Comments on: GUARDIAN Year In Review Ballot https://boiseguardian.com/2010/12/20/guardian-year-in-review-ballot/ A different slant on the news. Sat, 05 Feb 2011 06:01:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: GV Resident https://boiseguardian.com/2010/12/20/guardian-year-in-review-ballot/#comment-22227 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 06:01:03 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5773#comment-22227 And Tomlin continues to cause chaos at Garden Valley. We’re drowning here and we have a super who has only one agenda item – get his contract extended.

Had the Executive Officer of the district acted as such, we wouldn’t be in this mess. Thanks a lot.

]]> By: fiona https://boiseguardian.com/2010/12/20/guardian-year-in-review-ballot/#comment-21563 Sat, 25 Dec 2010 05:09:19 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5773#comment-21563 There is scuttlebut about the Gov. putting some low level person in a $75k/yr job just before they retired to get a huge bump in their PERSI retirement benefits last year. It flew under the radar except for a couple of people who raised a stink and are now paying a polictical price for their candor.

It is this sort of thing that points to the need for a stop to defined benefits and a IRA/401K retirement system for public employees.

On the subject of public employees..they are the very people who turn out for elections and vote in people sympathetic to public employee pay, benefits and retirement issues.

The majority of the voters are playing RIP VANWINKLE on most public issues.

]]> By: Zippo https://boiseguardian.com/2010/12/20/guardian-year-in-review-ballot/#comment-21541 Fri, 24 Dec 2010 05:56:34 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5773#comment-21541 This ties into the “new easy way” to issue debt… All the bankrupt states have been doing it for years:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704278404576037681933247842.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

What wsj.com was too kind to mention, is how many of these people are allowed to pad their overtime just before retirement so the pension will be bigger. We are getting hosed, and even the libs are starting to smell it.

]]> By: Cyclops https://boiseguardian.com/2010/12/20/guardian-year-in-review-ballot/#comment-21538 Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:26:52 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5773#comment-21538 “H” back away from the keyboard and put the pipe down!! What the #%&! are you talking about????

]]> By: H Morgan https://boiseguardian.com/2010/12/20/guardian-year-in-review-ballot/#comment-21535 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:05:50 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5773#comment-21535 Worst case of sudden onset amnesia I have ever seen.  The Guardian story of the year, perhaps the Guardian story of the century, is not even on the list.  

I am talking, of course, about the day Dave’s desicated derriere was dropped in a dumpster with the Frazier Decision stuffed between its cheeks.

Regardless the intent, public oversight of public purchases is now, thanks to the Guardian, at its lowest point since Idaho achieved statehood.

]]> By: Porcupine https://boiseguardian.com/2010/12/20/guardian-year-in-review-ballot/#comment-21502 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:29:12 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5773#comment-21502 Mr. Guardian

One of the “big” stories you missed that has a huge impact on us folks from Boise County is the judgement against Boise county for rejecting Alamar because of unreasonable expectation.
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/12/21/1462743/boise-county-owes-4-million-for.html

Us folks up here are going to have to pay for up to 6 million…. with lawyer fees we are hearing…. and the county is already broke. And no insurance for stupid mistakes by commissioners

Merry Xmas

EDITOR NOTE–Porc, the legacy media did a pretty good job of covering that one. I would be happy to post a version from you and your fellow Boise County folks especially a response to the lawyer comment about you guys reacting, “out of fear and ignorance.”

]]> By: Cyclops https://boiseguardian.com/2010/12/20/guardian-year-in-review-ballot/#comment-21490 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:20:28 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5773#comment-21490 AHAA! I knew you were blond KTA!
Just kidding. In reality, the vast majority of blondes that I know are sharp as a tack and able to go “toe to toe” with anyone on any subject. In fact, I wouldn’t exclude women of any hair color. (It must be my “hair envy” that causes it.)
Anyway, KTA. I hope you have a very merry Christmas and a glorious new year! I need to thank you as well in that I have really enjoyed our “correspondance” this year.

]]> By: Karen F. Ragland https://boiseguardian.com/2010/12/20/guardian-year-in-review-ballot/#comment-21484 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:21:52 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5773#comment-21484 I have come to depend on The Guardian to keep me updated on happenings in Boise. I am now in an assisted living center and do not get out much. Also I want to extend my heartfelt wishes to all of you, staff and regular commenters, for a blessed Christmas and the best New Year.
That being expressed on to disect the potential damage the Legislature will do, and I know they will.

]]> By: JIMV https://boiseguardian.com/2010/12/20/guardian-year-in-review-ballot/#comment-21476 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 04:14:43 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5773#comment-21476 I believe it was the transportation hub scheme, the constant refusal to build anything in the hole downtown, and the fake trolley boondoggle that were the most important.

]]> By: Kappa TA https://boiseguardian.com/2010/12/20/guardian-year-in-review-ballot/#comment-21475 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 03:58:07 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5773#comment-21475 Correction: the approval of the constitutional amendments that rob voters of their rights! Hand is quicker than the eye!

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