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Gay Comment From Minneapolis
THIS POST COMES FROM AN OPENLY GAY GUARDIAN READER LIVING IN MINNEAPOLIS Sex in bathroom stalls is incredibly disgusting and typically involves note passing and whatever signals indicate that a person is available. Public bathrooms have become quite risky for guys on the prowl, gay, straight or bisexual. According to a (gay) friend, there is […]
Good Clean Fun
Double entendres and crude puns aside, the saga of Larry Craig and the toilet cop has been a welcome relief from stories of endless forest fires and hot summer days. One local office has a set of “rules” posted on the stall of the men’s room which include: –Wide stance not permitted –No toe tapping […]
Decider Craig Makes Wrong Decision
Without regard to Senator Larry Craig’s potty training–you don’t use a “stance” so wide that you encroach on your neighbor’s space–the entire debacle in the Minneapolis airport toilet has shown the world Idaho has a “decider” who decides wrong. We don’t know if the man is gay, nor do we care. That is not the […]
Craig Arrested In Mens Room Incident
Chances are pretty good Idaho senator Larry Craig probably won’t seek re election, ending speculation and maneuvering by Republicans, following today’s revelation he was arrested in June and fined in a Minneapolis court August 8. Seems the Senator had a “misunderstanding” in the men’s room of the Minneapolis Airport in June. According to a report […]
Ada County Courthouse Too Small?
Ada County Assessor Bob McQuade is looking forward to improving public access to his office when it moves out of the court house, but the GUARDIAN’s radar went on high alert when we got the tip. Seems the new Ada court house on Front Street is just too small to house all the agencies currently […]
Signs Of The Political Times
First it was the ethics flap with Team Dave’s PR firm doing business with the city. Now someone on the fourth floor of the Washington Mutual building–that’s about eye level with Mayor Dave’s City Hall office window–has installed TIBBS FOR MAYOR posters in their window. Almost as annoying as those darn yellow jackets! The Tibbs […]
Tibbs Offers His Response
Here is the text of a Tibbs statement issued Thursday. Maybe the self-inflicted gunshot to the foot has potential of healing. “I am responding to an Idaho Statesman Opinion Dated August 3, 2007. To be clear: Had the resolution to pay $65,000.00 to the Gallatin Group been decided on the date scheduled by Mayor Dave […]
Tibbs Needs Political Lessons
We’re back on the ground in the city of trees going through recent press releases, news reports, and e-mails from readers. Looks like the most pressing GUARDIAN issue is the Tibbs-Bieter flap over ethics. From everything we can determine Tibbs has shot himself in the foot with allegations of ethics lapses on the part of […]
Politicos Dislike Public Scrutiny
Lee Iacocca could well have been talking about Ada County in his new book, “WHERE HAVE ALL THE LEADERS GONE?” Add Eagle Mayor Nancy Merrill to the list of well intended inept elected officials. In keeping with the tradition of excluding the public from hearing the public’s business, she scheduled a meeting of city and […]
Gentlemen, Start Your Engines
Following two Daily Paper Sunday reports noting that he was a nice guy, but had offered no substance, Boise City Councilor and mayoral candidate Jim Tibbs revved his engine Monday at incumbent Dave Bieter on the topic of working with ACHD. Tibbs issued a press release applauding an Ada County Highway District-funded Study which said […]
Boise City Campaign Issues
The single most important role of any city council is the budget process. Boise City is about to embark on the process of deciding how to spend more than $157,000,000 of our tax money. The department heads will parade through with power point presentations full of charts and graphs explaining why their requests should be […]
Your Ride Tells All, Even With Bikes
After a recent movie at the Flicks Theater a friend remarked as we came outside, “Look at all the Northender Bikes.” We never thought of bicycles as having a demographic origin, but sure enough–most of the bikes looked perfectly at home in the North End. You all know what we are talking about. Those fat […]
Development Tide May Be On Ebb
The young man sitting next to me on the flight to Boise grew excited when I told him I have lived in the same home for nearly 36 years. “Wow! You gotta be happy about property values going up over that amount of time,” said the newcomer from San Jose. He had attended university and […]
Two Wheelers Get 15 Free Parking Sites
Chalk up a big win for GUARDIAN reader Hillary Haymond. Team Dave’s parking czar John Eichmann today announced a massive downtown parking plan for two wheelers–in response to CITIZEN REQUESTS spearheaded by Ms. Haymond and GUARDIAN readers. PHOTO–HILLARY AND MAYOR DAVE BIETER In a press release Eichmann said, “ As a result of last year’s […]
Why Super Majority Vote Is Fair
A recent batch of bond elections for schools, library, and a community college have caused the old “super majority” issue to once again raise its ugly head. MOST of the recent bonds in the state have passed the 2/3 super majority. Those in FAVOR of the bonds–not unfairly labeled as “liberals”–see the 67% majority as […]
Publisher Could Take $700,000 From Valley
We can’t tell if the Daily Paper got enticed by the Chamber of Commerce or if they are consenting adults, but a recent business page story was a bit off the mark in our opinion. United Airlines in-flight magazine publisher, Pace Communications, stands to take about $700,000 from Treasure Valley businesses if they sell 36 […]
Irish Tenor Sings Swan Song
We don’t know if he is a tenor or if he can even sing, but we won’t have Mike Murphy to kick around any more. He has returned all his campaign contributions and offers this “swan song:” “For personal reasons (all very good ones fortunately), I have made the decision to drop-out of the Boise […]
Buying Votes For C. College
GUARDIAN sources tell us more than 10,000 Ada County residents have already applied for absentee ballots in the single issue Community College election. The Community College vote on May 22 has us concerned because there is just too much money being tossed at this thing by too many well to do people in the big […]
Bull Moose Murphy For Mayor
Perhaps stung by the GUARDIAN’s lack of serious regard for his declaration as the Bull Moose candidate for Boise Mayor, Mike Murphy has issued the following statement: “Much ado has been made about my candidacy on MySpace, earning me the somewhat derogatorily delivered moniker amongst some members of the local press as: “The MySpace Candidate.” […]
Report From Sun Valley Growth Meet
A GUARDIAN EXCLUSIVE In their zeal to control the hearts and minds of Valley politicos, the Chamber of Commerce offset a chance to do good with its annual Sun Valley leadership conference. Not only did they sequester the politicos, most were subjected to party line pro-growth presentations. Our correspondent reports that only two of the […]
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