Comments on: GUARDIAN LOOKS BACK AT 2005

By: JoeMoran

JoeMoran — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:35:22 +0000

The ” Boise Guardian” has become a much needed American spokesman for better government here in the Treasure Valley. Thanks for a great year of letting us all know the truth about what local government was and was not doing. 2006 will only get better for all, thanks to the guardian ! Joe

By: c

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:29:06 +0000

Excellent work, Boise Guardian. I can’t think of anywhere else that needed you more.

By: dh

dh — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:16:15 +0000

Guardian,

Thank you for reporting and investigating “our” local governments and some of their exploitive shenanigans.
I also appreciate you supplying a venue to express our views and opinions.
Although we, as taxpayers are being, “robbed” daily through legal extortion , I do not plan to “relax and enjoy it.”
Again thank you, please keep up the great work.
Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year to you.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 02:37:01 +0000

Steve – The neighbors LOST to a “holyier than thou” City Council that has a “pack’em in higher and deeper” mentality and to a developer that THREATENED the neighborhood at evey turn. The proposal for more units was simply his strategy to propose more – give up some – and get what he really wanted in the first place.

We did learn some great things – one of which is that Bill Clark is Alan Shealy’s good friend, Ellaine Clegg can recuse herself and still keep her hand (and nose) in every aspect of the process and that the City Planning Staff and Council can care less about what nieghbrhoods think – or look like after they destroy them.

Maybe they will destroy your nieghborhood next – then your view might change.

By: meglea

meglea — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:10:24 +0000

Way to go, Guardian, and thank you! I sure do appreciate your efforts to get to the heart of the issues and report the sub rosa dealings that don’t make it past the editors at the Statesman. Here’s to a great maiden year!

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:55:08 +0000

Just a nit-picky comment, Guardian.

On the Depot Bench vs. the Developer… you say the neighbors lost. Not true. The original proposal was substantially bigger than the final, approved plan. So the neighbors indeed had an influence, and they should be commended for their involvement. (Although seems to me if the owners of some of those 6000-square-foot Crescent Rim palaces of pretentiousness came out to protest a development that “wasn’t right for the neighborhood,” that would be ironic indeed.)