Guardian you are right on the cyanide issue, purely political in the way of the announcements have taken place. Team Dave usually spends too much time sticking there noses in others business, usually losing. But I agree with them on this one. There are better ways of extracting gold beside using the heap leaching. Mainly offsite processing of the ore/gold.

As for the legislators’ refusal to let The People vote on mass transit — well, just who do those People think they are, anyway? Do they think this state belongs to them and not to the Legislatue, City Councils, County Commissions, Highway Districts, etc.? Besides, ‘most all of the legislators *know* that the folks who elected them are too damned stupid to be trusted to do anything else.
And colleges? Who needs ’em? People get educated, they just get to wanting better jobs, more pay, etc. (which makes life difficult for Wal-Mart et al.), and then the next thing you know, they get to thinking and reading and suchlike, then first thing you know they ain’t a-gonna keep re-electing the same people over and over and over …
So just lighten up; our esteemed legislators know exactly what they are doing — they ain’t nearly so dumb as they appear.

Maybe you should look A LOT closer than Hammer Flats. Golden Dawn retirement has 2 BIG lagoons right next to the river ( by Barber Dam). 35 years old I hear. Used by Golden Dawn, Riverstone School, Idaho Parks, and of course Shakespeare. Much more danger than Hammer Flats.

But of course since Shakespeare and Idaho Park use it we don’t talk about it.

I guess when the green folks from the Northend go to Shakespeare, and drink their wine and beer this summer, their’s smells a lot better than the folks that will be at Hammer Flats. Let’s all protest Hammmer Flats! Let’s not talk about the folks
that are protesting are using dangerous sewage lagoons that are leaching into the river!

Way to stay on top of things!

EDITOR NOTE–this sounds like it may have a grain of truth, but we hope there are not that many pooper pools placed at these points.

Maybe we should be talking about our out-of-touch legislature that has voted to not give the citizens of Idaho a voice on transportation funding (and has offered no alternative solution), voted to make English the “official languauge” of the state of Idaho (gee, that’s going to really help the citizens of Idaho), voted to not allow even minimum requirements for daycare because it might be a “communist plot”, and is resisting the creation of a community college despite the overwhelming support for one.