Archive for June, 2007

Idaho Falls News Media Shame Themselves with Paparazzi-Like Behaviors

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the newsletter or RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Normally I commend our local media reporters for doing as good a job as is possible. Unfortunately a single hallway moment has spotlighted a severe err in judgment by several local news reporters.
I was reading the […]


RFID “Spychips” Threaten Consumer Privacy

This article was submitted by user Mike. When the backend security code hole is fixed, I will switch author attribution to user Mike. In the meantime, you can still get your own articles published by emailing me at idahofallz( at) gmail(dot )com.

In the coming months as you walk into your favorite store(s) without your knowledge […]


Idaho Falls McDonalds Employee Stared at Young Girl

The first thing my friend told me was, “I saw a pedophile at the Broadway McDonald’s today.”
She described eating in the play area, which was full of families and kids playing. She quickly noticed a male employee emptying the garbage cans staring at one particular preteen girl. She described how he was obviously going slow […]


Idaho Falls Volunteer Daycare Inspectors

It looks like Idaho Falls may adopt tougher daycare standards, and most Idaho Falls residents seem to favor the changes. The PR reported last week Councilwoman Karen Cornwell asking a group of daycare providers if they thought the city was being too extreme, and the group actually wanted tougher standards than what the city was […]


Illegal Immigration: Helpful Solutions and Harmful Pursuits

Is illegal immigration as unsolvable a problem as social security?
This past week it seemed almost certain that Congress would pass and President Bush would sign a bill granting amnesty to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in America.
Most Americans appear to support tightening the borders and establishing guest worker programs, but granting amnesty to law […]


How would you change IdahoFallz.com?

Changes are afoot everywhere this summer.

I am also open to fresh ideas about how to improve IdahoFallz.com, so I open this discussion thread here to anyone with improvement suggestions.
Feel free to discuss policies, visuals, where information is located, and especially new features you would like to see.
Besides giving fresh ideas on what to change, […]


June 1, 2007 State of the City Blog

May 2007 was our twentieth operational month, and we earned over 19,600 visitors! All you visitors and participants are awesome. We now have 517 articles, which have generated 6,171 comments.
A security hole was found in early May that prompted the need to cut off writing and publishing access to IdahoFallz.com. The problem seems to have […]