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Scorched Images For Fire Depts.
Looks like the area fire departments could use some better public relations spin doctors. First Eagle botched the override election by having a single polling place for the fire district while voters at other precincts in the city–not the same boundaries as the fire district–didn’t realize they had to vote twice if they wanted to […]
Assessor’s Tax Jumps Too
Guest Opinion By Robert McQuade, Ada County Assessor Last Friday I received a message left on the Boise Mayor’s hotline. The caller said, “The tax assessor must be smiling all the way to the bank thinking we were going to get any [property tax] relief.” If the caller only knew that my assessed property value […]
Assessor’s Tax Jumps Too
Guest Opinion By Robert McQuade, Ada County Assessor Last Friday I received a message left on the Boise Mayor’s hotline. The caller said, “The tax assessor must be smiling all the way to the bank thinking we were going to get any [property tax] relief.” If the caller only knew that my assessed property value […]
Assessor’s Tax Jumps Too
Guest Opinion By Robert McQuade, Ada County Assessor Last Friday I received a message left on the Boise Mayor’s hotline. The caller said, “The tax assessor must be smiling all the way to the bank thinking we were going to get any [property tax] relief.” If the caller only knew that my assessed property value […]
Assessor’s Tax Jumps Too
Guest Opinion By Robert McQuade, Ada County Assessor Last Friday I received a message left on the Boise Mayor’s hotline. The caller said, “The tax assessor must be smiling all the way to the bank thinking we were going to get any [property tax] relief.” If the caller only knew that my assessed property value […]
MAYOR’S HOTLINE May 29 to June
5/26/2006 Alisa Rettfchlage 2804 Taft Boise, ID 83703 Kastera: I am calling because I am very concerned about the Kastera subdivision that is going in between 36th street and Bogus Basin. I walk there every day and it is a recreation area for me, my husband and my family. To take that away you are […]
MAYOR’S HOTLINE May 29 to June
5/26/2006 Alisa Rettfchlage 2804 Taft Boise, ID 83703 Kastera: I am calling because I am very concerned about the Kastera subdivision that is going in between 36th street and Bogus Basin. I walk there every day and it is a recreation area for me, my husband and my family. To take that away you are […]
MAYOR’S HOTLINE May 29 to June
5/26/2006 Alisa Rettfchlage 2804 Taft Boise, ID 83703 Kastera: I am calling because I am very concerned about the Kastera subdivision that is going in between 36th street and Bogus Basin. I walk there every day and it is a recreation area for me, my husband and my family. To take that away you are […]
MAYOR’S HOTLINE May 29 to June
5/26/2006 Alisa Rettfchlage 2804 Taft Boise, ID 83703 Kastera: I am calling because I am very concerned about the Kastera subdivision that is going in between 36th street and Bogus Basin. I walk there every day and it is a recreation area for me, my husband and my family. To take that away you are […]
Parks Credibility On The Line
If you want to visit the Historic Boise Depot or show it off to out of town visitors this summer, don’t hold your breath. Boise Parks has a history of broken promises with the Depot. A sign on the front door claims to open the Spanish Mission Style building during summer months, June-September Monday only […]
MAYOR’S HOTLINE May 22 to 26
Library fines, code enforcement, drug house?, foothills development, cops 5/19/06 Mert Wright 2185 Bruneau Code Enforcement: There’s a house down the corner from where I live. There’s trash all around the house and it’s a real disgrace. I wish there was some way the City could get them to clean this up. I have no […]
Take a Trip To Table Rock
While attention is directed to various Foothills developments, we Boiseans have ignored one of the greatest natural wonders of our City–TABLE ROCK. The flat topped outcropping of sandstone with the white “B”, cross and dozens of communication antennae overlooks the city and the entire valley. From Table Rock you can easily see in excess of […]
Boise BS On Poop Farm
The GUARDIAN has obtained a draft of Boise’s Poop Farm audit. It has taken nearly a year to be released due to criminal investigations. It is a damning document which paints a picture of deceit, forgery, preferential treatment, inept and shoddy accounting, outright theft, falsified documents, misuse of public funds and property, unethical practices by […]
Eagle Voters Burned In “Stealth Election”
About 90% of Eagle residents who went to the polls Tuesday missed out on an important Fire District vote because that election was held at a single location apart from the other 6 polling precincts. About 3,000 residents voted in Eagle in the primary, but the permanent Fire override tax levy had fewer than 300 […]
Eagle Voters Burned In “Stealth Election”
About 90% of Eagle residents who went to the polls Tuesday missed out on an important Fire District vote because that election was held at a single location apart from the other 6 polling precincts. About 3,000 residents voted in Eagle in the primary, but the permanent Fire override tax levy had fewer than 300 […]
Eagle Voters Burned In “Stealth Election”
About 90% of Eagle residents who went to the polls Tuesday missed out on an important Fire District vote because that election was held at a single location apart from the other 6 polling precincts. About 3,000 residents voted in Eagle in the primary, but the permanent Fire override tax levy had fewer than 300 […]
Eagle Voters Burned In “Stealth Election”
About 90% of Eagle residents who went to the polls Tuesday missed out on an important Fire District vote because that election was held at a single location apart from the other 6 polling precincts. About 3,000 residents voted in Eagle in the primary, but the permanent Fire override tax levy had fewer than 300 […]
MAYOR’S HOTLINE May 15 to 19, 2006
COPS, POLITICAL MESSAGES IN CITY MAIL, CYCLE PARKING DOWNTOWN John Kirtland Ustick Widening: I live over in the big “L” subdivision and in regards to making Ustick five lanes, it is absolutely absurd. You need to take another look at that if you would. I think it is way too much for that street. M/CC […]
MAYOR’S HOTLINE May 15 to 19, 2006
COPS, POLITICAL MESSAGES IN CITY MAIL, CYCLE PARKING DOWNTOWN John Kirtland Ustick Widening: I live over in the big “L” subdivision and in regards to making Ustick five lanes, it is absolutely absurd. You need to take another look at that if you would. I think it is way too much for that street. M/CC […]
MAYOR’S HOTLINE May 15 to 19, 2006
COPS, POLITICAL MESSAGES IN CITY MAIL, CYCLE PARKING DOWNTOWN John Kirtland Ustick Widening: I live over in the big “L” subdivision and in regards to making Ustick five lanes, it is absolutely absurd. You need to take another look at that if you would. I think it is way too much for that street. M/CC […]
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