Comments on: Kudos To City For Choosing Local Art

By: Zippo

Zippo — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 18:23:35 +0000

Maybe we can charge the artist rent for display space rather than burn all that money.

By: bikeboy

bikeboy — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 20:26:55 +0000

A Boise artist was chosen? Doesn’t Idaho deny gay marriage? So Mayor Beiter must hate gay people, huh? We should choose an artist from a gay-friendly place! (And those places obviously have more artistic people anyway.)

(Just pokin’ fun…)

On the serious side… I’d be sorry to see the existing fountain get removed. Why? My granddaughter and I have often stopped there to cool down when cycling on hot summer days. (They may seem distant now… but in late July we’ll be sad if we can’t detour to that fountain.)

By: rabula

rabula — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 16:18:06 +0000

“Bowing to pressure from the GUARDIAN . . . we have advocated using local talent and they finally listened.”

Cpongrats, Dave; we knew that with relentless pressure on City Hall you —almost single-handedly — could make it happen!

EDITOR NOTE–Thanks for the kind words! This is just one of a long line of issues we have influenced in the city and appreciate your acknowledgement of our continued success. P.S.–if you run for city council, you get my vote.

By: Grumpy ole guy

Grumpy ole guy — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 08:17:06 +0000

I had thought that the drinking fountain was a gift of more than “just” Mrs Morrison. It was, as I recall, originally from the local WCTU (Womens Christian Temperance Union) so that “good” citizens would not have to enter saloons to find pure liquids with which to quench their thirst. It was re-furbished by a local group of women as a part of a commemoration of the WCTU and of other pioneer women’s contributions to early Boise development, I had thought. I do not recall it’s original location.

By: kmarko

kmarko — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 06:34:44 +0000

How about some actual art for our $200K rather than this garbage that looks like reconstituted leftovers from the junk yard. Blobs of metal vaguely resembling groves of trees and reflecting light in presumably inspiring ways doesn’t constitute art. Way to waste more tax money City Hall.