Sunday, December 30, 2007

Ketchum, Idaho: A Five-Star Dilemma

http://www.newwest.net/snow_blog/article/a_five_star_dilemma/C458/L41/

Monday, December 10, 2007

The Visible Man: An FBI Target Puts His Whole Life Online

http://teamsugar.com/group/30094/blog/277652

"So it dawned on him: If being candid about his flights could clear his name, why not be open about everything? "I've discovered that the best way to protect your privacy is to give it away," he says, grinning as he sips his venti Black Eye. Elahi relishes upending the received wisdom about surveillance. The government monitors your movements, but it gets things wrong. You can monitor yourself much more accurately. Plus, no ambitious agent is going to score a big intelligence triumph by snooping into your movements when there's a Web page broadcasting the Big Mac you ate four minutes ago in Boise, Idaho. "It's economics," he says. "I flood the market.""

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Frederick Wells at ISU

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17438347/how_america_lost_the_war_on_drugs/printIn

"October 2006, police in Guadalajara arrested an American chemist named Frederick Wells, who had moved to Mexico after losing his job at Idaho State University. An academic troublemaker who drove around campus with signs on the back of his pickup truck raging at the college administration, Wells had allegedly used his university lab to investigate new ways that Mexican traffickers could use completely legal reagents to engineer meth precursors from scratch. "Very complicated numerical modeling," says his academic colleague Jeff Rosentreter. By the time Wells was arrested, the State Department had only just succeeded at pressuring Mexico to restrict the flow of pseudoephedrine, even though Wells had apparently been hard at work for years creating alternatives to that chemical. The lobbying by the pharmaceutical industry, Haislip says, "cost us eight or nine years.""

Thursday, September 27, 2007

No end in sight for Idaho's growth

USA TODAY article:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-09-26-Idaho_N.htm

"Idaho has drawn national attention from the recent sex-sting arrest of Larry Craig, its senior U.S. senator, and, in the 1990s, from occasional standoffs between law enforcement and white supremacists. What's less known is that Idaho has been competing with Arizona, Nevada and Florida to be the USA's most vibrant boom state. And unlike those hot-weather states, Idaho is having a boom that shows little sign of fading."

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Spudtacular news


http://www.boiseweekly.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A307404

"Were you disappointed that North Dakota was able to sign a potato deal with Cuba first?


No. They have wanted Idaho there for a long time. Castro and his organization are going to work with all the states for a variety of different products because they'd like to open up regular trade relations with the U.S. It works to his benefit to work with all the states that are willing to work with him. Let's put it this way. Back 70 years ago, Maine was the No. 1 potato-growing region in the United States. So they were first, but that didn't stop us from becoming No. 1."

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Rambling cowboy family finds home in the Pahsimeroi


"A family with an old-fashioned cowboy lifestyle is taking a break after being on the road together for the past nine years.

John, Micha and Zar Hallam are hanging their hats locally and calling this area home, at least for the winter.

They were passing through Grangeville recently, with their packstring of a dozen horses and two dogs, when a local pastor hooked them up with a Pahsimeroi Valley ranch owner. The family likes the wide open, relatively unpopulated surroundings of Custer County, so they took a job managing the ranch for an absentee owner."



click here for rest of Challis Messenger story by Todd Adams:

http://www.challismessenger.com/index.php?accnum=story-21-20070906

Friday, August 17, 2007

Montana, keep your hands off Yellowstone

"Last year, "Sunset" magazine reported that Yellowstone was in Montana. A tourism official in that state made light of the error, saying, "Montana, Idaho and Wyoming -- we all claim the park.""

http://www.trib.com/articles/2007/08/16/editorial/editorial/9fe3f14a14eaf81787257338008387ae.txt

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Yellow Pine resists 'Mandatory' evacuation


http://www.idahostatesman.com/eyepiece/story/133293.html

"What the statute says is that the governor can compel you to leave. But we don't have enough handcuffs, we don't have enough cars," the Valley County sheriff's deputy said to laughs from an anxious crowd. "You guys are adults, and you can make the call."

Friday, July 27, 2007

New Coffee Shop to feature bikini clad baristas



And I thought "The Zany Barista Tully Starbucks Grinds Company Java for Golden Cowboy's at Uptown Hitchracks" was cutting edge!

Tuesday, July 10, 2007