July 2008

Over the weekend, it looks like another person drowned in the Snake River near Idaho Falls. That’s two in two or three weeks. Another guy drowned on Upper Palisades Lake earlier, and of course the teenager from Pocatello that drowned in the Snake near Massacre Rocks.
I should also mention the family that got into trouble [...]

I grew up eating everything. I mean everything. I’m from Appalachia, and we ate squirrels, bullfrogs and crawdads.  I moved to rural Idaho where we had the usual farm animals, made them into family pets, then we ate them, too. I like the taste of meat, for the most part. Especially charred on the grill (exactly [...]

There’s a story out this morning (Post Register) about the two conservative US Senate candidates in Idaho. Apparently Rex Rammell owes some money to former Congressman George Hansen, about $100K. This info, unflattering to Rammell, was leaked to the media. Rammell says it was Risch supporter Bart Davis who accessed the info without permission from [...]

I am a stepmother.  I had stepparents.  My daughters had stepparents.  The concept of stepparenting in our society is here to stay.
 
I was asked to write this post by another site guest who wondered, “Should stepparents discipline their stepchildren?”   It’s a tricky subject.  First it has to be decided what the concept of discipline is, [...]

I received a friendly email this week from from Chris Stanley, President of Idaho Falls Community Pathways. They are the ones behind the new crosswalk flags popping up around town.

Idaho Falls Today:
I wanted to make you aware of our organization, Idaho Falls Community Pathways, formed about a year ago. We are working [...]

Brad Stowell apparently violated his probation by not having a job, and getting a laptop. He’s back in prison now. My guess is that the parole board, after catching all the flack they caught, was looking for a reason to put him back in prison.
I’m glad he’s back behind bars. He has no business enjoying [...]

The new name of the website has now been updated, and Idahofallz.com is now the new IdahoFallsToday.com.
There have been a lot of work gone into the website in the past few months, including updating the website layout, menus and naivigation, adding a new newsletter subscription,

It’s taken them long enough fighting things out in the courts, but yesterday’s announcement by the Governor about the waste cleanup at the site must be a good thing, at least for Idaho.
Watching the news and seeing Cecil Andrus along with Phil Batt and Butch Otter praising the same thing, I thought to myself, “This [...]