnam

February 20, 2009 ⋅ 7 comments

THE FOLLOWING IS ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE ON PRESENT DAY VIETNAM FROM GUARDIAN EDITOR DAVE FRAZIER.
It had been 41 years since the infamous Tet Offensive and the Battle of Saigon in early 1968.
I was curious how things looked along Bui Vin Street, my home for a year as a GI, back when I had hair and [...]

Regulatory Agency Demands High Tech Meters

February 18, 2009 ⋅ 13 comments

Cheap thrills peeking at topless babes in the back yard, garden gates left open, and dog bites will soon be things of the past for Idaho Power meter readers.
In fact, meter readers themselves will be passe’ thanks to automated meters which will be installed throughout Southwest Idaho over the next three years. The [...]

Mayor Hotline February 7 to 13

February 16, 2009 ⋅ One comment

TENTH ST. TRANSIT FOR AND AGAINST, COPS AND TICKETS, NO GAS TAX
Toni Newman
1404 N. 24th St.
Boise, ID 83702
Transit Center: I was just reading in the paper this morning, in fact a couple of days ago when I
first read about this plan, I though you guys had lost your minds, and I’m starting to think you
really [...]