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Guns and Chocolate Chip Cookies: The Answer to America’s Problems?
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the newsletter or RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!One fairly hot topic around the country and in Eastern Idaho is the Issue of Gun Control. Always sure to warm things up, just bring this topic up at your next company picnic. The topic [...]
Kudos to Idaho Falls media in clearing reputation
It was nice to see two local news media, the Post Register and KIFI TV 8, prominently report that Idaho Falls airport director Mike Humberd was cleared of any wrongdoing in a sexual harrassment investigation. The investigation was widely reported when it first broke, but rarely do media follow up with findings of innocence, especially [...]
Seanelle Hanson shares lemonade
What an inspiration Seanelle Hanson is to our community! As the Post Register reported, her teen son Zakk drowned in our stretch of the Snake River last summer. Rather than lose herself in pity, she fundraised $50,000 for three county search and rescue teams. That is a lot of money! Apparently the rescuers searched for [...]
Thank you Frank Vandersloot for the Awesome Fireworks
Love him or hate him, agree or disagree with his politics, buy or don’t buy his $4 soap bars, I think Frank Vandersloot has done a great thing for Idaho Falls with his annual fireworks show on the fourth of July.
Sure it’s a blatant advertisement for Melaleuca (even renaming it the ‘Melaleuca Freedom Celebration’). [...]
Idaho Falls needs distinctive welcome signs
The current signs welcoming people into Idaho Falls city limits just aren’t cutting it anymore. They are the same default, bland, green highway signs that any wide spot in the road gets (like Ririe or Bone). It lists our city name, population, and a warning that permits are needed. Blah!
This problem seems to be part [...]
Idaho Falls Kite Week April 24 - 30, 2006
Mayor Fuhriman has declared April 24th thru the 30th to be Idaho Falls Kite Week in an effort to encourage more people to get out and use our community parks. I spoke with Dean Turnblom of Sunrise Kites (460 Cleveland St) and found out a little more about the grades of kites available, some [...]
Stephen King’s Cell is a scary call
I just read the newest Stephen King novel, Cell, in only three days. It was excellent, captivating, and the story pulled me through quickly. I highly recommend reading it.
Stephen King seems to write two genre: horror stories and human stories. An example of his human stories is The Shawshank Redemption. Cell definitely falls into the [...]
Of Grandmas and Mexicans
The debate over immigration has been raging nationally and locally. I have Hispanic friends who carry one perspective, and white family and friends who carry opposite perspectives. I do not pretend to know what is right or the solutions, but I will try to explore some of them here and hopefully others will comment in [...]
How would Idaho Falls fare in an oil crisis?
A recent report compares the sustainability (essentially survivability) of various U.S. cities in the event of an oil crisis (shortage or skyrocketing prices).
The cities that would likely survive better in an oil crisis include San Francisco, Boston, and New York City. The reasons they would survive better include work commute distances and alternatives, regional [...]
You know you are an Idahoan when
More Jeff Foxworthy-type observations, and again don’t know if he said them, but they are quite true.
You know you are a true Idahoan when:
“Vacation” means going east or west on I-84 for the weekend.
You measure distance in hours.
You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
You often switch from “heat” to “A/C” [...]
You might live in Idaho
It has been awhile since I’ve seen this, and I do not know if Jeff Foxworthy really wrote it, but it hits close to home anyways.
If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, [...]
Porn industry lured to Idaho Falls
Idaho’s efforts to lure film makers to the gem state have started bearing fruit with several pornography video production companies setting up offices around the Idaho Falls area. One pornographer described the Idaho Falls area as a perfect location for the skin industry, citing Idaho’s new film making tax credits, plenty of healthy beautiful girls, [...]
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