Comments on: Tuesday’s Daily Paper A Pleasant Surprise

By: ENERGY

ENERGY — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:50:54 +0000

Regarding the JUMP: Food for thought: I have heard that Design Review Committee member Elizabeth Wolf had Hummel design her home which stands out like a sore thumb in her neighborhood;

Gregory Ugrin was in charge of her project, he is another Design Review member and
works for Hummel. Wolf lambasted the JUMP project. Ugrin was hung up on the
fireproofing of the steel.

Hummel is pissed off that as the most “presteigous” firm in Boise they didn’t get the JUMP project. This all smacks of a major conflict of interest. I haven’t heard anyone bring it up. How about you guys?

EDITOR NOTE– You just did it yourself.

By: Cyclops

Cyclops — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:08:29 +0000

Let’s not forget the press conference where bieter said ” while we are all disappointed that there has been a failure to move forward on this project, there are 2 or 3 developers waiting in the wings to step in and see this project completed”. Yup! He was talking about the famous tourist stop known as our “hole in the ground”!! It was in 2008!!! I am so tired of the lies that come from city hall!!!!!

By: Zippo

Zippo — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:19:53 +0000

I’d like to see a fact check type story that shows the whole money picture full circle. From my tax payments/fees/etc to Dave’s downtown growth that puts more money and benifit back in my pocket then I gave him to start with… The fact check is the key… I think some of these values back to me are overstated. It should be a fairly easy way to calm the resistance. Why don’t they do it?

EDITOR NOTE–You mean like the $5 million Boise Valley Economic Partnership that was to bring in 11,000 high paying jobs…or the $500,000 plus spent on ads in the United Airlines magazine that was to get CEOs to move their firms to Boise?

By: Bus Rider

Bus Rider — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:32:08 +0000

Being familiar with newsrooms, often times a story can be written and then shelved a pretty long time – up to a week, sometimes more.

By: nan emouse

nan emouse — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:10:42 +0000

Well, Dave, I buy the editor being on furlough (if there even is one) but Sewell wrote the article on Monday for Tuesday’s paper. Unless she absolutely doesn’t read her own paper on her off days, she really should have known about Henry’s not coming after all.

The mistake was really inexcusable.

By: Nan Emouse

Nan Emouse — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 04:43:13 +0000

Sure Dave, one day out of 15 or 20 they happen to have local news.

However, the hilarious part is that I don’t think the “journalists” at the Staleman read their own paper. Sewell mentioned in a sidebar that things were hopping in downtown like the grocery store at 15th and Idaho. Guess she didn’t know that a day or two ago, Henry’s declined to build after all. And heaven forfend an editor catch these mistakes.

EDITOR NOTE–Sewell was probably on furlough when Henry pulled out and now the editor is on furlough who would have known it!