My fingers were getting tired from calling this site up over and over, only to see you were still hiding in the jungle.

Man, you missed a lot of fun stuff — including the possible Headline of the Year, something like, “Naked man leads police to double murder.!
Don’t get one like that very often.

Yeah, the pols are still up to B.S. It’s amazing how they can keep figuring out new ways to do things wrong.

Re the Statehouse wings: Aside from the fact that I’ve long thought it might be a good idea to hide our legislating goons underground, I don’t quite know why the need a huge expansion. One of the backers pointed out that wings were added to the U.S. Capitol as more states were added. Seems no one pointed out to him that Idaho hasn’t added more states; hasn’t even added more counties for many years.

Oh, but I guess I’m making that dumb mistake again — expecting something they do to make sense.

Anyway, we need The Guardian now as much as ever; keep trying to kick ’em in the head until they ease off on doing stupid things quite so frequently and rapidly.

Lots of important things are taking place and we’re all hoping the “wisdom of the guardian” will give us a chance to add our 2 cents to;
The unneeded expansion of the statehouse or the question does local mass media “sensationalize violent crimes?” or what exactly are the county commishes trying to do with the luxuriantly vacant buildings they built with millions of tax payers dollars? Another is why is the state leg. refusing to give needed tax relief to property owners.How about Al Gores visit to BSU-what a fantastic event!

Then there’s the courageous Boiseans who went to the” Stop the war in Iraq ” mass demo in Wash,DC on 1-27. Bush heard they were comin’and left town on the midnight stage! Oh Guardian Sage,enlighten us ere we descend into spudaho chaos….

No wonder the guy told the Daily that he gets several job offers a week. Au revoir, public service! Who woulda guessed that planned community applications could become such a cottage industry? Curious George, still think there’s no conflict of interest at Ada County Development Services? I have two words for you: WAKE UP!

Even the little coffee shop in the Courthouse is gone now. The apartment buildings next door are still mostly vacant too.

So this is what is known as creative financing!

PS…. You missed Mr. Coles going back to court and being told everything is ok now and it is as if nothing ever happened.

You are fortunate to travel abroad, and for the perspective it provides. Sure, we have our troubles in these parts, and we all tend to be whiners. But at the end of the day, what a BLESSING it is to live in the U.S.A.! So much freedom; so much comparative prosperity. (The “poverty” class in this country doesn’t know what the word means – they should see the shanty towns on the “bad” side of Rio or Sao Paulo, huh?)

A lady visiting from Germany complained to me recently. She said she had gone to the grocery store to get some “Ranch” salad dressing – her favorite. But alas, when she got to the store, there were 50 varieties of RANCH dressing to choose from!

May we Americans appreciate the great gift that is ours.

If the BPD recruited in Alabama or Mississippi…there wouldn’t be any leverage to boost pay. Riverside and OC make it easy to keep the message that they don’t get paid enough coming through, loud and strong.