Unless I’ve missed it, Idaho Falls seems to be lacking very many streets named after U.S. presidents. There appears to be no Arthur, Buchanan, Bush (Sr. or Jr.), Carter, Clinton, Coolidge, Eisenhower, Fillmore, Ford, Grant, Harrison (Ben or William), Hayes, Hoover, Kennedy, McKinley, Monroe, Pierce, Polk, Roosevelt, Taft, Truman, Tyler, or Van Buren. Whether you love or hate any of their individual politics is irrelevant in this case; they earned the presidency and it is a shame we have avoided using over half of their names in our streets.
It would be nice to have an entire new neighborhood development name their streets after some of these ‘missing’ presidents. In fact, that could lead the development to be called something like ‘The Presidential’, ‘Executive Orders’, ‘Executive Privileges’, ‘Western White Houses’, etc.
New neighborhood developers that are naming streets should try to consider more educational words like some of these leftover presidential names, names of famous American inventors, visionaries, or heroes. Streets could also be named after terms that kids struggle with in school, like names of periodic elements or terms used in anatomy or various technology fields.
Streets named after words that have history or profound meaning would seem to be more important than some of the sillier made-up words currently being bestowed on our new neighborhoods.
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Gato got runned over by Marcus many moons ago. Be ye daft, 2486? 
Let's have a new poll, alright, Joe?
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