Ethics
Child Molester Brad Stowell Walks Out Of Jail!
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the newsletter or RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The local news reported today that repeat child-molester Brad Stowell walked out of jail after serving only 3 years of a 14 year sentence. The story is here: http://www.kpvi.com/global/story.asp?s=8534099 .
Stowell has admitted to molesting over 24 boys at […]
Teacher’s Union President, Peggy Christensen, Wants District 93 to Stop Rewarding Teachers.
District 93 has finally started to recognize the great hard work that many teachers are doing. The district has recently given special recognition to dozens of teachers who have done outstanding at their job.
Forty one teachers were honored and received cash rewards from $500.00 to $4,000.00 for going above and beyond and […]
Should Authorities be Separating Mothers from their Children in the San Angelo Polygamist Community?
(Article submitted by volunteer writer: “Local Author”)
Admin Note: IdahoFallz.com has for some time has had a “no religious discussion” policy. It is a good policy to maintain. Let’s keep this the discussion away from religion and keep in on the legal accusations and police involvement – and what should and should not take […]
Three Steps to End Our War on Drugs
I am surprised nobody has yet written an article at IdahoFallz.com about America’s decades-old War on Drugs. I read many comments where site users express their desire to read and discuss the Drug War. I personally waited to write about it because people who bring up the topic tend to be quickly smeared as “another […]
Grass Roots Libertarianism
I am a registered Democrat, which has been a losing proposition in Idaho (especially Eastern Idaho) for me these past 25 years.
I started out as an ardent conservative Republican, but before my third presidential election I found I could no longer toe the party line. I couldn’t continue to support the idea that […]
Hostility to Homeowners-Why Bailouts Are Bogus
The agreement in the US Senate last Thursday to create new bipartisan housing legislation reflects pressure in Congress to tackle the mortgage crisis. Despite the emerging consensus among the parties in favour of more government intervention in the housing market, the final shape of the bill has been influenced by a curious coalition opposed to […]
Local News Station KPVI Stole My Work
This morning I discovered that our local NBC news affiliate KPVI published a news story on their website, and the graphic they used was stolen from my website, the IdahoFallz.com blog. You can see clearly from the attached images that they used my “IFPD” picture taken of an IFPD truck, originally published on IdahoFallz.com as […]
Is Citizen Journalism Useful or Important?
I see news stories and tidbit phenomena almost daily about citizen journalism (a.k.a. participatory media and many other titles). Normal, everyday people who have no journalistic base have been technologically and psychologically enabled by the Internet to become citizen journalists. What has it meant so far, and where do you think it could go from […]
How to not be stupid when dealing with technology
I hope to generate a meta-level discussion about wisdom and strategies when using technology. What I mean is we should discuss what technology means to us, how we need to adapt and re-orient our old frames-of-mind to the new digital world. Some things are radically different in technology, some things are the same. How to […]
How you can help solve the 1996 Angie Dodge murder
We are going to solve Idaho Falls’ 1996 Angie Raye Dodge murder. This is an extremely ambitious goal, but solving this murder is vital for a local family to get closure, for our community to finally know what happened, and possibly to expose official misdeeds at that time. The stakes are high to solve the […]
Should We Rebuild the Teton Dam?
I could not believe the news that our Idaho legislature has appropriated $400,000 to study whether the infamous Teton Dam should be rebuilt. The Teton Dam collapse and subsequent flood was the worst disaster ever in southeast Idaho’s modern recorded history. Five southeast Idaho counties were declared federal disaster areas by President Gerald Ford. I’m […]
Charles Manson’s Helter Skelter Revisited
A lot happened in 1969 - we (allegedly, at least) landed on the moon, Dwight D. Eisenhower, boxer Rocky Marciano, Judy Garland, Jack Kerouac, and Boris Karloff all died, the US population hit 200 million, the Saturday Evening Post published for the last time, the Boeing 747 made its first commercial flight, at least 28 […]
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