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Peter Zuckerman wins national award for Scout’s Honor
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the newsletter or RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Peter Zuckerman was reported to have won a prestigious $10,000 award for his Scout’s Honor story that stirred up so much angst in southeast Idaho. None other than the famous Charles Gibson (ABC News) presented the Livingston [...]
Local teens can sell water for summer cash
Idaho Falls teens often complain there’s a lack of jobs available to them here. Try this simple idea: selling bottled water.
The idea comes from this entrepreneur’s blog, and is basically buy cheap cases of bottled water and a bag of ice. Throw them in the family cooler and write “ICE COLD WATER $1″ in [...]
Idaho Falls Fight Club
A straightforward idea to settle disputes among consenting adults and reduce aggression.
Is there one already? We know the first two rules are not to talk about Idaho Falls Fight Club, but how about a hint?
Legality, even among consenting adults?
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Post Register profiles those who overcome adversity
I wanted to give kudos to our local Post Register for the local student stories they profile all year round, and especially at graduation time. Yesterday I admired how Bonneville senior Raul Carreno is graduating high school but couldn’t speak any English just two years ago. Today I admired how Idaho Falls senior Tony Jenkins [...]
Video Game Arcade 2.0 in Idaho Falls
Videogame arcades are pretty much history, the remaining ones now focus more on carnival-style games and collecting tickets and redeeming prizes. The reason is because home video consoles like Xbox, Playstation, and Nintendo enable so much more gaming experience than the standalone game cabinets could.
Could a new style arcade be run with these home [...]
Idaho Falls City Website Overdue for Overhaul
Anyone check out our Idaho Falls city website lately? You can see that it is long overdue for a redesign.
There is just not much information provided on the main page, which effectively makes it a ’splash page’, which went out of style years ago. Some of the links need fixing (clicking ‘Events Calendars’ takes you [...]
Waive state income tax for college graduates
Idaho seems to have less a problem with high school dropouts than with our kids dropping out of college or not going at all.
I propose a revolutionary solution: waive Idaho state income taxes for the year that any student earns an associate, bachelor, or master degree from an accredited Idaho higher education institution.
This solution would [...]
The time is ripe for Thunder Ridge 2.0
Anyone remember Thunder Ridge? If you can believe it, there it used to be a swimming resort and miniature golf course up in the foothills east of Idaho Falls. The swimming part had a large pool and a big blue tube to swim down the hill. I spent many summers there as a kid, and [...]
Rapping about po-ta-toes
Keeping with the Idaho themes, here is a neat flash animation and rap about wonderful potatoes. Safe for workplace viewing.
Update: link posted a few days ago was incorrect, it goes to the correct place now.
“Boil-em, mash-em, stick-em in a stew…”
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Idaho Falls Beltway is probably too far away
I have heard a few people talk about building a beltway around Idaho Falls. For those of you not familiar with the urban planning term, a beltway is basically a freeway that wraps around a city in a circle. They are usually added to poorly planned cities where traffic has become unbearable. Instead of taking [...]
State Capital Moves to Idaho Falls
The last days of the 2006 Idaho state legislative session proved surprising as the official state capital was changed from Boise to Idaho Falls. The state constitution, seal, flag, and a cardboard box of other historical state artifacts were smuggled across the valley in the middle of the night. This move was similar to the [...]
Grand Theft Auto Idaho Falls
Awhile ago, I challenged anyone to build a Sim-city model of Idaho Falls. Now I challenge someone to build a virtual model of Idaho Falls that can be used in video games, like first-person shooters. Imagine building the virtual model of Idaho Falls, then programming your own video game like Grand Theft Auto where you [...]
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