Dave Frazier
Transit Sounds Good, Costs Too Much
By Ronald M. Harriman GUARDIAN READER Your legislators will be asked this year to allow a local option tax for transit in the Treasure Valley. The transit plan proposed by the local Idaho transit folks is $1.2 Billion dollars over the next 20 years, probably funded with sales taxes. It SOUNDS good…”it will clean […]
Liars And Perverts Are Usually Forgiven
A RANT BASED ON NEWS OF THE PAST FEW DAYS–PLEASE ADD YOUR FAVORITES OR PREACH FORGIVENESS Larry Craig and the people who want to place him in the Idaho Hall of Fame cheapen the “honor” for all who follow. Sandy Berger, who stole highly classified documents from the National Archives, and lied to investigators, is […]
WinCo Insider Trades At City Hall
Gotta Hand it to Team Dave. When it comes to manipulating the media and public they do a darn good job. We groused (among other things) about spending money on the city owned railroad to nowhere in a CAMPAIGN ISSUES posting June 25 which turned into a defense of a kayak park. Turns out any […]
Whose Side Are They On?
A GUARDIAN reader suggests we pass a county ordinance similar to federal law for lobbyists. He notes the recent announcement that Richard Cook, administrator of Ada County P & Z, is leaving to take a high paid position at WRG Design, a consulting group to SunCor and Spring Valley Ranch. This revolving door situation […]
Idaho Does Not Deserve Craig
If having the Broncos on ESPN is worth “thousands in publicity for Idaho” and promoting Boise in the United Airlines magazine is worth more than half a million dollars, we wonder how much Larry Craig’s antics has COST…probably a lot more than all the “positives.” The poetic justice comes in the half million dollars the […]
COMMISHES ABOLISH SLAVERY
WOW! The Ada Commishes can get things done quickly when they want to. After a Friday GUARDIAN posting brought allegations to their attention regarding SLAVE LABOR (a catchy headline we thought), they convened a hasty Tuesday meeting to discuss the practice of sentencing juvenile offenders to work at a private commercial enterprise. The Commishes unanimously […]
Mayor Hotline September 22 to 28
THE GLENN MILES SHOW!! 9/21/07 Glenn Miles 1306 N. 26th St. Boise, ID 83702 BSU Partnership: Boy, you’d think the greeting would be a lot shorter since this is the Mayor’s Hotline for the secretary that reads the greeting end. I would like to know what the Mayor and City Council are doing in order […]
Guardian View In Daily Paper
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING IN SUNDAY’S EDITION Growth and a reluctance to allow the public a vote are the main issues facing Boise Citizens in the months ahead. The council has pursued a policy of circumventing voters with their legal battle over the airport parking garage–they still have not held a bond election, despite […]
County Provides Slave Labor
SLAVE– • a person who works very hard without proper remuneration… The Civil War may have ended slavery, but not in Ada County where children are working without pay at a commercial retail establishment. The GUARDIAN has received a complaint of slave labor–literally–right here in Ada County. It is a serious matter in need of […]
Tibbs Shoots Self In Foot AGAIN
Some say Jim Tibbs shot himself in the foot over allegations of ethics violations by the mayor and his fellow councilors. The ethics committee dropped the charges within minutes of reviewing them. Wednesday the Tibbs campaign fired a round into his other foot when he “challenged” Bieter in a press release that began, “Today Jim […]
Mayor Funds Lobby, Still No Signs
The GUARDIAN editor thought nothing could make the cramped seating on last week’s United Airlines flight more painful until he looked at the seat back magazine with pictures of Team Dave’s leader Dave Bieter and the sights of the city. Our taxes were used–in part–to pay the estimated $700,000 to publish the puff piece which […]
September 8 to 21
NOISY NORTHENDERS, FIX MY TICKET, GOOD COP BAD COP, WEDDING PARTY POOPERS AT DEPOT, COPS TREAT BEAR BETTER THAN ELK 9/19/07 Ryan Fisher 1917 N. 33rd St. Boise, ID Depot: My fiancé and I were planning on getting married in front of the Train Depot on October 20th; we’ve had it reserved since this spring […]
BooBoo Spared Despite Threat
FROM THE GUARDIAN CROUCH BUREAU CHIEF Boise is not the only place with bears this year. This is the second bear I’ve seen around our place at Crouch this fall. The other one was bigger than this one and did not have that distinctive white patch on its chest. In this case, I made a […]
Save A Tree Read On Line
This came in overnight to the GUARDIAN and brought back memories of the “old days” when newspapers were mostly printed on broad sheets–not narrow little pages we see today with type too small to read. “I have a tip about waste at BSU. Every Thursday they toss perhaps 2000 copys of last weeks campus newspaper. […]
Most Wanted People Violated The Court
When Larry Craig’s daughter posted bond recently in connection with contempt of court charges, the GUARDIAN noted she may not even have known she was “wanted.” That’s because so many warrants are out there. We did some more checking with the Ada County Sheriff’s office and found there are over 16,000 warrants outstanding at present. […]
Tibbs Presents A Real Issue
Boise City Councilor and candidate for Mayor Jim Tibbs offered up a statement today saying he opposed forced annexation without a vote of those being annexed. While the GUARDIAN will not be endorsing any candidates for public office, we do endorse the concept of allowing citizens to vote on major spending issues and things like […]
Minority Vote Could Win Council Race
Thanks to a self serving law passed by most of the incumbent city councilors, they will probably be re elected whether or not they get a majority of the vote. After the Brent Coles administration debacle, Councilors voted to “clean up city hall,” and among other things passed ordinances mandating that candidates must have a […]
Urban Wilderness Conflict
As Boise continues to grow houses into the foothills and desert surrounding the city, look for more incidents involving wildlife like Wednesday’s elk chase. The GUARDIAN editor spotted a deer standing in the middle of Federal Way near The Depot and the Capital-Vista intersection this summer. In a nutshell, at least 5 elk wandered into […]
Avimor Highway Access Problems?
Attend a public hearing for a proposed real estate development and you will likely hear the developer ask the regulatory authority to waive many of the codes, rules, and regulations pertaining to such projects. When an agency like Ada County or Idaho Transportation Department yields to such requests, a developer gets a good deal, and […]
Ada Commishes Spending Spree
A good story in the Daily Paper by reporter Cynthia Sewell last week got buried thanks to the antics of Sen. Larry Craig and family. She tells us in a positive manner the Commishes are running amok in the real estate game grabbing property all over the county for expansion of county facilities. It won’t […]
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