Watch out for the self driving car freaks and others pushing lavish public transportation agenda. Always money losers plus the only way they can make that junk function is to take away your rights to drive your car wherever and whenever you want. It takes intuition to safely drive in traffic. They can’t program intuition so they want to take away the other traffic with driver bans.

The pollution solution is improved cars, not public cars, trains, buses etc.

The congestion solution is to work from home and use deliveries instead of retail. (However, work from home is discouraged by many large companies (such as Yahoo’s Blonde CEO) because they fear they cannot enforce their social agenda template upon the worker. They want you to sit in your box at the office so they can literally keep you in a box. We need to change this corporate thinking.)

EDITOR NOTE–That info is all on the city council agenda. Much of it is hidden in the “consent agenda” but can be accessed on line. I simply cannot do it myself and still have the life of a retired old geezer.

In short:
Referring to local (and distant) news people as stupid, brainwashed, unreliable, and untimely (comments here) is not helping anyone or anything.

I was thanking the Boise Guardian and my fellow readers for primarily focusing on issues and problems that are right here at home.

There are a thousand media outlets, forums, etc., where ten thousand “experts” weigh in on economic disparity, Obamacare or lack thereof, illegal aliens, black lives matter, terrorism, etc., etc. I can find those discussions! (And yes! Those issues affect us Boise bumpkins… no denying it! But how much value is there, in yet one more forum to rant about those things that are controlled 600 miles, or 2600 miles, from here?)

What I find lacking, by comparison, is reliable and timely information about Boise-centric issues… “metro” Boise issues, what’s going on in Ada County and Idaho. I’m tipping my hat to the Boise Guardian for staying focused on that stuff. That’s all.

What happens in California directly affects Boise.
What happens in DC directly affects Boise.
If a Californian with a million dollars cash is competing against your new mortgage for a new house- growthphobia doesn’t matter.
Other states create issue for Boise.

If you can’t afford to buy prescriptions, who gives a crap whether there is a CVS on the corner. Is St Luke’s expanding? That “vote” is only for people with insurance.
And if DC doesn’t accept cannabis oil to treat your child because you live in Idaho, a move seems imminent.
National health care is a Boise issue.

National politics creates local politics.

When a cop in Missouri kills an unarmed man and gets away with it, it’s only a short time before a bull crosses the road in Idaho and a rancher is killed, needlessly.
And then next, it’s a Boise issue too.

Don’t solve the border problem… Idaho dairymen won’t have workers to bring milk to your Boise table.
That becomes a local issue.
I like milk!
and so on.

‘How’ the national issues affect Boise is the story.

There are plenty of media outlets that go on ad nauseam about our broken federal government. Nothing seems to change, regardless of whether it’s the Demicans or Republocrats in charge. (The only thing that changes is the National Debt – which goes up about $1 trillion per year.)

By contrast, now and then we really DO see citizens MAKING A DIFFERENCE on the more local level. I would submit that the Boise Guardian has proven to be likely the BEST resource for keeping concerned citizens aware of local issues.

Thanks for keeping it local, Dave! And may your ’18 resolutions all be realized!

-bikeboy