Archive for April, 2007

Idaho Legislature Votes to Close Primaries, Parks, Borders, Schools, Libraries, and Minds

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the newsletter or RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Idaho Legislature re-affirmed the balance of one-party rule in their last day of the 2007 session. The measures were publicly positioned as cost-saving strategies, but many Idaho conspiracy theorists suspected an ulterior moral-control agenda.
Election Primaries [...]


Melaleuca Buys Naming Rights to City

Melaleuca, Inc. announced today that they had purchased the naming rights to the entire city of Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Rumors were rampant for weeks that Melaleuca CEO Frank Vandersloot was about to ink a deal with the Idaho Falls mayor and city council. Many locals figured the move was inevitable, due to Frank being the [...]


PayDay Loan Opens in Local Church Foyer

Local church patrons expressed mixed reactions to a predator lender setting up shop in their church foyer.

“Of course we walk past it on our way to the main area, so did they have to paint their stand in such bright awful colors?” wondered an elderly woman.
Some people found the outrageous fees and [...]


April 1, 2007 State of the City Blog

March 2007 was our eighteenth operational month, and we earned about 15,600 visitors! All you visitors and participants are awesome. We now have 488 articles, which have generated 4,622 comments.
We dipped a bit on article quantity last month, but probably because I forgot to tell everyone that I moved the “REGISTER” and “LOGIN” links from [...]