Boise, Idaho News

Murphy: The Vandals' long-term goal: Sustain success

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:13:50 +0000

The Idaho Vandals are bowl eligible for the first time in a decade, and third-year coach Robb Akey is resuscitating a morbid program stung by coaching departures and poor play.

Family will remember fallen Idaho soldier

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:03:50 +0000

KIMBERLY - The public is invited to a viewing next week for Army Chief Warrant Officer Mathew C. Hef

Enforcement eases dog problems in the Foothills

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:03:50 +0000

Dog owners have gotten a break. The City Council has no plans to limit off leash dog use in the Foothills, and Parks and Rec is soliticing public comment on more dog parks.

Lawyer doubts bar will discipline Blake Hall

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:03:50 +0000

Blake Hall's misdemeanor stalking conviction and a police report alleging he returned a former client's legal fee and subsequently had sex with her are unlikely to prompt any disciplinary action, David Leroy says.

Home sales rise while the number of houses on the market declines

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:03:50 +0000

The supply of homes in the Treasure Valley market is now the lowest it has been since mid-2006.

Veterans remember decades of service

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:02:29 +0000

Gornick served in the United States Air Force in China, Germany and for the top secret SR-71 Blackbird Program, just to name a few.

UofI AD refuses Bronco plane seat

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:58:23 +0000

I Wonder: Where did Treasure Valley get its name?

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:28:23 +0000

Veterans Day Celebration

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:47:29 +0000

Residents throughout the Treasure Valley gather to remember those who served.

Homeless suit prompts closer look at Boise law

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:02:29 +0000

Officials are taker a closer look at the city's 'camping' law after being sued by a group of homeless people .

WSU graduate left for dead in middle of road

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:02:29 +0000

Whitman County sheriff's deputies say 23-year-old Kristen Grindly was found unconscious in a pool of blood early Wednesday morning.

House candidate mulling ties to jailed GOP fundraiser

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:58:23 +0000

Portland Public Transit Provides Lesson for Boise, Pundit Warns

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:56:25 MST

Public transit, such as Boise's proposed streetcar, is bad for the economy and bad for the environment. Just ask Randal O'Toole, who works on urban growth, public land, and transportation issues at the Cato Institute, and who spoke in Boise today about public transit, particularly in Portland. By the way, O'Toole also believes that urban planners caused the recession, that they're using social engineering to try to turn the U.S. Communist, and that all roads should be privately owned.

Hewlett Packard to buy 3Com for $2.7 billion

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:43:33 +0000

Military rituals; from where did they come?

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:43:23 +0000

Hewlett Packard to buy 3Com for $2.7 billion

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:17:30 +0000

HP also issued a preliminary report Wednesday for the three months that ended in October, saying it earned 99 cents per share, compared with 84 cents in the year-ago period.

Highway 16 fatal crash rate above state average

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:43:56 +0000

Fatal crashes on Highway 16 between 2004 and 2008 were above the state average, according to the Idaho Transportation Department Office of Highway Safety.

Black Canyon Canal drowning victim identified more than three years later

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:32:39 +0000

More than three years after Jose Perez-Miranda, 19, drowned in the Black Canyon Canal, his remains were positively identified, Gem County Corner John Buck announced on Friday. Perez-Miranda died on June 27, 2006, when he and a group of friends came to Gem County from Middleton for a summer outing.

Help feed Gem families

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:32:26 +0000

During the holiday season, help Albertsons feed local families and get two chances to dunk your favorite law enforcement officer or teacher in a community fundraising event.

Locals honor veterans

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:32:14 +0000

A Veterans Day program will take place today, Nov. 11, at 10:15 a.m. in the gym at Emmett High School, 721 W. 12th St. All veterans, their families and community members are invited to attend.

Two retain city council spots; voters seat Welch

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:32:07 +0000

At 15.4 percent, voter turnout for the Emmett City Council on Nov. 3 ran about average for the state. (Erika Harmon / Messenger Index) With a voter turnout that was just over 15 percent, three people were chosen on Nov. 3 to serve on the Emmett City Council.

