Archive for July, 2008
Idaho Falls Community Pathways - Supporting People Powered Transportation!
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the newsletter or RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]
13,000 iPod Songs and Counting
I love music. I was raised on old country, Hank Williams Sr, Patsy Cline, etc. 50s doowop. I still like bluegrass, and folk music. I know all the 60s and 70s radio oldies by heart. By the 80s I was into the hard stuff, headbangin’ and big hair men. [...]
Our bikes were stolen :(
Sometime around the Fourth of July our family bikes were stolen from our backyard near Hawthorne Elementary in Idaho Falls.
Would you be for reducing the speed limit?
I was reading some different blogs and news sites this morning and found this story about Senator Warner from Virginia asking the federal government to determine what speed limit would optimize fuel efficiency given current technology… possibly hinting at a national speed limit.
Brad Stowell back in prison
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 [...]
Plant a Row for the Hungry
Apparently there is a national campaign for folks to plant extra garden rows of fresh produce and donate the extra food to the local food banks and homeless shelters. Fresh produce is a premium item, difficult to afford on a fixed budget, and donations of such are very welcome. It’s not something that [...]
Idahofallz.com becomes IdahoFallsToday.com
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,
Helicopter Parents
Helicopter parents are defined as those parents who have gone beyond devoted nurturing of their child or children into an extreme involvement of their life, particularly in the area concerning educational institutions. College administrators and professors reported this trend at the start of 2000.[1] The parents are not only at the university level, however; I [...]
Waste cleanup deal looking like a good move
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 [...]
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