Comments on: Links To Mayor Runoff Race

By: Forced Air

Forced Air — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 02:07:55 +0000

The comments on homeless must be addressed. I totally agree with those concerned that if we install any policy that encourages MORE influx of homeless, that will put us where Commiefornia is right now.

I worked at a homeless shelter and there are many issues driving homeless causation. A functioning economy with a proper monetary base will solve most of the economic borne causes. The mental based issues are the hardest. The vomit on canvas claim by the above poster reveals willful ignorance about mental institutions. Read Dr. Bruce Levine’s work on the Psyche industry and YOU will NEVER want to see a shrink for anything, either.

We can’t leave them on the streets but you just don’t stick them in a mental ward and expect a solution. It’s like what happens in retirement homes, people are lost in a tortuous system. Oh, the gun comment betrays a hoplophobic sentiment….noted.

The fact is, Commiefornia looks like a place that doesn’t WANT to solve the problem, it looks like a place that wants a chaotic atmosphere to drive sane people out of the state. Well, it’s WORKING! The Big Tech firms can count on the cops to keep the street people away from their homes and properties, while the politicians wax endlessly on problems that THEY all created.

The same will happen here unless people get out of their tribal igloos and smell the coffee.

Oh, and comparing Bieter with Trump is laughable and indicative of a serious cognitive dissonance problem. Someone is watching waaaaaaay too much Mockingbird Press. #FakeNews

By: western guy

western guy — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 04:34:39 +0000

Just where is the lapdog City Council during all of this rambling? Let’s get new blood on the Council in addition to running Dave out of office.

Boise Needs Better!

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:21:09 +0000

Didn’t Ronald Reagan, as President, change how and the criteria for patients at mental institutions?
Instead of people with mental disabilities being taken care of at institutions now they can get a gun and live in the streets. How did we get here!

By: Tom Lorentz

Tom Lorentz — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:36:27 +0000

I just read a letter to the editor in one of this weeks issue of the Idaho Press this morning which indicated that if re-elected mayor Bieter was going to challenge in court, over the wording, the initiatives that passed by 2/3 of the vote in Boise.

I am waiting for Bieter to claim the election was rigged.

By: The Wolf

The Wolf — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 22:31:45 +0000

A Bieter campaigner left a flyer at my front door this morning, interestingly asking me to vote for D.B. on November 5th.
The young man told me how important every vote is, since the Bieter campaign is expecting very low turnout on runoff day, in the area of 30%.
The true enemy of democracy is voter apathy. Please make the effort to vote.

By: Reread the source

Reread the source — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 21:08:05 +0000

There are lots of subcategories of homeless. Vets – the VA should help them. Abused women – they are a category. Drug addicts – another specialty. Teenagers – another category. There is not a one size fits all.

But it does take someone to care about someone else.

People have always lived on the fringe. If all the busses did not go downtown maybe there would be more problems and answers in the north end or east end. (lol)

Businesses pay those taxes to run the city. Please don’t let the homeless run my customer away.

By: Easterner

Easterner — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:40:00 +0000

For the 3 above commentators:
So what is your solution for homeless people?

By: Reread the source

Reread the source — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:25:31 +0000

McLean did not say she would stop the litigation. There is too much forward momentum to just stop it. It could be rejected, or COB could lose, but it is not McLean’s doing.
jh

By: Las Vegas Rebel

Las Vegas Rebel — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 05:59:00 +0000

Homeless- You hit the ball out of the park! Best post on Boise’s urban outdoorsman (homeless) I’ve ever read. There are many resources for these people in Boise but they choose to under utilize them.

Bikeboy- Building housing for them will not solve the problem. It will exacerbate the problem 10 fold. If you build it they will come. We will have a huge influx of these types if we coddle them with housing and other services. What’s next? We buy cars for them? Bieter has the right idea with the no camping ordinance. If we allow this our streets and parks will look like San Francisco and downtown will resemble skid row in no time. McClean is against the ordinance and said she would stop the litigation if she was elected. She has said that Bieter was wrong for dismantling Cooper Court.

Weather Bieter is elected again or McClean is voted in, we must make sure our city leaders are doing what’s best for the city as a whole and not 500-1500 people who want to trash the place.

By: Homeless not the right name

Homeless not the right name — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 21:22:40 +0000

Please stop calling it homelessness. That misinformation is the largest part of the problem. The misidentifying of the problem keeps the focus off the core cause.

They got nowhere to live because they are NUTS and everyone they know to include their own family has kicked them out. We are looking at a pandemic of untreated mental illness. Most are addicted from self medication with available drugs and alcohol. There are open beds in Boise now, but they require the person be sober. Everyone who thinks this be resolved with a cheap place to live is either motivated by profit (TeamDave) or is horribly ignorant. TeamDave wants taxpayers to pay for housing even though they know full well it’s not a solution. TeamDave and developer friends profit from building, any building for any reason.