Good News for Boise State's Idaho Review and Denver Music Writer Steve Knopper

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:05:27 MST

Economic conditions and their implications for the book industry continue to be dire, and yet I have mostly good news to report this week. • First, several prestigious literary magazines across the nation are facing budget cuts or conversion to online-only publication, including the New England Review, TriQuarterly, and The Southern Review, but in Boise, according to Idaho Review editor Mitch Wieland in an interview with Boise Weekly, "While other universities are cutting their budgets for their literary magazines, the administration here at [Boise State] has actually increased our funding in support of what we do." Wieland spoke to Bill English of Boise Weekly last month on the occasion of the publication of The Idaho Review's tenth anniversary issue. It didn't take long for The Idaho Review to vault into the top tier of literary magazines, with its stories and essays regularly winning national awards. Writer and Boise State teacher Alan Heathcock told the Boise Weekly: "The success of The Idaho Review is all Mitch Wieland. Every journal in the country is writing letters to big name writers, asking them to send work. Mitch has some special charm that when he asks Rick Bass, William Kittredge or Ann Beattie, they not only send work, but they send great work. Ten years ago, Boise State didn't even have a writing program, and now is known nationwide largely because of the reach and reputation of The Idaho Review." • My second bit of good news: Bill Husted, gossip columnist for the Denver Post, reported Sunday, "HBO is developing a movie based on Denver author Steve Knopper's book Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age." Also in the Roundup: How the boxer Rocky inspires writer Benjamin Percy, a vintage Cormac McCarthy ad in Dwight Garner's Read Me, and how books by women were left off a key best-of-the-year book list.

Is UM Green Enough? Yes, and Growing Greener

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:10:35 MST

UM has now launched its new Climate Change Studies minor program, the first of its kind in the nation. Last spring, the Green Thread Initiative held its first workshop to help professors introduce climate and sustainability topics into their curriculum, allowing more environmental dialogue throughout campus. Faculty members across campus are directly addressing different aspects of climate change in their own work, creating an interdisciplinary curriculum and minor through departments from economics to journalism, forestry to ethics, and science to law. Students like me are gaining valuable skills through this strong education in science, society, and solutions to climate change. The Environmental Studies Department is even funding two of us to represent UM at the international climate treaties in Copenhagen this December. My environmental studies major together with this climate minor are providing me critical advocacy skills, and I know that I am not the only student that UM has helped become empowered in enacting change.

It's a License Plate--It's Supposed To Be Boring

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:17:53 MST

I love art. You love art. John loves art. We all love art. But a vehicle's license plate is no place for art. That's what I've been bitching about for years in Montana, as the debate periodically bubbles up about the ever-fancier license plate design. "I want more clouds." "I want more buffalo." "Too much blue." "I don't like the slogan." "It needs to be 3-D and have a vampire." Wise up, critics. Look, if you need to drive around with a Dolack displayed on your vehicle, put one on the rear window. Or paint some ducks in a tub on your hood. Or, better yet, express yourself with a clever vanity plate. How's this one: UB6IB9. Or this: 4NIK8R. Don't like those? Well, UPURZ2. That takes a whole lot more imagination than plopping down an extra fifty bones for a license plate that looks like something out of an Eddie Bauer catalog.

A Note from the Frog/Pond Interface

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:48:55 MST

Individuals may differ on whether they prefer a metaphorical existence as relatively small creatures in large, imposing bodies of water (like Seattle, for example), or massively important animals in puddles whose global significance is less evident (except to them, perhaps). In the latter, one person's action can make a substantial difference, as it did last week in Hope, Idaho (pop. 86). Voting numbers here are on a whole different scale than those that pop up on John King's magic map on CNN, and the tax override levy in Hope was a vote that King did not cover. But it was an important issue for residents of this lakeside burg, whose municipal coffers have long depended on receipts from logging 120 acres of timberland that it owns. With rising costs in the town and falling fortunes in the timber market, an alternative source of revenue had become essential.